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      More KDE Plasma Wayland Fixes Land, Continued Improvements For Plasma 6

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 August, 2023

    Yesterday KDE developer Nate Graham outlined the progress with the Plasma 6 desktop while out today he's out with his usual blog post that highlights the various KDE changes to have been merged over the past week...
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      Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Merged Into Mesa 23.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 August, 2023

    The NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver has finally been merged into mainline Mesa for easing development of this driver moving forward...
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      Intel Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake Sound Support Ongoing With Linux 6.6

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 August, 2023

    Back in Linux 6.4 there were Intel HD audio additions for Lunar Lake processors, ACE2.x integration with Lunar Lake has also been worked on as part of the SoundWire support, and also early preparations on the Sound Open Firmware side. With Linux 6.6 there are more audio bits coming together for Lunar Lake and Arrow Lake processors...
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      ClamAV 1.2 Adding Support For UDF Partitions, New systemd Timer

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 August, 2023

    For those making use of the open-source, cross-platform ClamAV anti-virus/anti-malware software backed by Cisco, the first release candidate of ClamAV 1.2 is now available for testing...
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      KDE Neon Experimental Lets You Run Plasma 6 With KF6 Apps Today

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 August, 2023

    With KDE Plasma 6 development going well and a beta potentially in a few months, the KDE Neon Linux distribution crew has created a new archive with the latest Plasma 6 and KDE Frameworks 6 components to help developers and enthusiasts in testing out this leading-edge open-source desktop code...
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      Azure Provides Excellent HPC Cloud Performance With HBv4 Series Powered By AMD EPYC Genoa-X

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 August, 2023

    The past several weeks at Phoronix has been very exciting with benchmarking AMD EPYC Genoa-X processors (along with Bergamo) and the incredible uplift delivered by these latest AMD server processors. But for those not yet having the opportunity to test the new EPYC Genoa-X processors locally, those wishing to evaluate the Genoa-X capabilities in the public cloud prior to making an investment in these high-end server processors with 3D V-Cache, or those simply preferring the ease of cloud infrastructure, Azure's new HBv4 series provide an excellent route for leveraging AMD Genoa-X compute capabilities in the cloud. Here are benchmarks of the new Azure HBv4 powered by EPYC Genoa-X compared to prior Azure HPC VMs. The Azure HBv4 performance is outstanding with incredible generational uplift and leading value among Microsoft's HPC-focused VMs.
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      Intel Graphics With Linux 6.6 Adds Tuning Knobs That Can Yield 10~15% Better Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 August, 2023

    With new i915 driver code ready for the upcoming Linux 6.6, new threshold tuning around the RPS (cited as both Render P-States and Requested Power States) for some Intel graphics hardware and in some games can yield around a 10~15% boost to performance...
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      New Linux Optimization Patches Reduced TLB Flushes By Over 50% In Some Cases

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 August, 2023

    SK engineer Byungchul Park noticed costly migration overhead especially with TLB shoot-downs hurting performance while he was working with Compute Express Link (CXL) on Linux. That led to some optimization patches to reduce TLB flushes under some select cases that in turn led to a 50% reduction in full flushes and has the possibility of helping performance...
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      KDE Plasma 6 Development Progressing Well, Plasma 6 Beta Possible In A Few Months

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 August, 2023

    Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham has published a lengthy blog post outlining the current state of the Plasma 6 desktop, what code porting work has wrapped up, and what major tasks remain before Plasma 6.0 can advance onto its beta and then release phase...