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      GNU Shepherd 0.10.2 Service Manager Fixes Some Long-Standing Issues

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 July, 2023

    GNU Shepherd is the Guile-written service manager for handling daemons that is most notably used by the GNU Guix project as an alternative to the likes of SysV and systemd. With today's GNU Shepherd 0.10.2 some long-standing issues have finally been resolved...
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      Intel Arc Graphics Enjoy Nice ~10% Speedup With Recent Open-Source Linux Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 July, 2023

    Merged to Mesa 23.2-devel recently was an Intel Arc Graphics driver change to improve performance. This ended up being a rather significant improvement to performance and in today's article is a look at the performance impact of the recent Mesa work by Intel engineers to better the Arc Graphics family.
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      More MIDI 2.0 Code Being Worked On For The Linux Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 July, 2023

    Merged for Linux 6.5 was initial MIDI 2.0 support for the necessary USB audio and raw MIDI drivers to support this major MIDI update. Being worked on now for merging into a future kernel release is the USB gadget driver support around MIDI 2.0...
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      Supermicro Hyper SuperServer SYS-221H-TNR / X13DEM Working Well For Dual Socket Xeon Max

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 July, 2023

    With the Intel Xeon Max testing at Phoronix that's been ongoing so far for the past month on Phoronix has all been done within the Supermicro Hyper SuperServer SYS-221H-TNR rackmount server. This 2U dual socket platform for 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors has been working out well and provides a robust feature set while working out well for all of my Linux testing thus far.
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      Mesa Fixes A Large Performance Regression For Systems Using HPET

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 July, 2023

    The High Precision Event Timer (HPET) has long been a source of issues for Linux developers and it turns out systems relying on HPET rather than the CPU's TSC have in recent months suffered significant performance degradation with the Mesa OpenGL driver code...
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      AMD GFX1150 & GFX1151 Targets Being Added To AMDGPU LLVM Backend

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 July, 2023

    New AMDGPU targets seeing the initial plumbing merged today for LLVM 17 are GFX1150 and GFX1151 as upcoming AMD APU products...
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      GNU Boot 20230717 Released For Freeing The Firmware On Some Old Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 July, 2023

    GNU Boot 20230717 has been released as the fork of Libreboot that in turn is a downstream of Coreboot focused on providing system firmware support only where they are fully free software. With GNU Boot the game is upped further by removing select motherboard ports and documentation where they do not comply with the GNU System Distribution Guidelines...
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      Arch Linux Installer Archinstall 2.6 Preparing New Features

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 July, 2023

    For two years now Arch Linux's official install media has been shipping with archinstall as a nice, text-based installer for more quickly setting up an Arch Linux environment. In preparation for release now is Archinstall 2.6 as the next feature release while available for testing today is the release candidate...
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      Meson 1.2 Build System Released

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 July, 2023

    Meson 1.2 was released on Sunday as the newest feature release for this wildly popular, cross-platform build system that has become widely used by open-source projects as a superior alternative to GNU Automake and other solutions...