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The ollama open-source software that makes it easy to run AI large language models (LLMs) across different operating systems, hardware, and models is about to enjoy a nice speed boost.

The ollama 0.11.9-rc0 test release was christened a short time ago and comes with a nice performance improvement. This next release of ollama is bringing improved performance by overlapping GPU and CPU computations.

This ollama optimization comes from VMware engineer Daniel Hiltgen and is to build the graph for the next batch asynchronously

SDL Merges X11TK: A Basic X11 Toolkit

Phoronix | Sept. 2, 2025, 5:18 p.m. | Original

It looks like the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) library widely used by cross-platform games for software/hardware abstractions isn't done enhancing its support for running on the X.Org/X11 Server. Similarly, Valve is still committing resources to enhancing the support.

Merged today to SDL3 Git is the introduction of X11TK, an X11 toolkit for the SDL library. Developer Mike Eafton commented when the pull request was opened:

"This PR introduces a "toolkit" for

Fedora ARM Release Changes Due To Red Hat QA Team Reduction

Phoronix | Sept. 2, 2025, 3:42 p.m. | Original

Due to a "significant portion" of Red Hat's internal QA team responsible for Fedora QA leaving the company or switching to other teams at Red Hat, there are some Fedora ARM release changes coming to deal with the reduced abilities of their quality assurance team.

Back in July was the announcement of the Fedora Quality/QA team needing to reduce its scope of operations due to a number of those on Red Hat's internal team leaving the company or switching teams. In particular, some switching to work on AI

AMD "sbtsi_temp" Driver Being Updated For Linux 6.18 To Handle Freezing CPU Temperatures

Phoronix | Sept. 2, 2025, 2:50 p.m. | Original

Two years ago the AMD Linux CPU temperature driver was updated to handle negative temperature reporting . That's for some users with exotic cooling systems and then also use within some industrial applications where the systems may be subject to sub-zero temperatures. The AMD sbtsi_temp driver is also now being similarly updated for handling freezing CPU temperatures.

The sbtsi_temp Linux driver is for the Sideband Interface (SBI) temperature sensor interface (SB-TSI). The AMD Sideband Interface is predominantly used for EPYC server processors and

NVIDIA 580.82.07 Driver Brings Fix For Vulkan On Wayland, Smooth Motion For RTX 40

Phoronix | Sept. 2, 2025, 1:41 p.m. | Original

NVIDIA just released the 580.82.07 stable Linux driver as their newest R580 driver series update.

There are just a few changes with the NVIDIA 580.82.07 Linux driver update but they are notable. First up, there is a fix for an earlier R580 regression that could cause Vulkan applications to hang when running under Wayland.

The other notable item is adding support for NVIDIA Smooth Motion on GeForce RTX 40 series graphics cards.

LLVM Clang 21 Compiler Helping Squeeze More Performance On 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin"

Phoronix | Sept. 2, 2025, 10:42 a.m. | Original

With LLVM 21.1 having been released last week as the newest half-year feature update to this open-source compiler stack, I have begun benchmarking Clang 21 on a variety of systems for getting a feel for the performance over Clang 20. Eventually it will be extended as well to looking at the Clang 21 performance against GCC and vendor compilers. For some initial Clang 21 benchmarking, here is a look at how the Clang 21 C/C++ compiler is performing on 5

Arch Linux's Archinstall No Longer Treating LVM-Based Installs As "Beta"

Phoronix | Sept. 2, 2025, 9:12 a.m. | Original

Arch Linux's convenient text-based OS installer "archinstall" is out with a new release today that promotes Logical Volume Manager (LVM) based installs no longer as "beta" quality.

Archinstall 3.0.10 is now available and most notable is removing the "beta" flag from the LVM install options. The pull request removing the beta label from LVM on Archinstall had the comment last month:

"I think this has been soaking long enough to remove the (Beta) from the LVM menu

sudo-rs Is Now The Default sudo Of Ubuntu 25.10

Phoronix | Sept. 2, 2025, 8:30 a.m. | Original

Earlier this year Canonical announced plans for using sudo-rs as the Rust-written sudo implementation by default for Ubuntu 25.10 along with Rust Coreutils and other Rust system components . The sudo-rs goal has been achieved with the newest Ubuntu 25.10 daily ISOs now using this sudo implementation by default.

Canonical engineer Ravi Kant Sharma announced today that sudo-rs is now the default for Questing Quokka, the codename for Ubuntu 25.10. sudo-rs is the default sudo

New GIMP Plug-In Integrates Google Gemini AI Image Creation

Phoronix | Sept. 2, 2025, 6:44 a.m. | Original

Separate from yesterday's upstream new GIMP 3.2 development release , open-source developer Josh Ellithorpe announced the creation of a new GIMP plug-in dubbed "Dream Prompter" for bringing the power of Google's Gemini 2.5 Flash Image Preview model to this open-source photo/image editing software.

Google recently announced Gemini 2.5 Flash Image (Nano Banana) as their latest efforts for an AI image editing model. The Dream Prompter plug-in for GIMP brings the power of that Gemini

FFmpeg swscale Rewrite Begins Landing With 2.6x Faster Overall, As Much As 254x

Phoronix | Sept. 2, 2025, 6:27 a.m. | Original

Now that FFmpeg 8.0 has shipped for this widely-used multimedia library, development is back on of major feature work toward the next major release. Landing on Monday was the initial code for a major rewrite to the swscale code in providing a new framework that is faster and more maintainable/extensible moving forward.

FFmpeg's swscale/libswscale code is used for image scaling, colorspace conversion, and related operations. FFmpeg developer Niklas Haas has spent the past few months working on a new framework around swscale. This

ollama 0.11.9 Introducing A Nice CPU/GPU Performance Optimization

SDL Merges X11TK: A Basic X11 Toolkit

Fedora ARM Release Changes Due To Red Hat QA Team Reduction

AMD "sbtsi_temp" Driver Being Updated For Linux 6.18 To Handle Freezing CPU Temperatures

NVIDIA 580.82.07 Driver Brings Fix For Vulkan On Wayland, Smooth Motion For RTX 40

LLVM Clang 21 Compiler Helping Squeeze More Performance On 5th Gen AMD EPYC "Turin"

Arch Linux's Archinstall No Longer Treating LVM-Based Installs As "Beta"

sudo-rs Is Now The Default sudo Of Ubuntu 25.10

New GIMP Plug-In Integrates Google Gemini AI Image Creation

FFmpeg swscale Rewrite Begins Landing With 2.6x Faster Overall, As Much As 254x

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