Salvatore Dipietro of Amazon/AWS reported a throughput and latency regression for PostgreSQL. They found Linux 7.0 in its near-final form delivering around 0.51x the
AWS Engineer Reports PostgreSQL Performance Halved By Linux 7.0, But A Fix May Not Be Easy
Salvatore Dipietro of Amazon/AWS reported a throughput and latency regression for PostgreSQL. They found Linux 7.0 in its near-final form delivering around 0.51x the
3mdeb Makes Progress Bringing AMD openSIL + Coreboot To Ryzen AM5 Motherboard
Back in February was the announcement by 3mdeb that they are bringing Coreboot and openSIL to a consumer AM5 motherboard and in turn their commercial Coreboot-based Dasharo firmware offering
2D CAD Design Tool For GNOME Desktop Lands More Features
The new Design release brings polyline trim, polyline extend, chamfer command, fillet command, and a variety of other CAD commands now being supported. There is also better performance when panning and other enhancements. Design is written in part with JavaScript.
KDE's KWin Continues Working On Vulkan Support, Other Improvements For Plasma 6.7
This Week in Plasma is out with its newest issue for highlighting all the interesting developments of the week. This week some of the most notable Plasma 6.7 changes included:
OpenRazer 3.12.1 Enables Two More Razer Devices Under Linux
OpenRazer 3.12.1 adds support for the Razer Basilisk Mobile gaming mouse. OpenRazer supports the Basilisk Mobile with both its wired and wireless receiver modes. This gaming mouse retails for around $90 USD from the likes of Amazon (affiliate link
Wine 11.6 Begins Reviving Its Android Driver
Notable with Wine 11.6 is that it has begun reviving its Android driver. Wine for Android hasn't seen too much work in recent time. Back in 2024 was talk of Wine on Android with DXVK/VKD3D-Proton plus FEX for running Windows games on Android but not too much on that
Redox OS Introducing New CPU Scheduler For ~1.5x Performance In Heavy Tasks
Redox Summer of Code funded the work on creating a new CPU scheduler to replace their legacy Round Robin scheduler. With this new scheduler they have found a ~1.5x gain in operations/sec for CPU bound tasks and similar improvements in responsiveness too.
Deficit Weighted Round Robin Scheduler (DWRR) is their new
Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.32 Adds Wildcat Lake Support
With the Linux NPU Driver 1.32 release is now official support for the upcoming Wildcat Lake platform as a cut-down version of Panther Lake. Going back to last year was already Wildcat Lake support for the IVPU kernel driver while now the NPU user mode driver components are also now ready for Wildcat Lake.
CachyOS Delivers More Performance Out Of Intel Panther Lake
Most of my Intel Panther Lake benchmarking over the past two months for the new Core Ultra Series 3 hardware has been done with Ubuntu Linux given the pervasiveness of it, especially in the corporate/enterprise space. But for those looking at achieving even greater out-of-the-box Linux performance on Intel Panther Lake, the Arch Linux based CachyOS does a pretty fine job at further advancing the performance.
Gentoo Releases Experimental Images Using GNU/Hurd
Gentoo GNU/Hurd images are now available for those wanting to test a Gentoo + Hurd combination within a virtual machine. But don't expect to get too far if wanting to run on real modern hardware given the constraints of Hurd. Gentoo GNU/Hurd is akin to