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With Ubuntu looking at applying their low-latency optimizations to their generic kernel builds in order to eliminate maintaining their existing 'lowlatency' kernel option, I decided to run some fresh benchmarks looking at the performance impact of their low-latency kernel against their 'generic' default kernel used on Ubuntu Linux systems.

For AMD Zen 2 and newer systems making use of the modern AMD P-State driver on Linux for CPU frequency scaling, ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) interface is being used

While there is the initial Wine Wayland driver found in the recently minted Wine 9.0 stable release, the driver isn't yet complete for offering a native Wayland experience for Windows games and applications running on Linux.

Merged today to Wayland-Protocols is xdg-toplevel-drag, the protocol that's been under discussion for the past nine months for handling applications that request a window is moved at the same time as a drag operation.

AMD's GPUOpen crew today released HIP RT 2.2 as the newest version of this ray-tracing library for HIP.

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.8-rc2 as the newest weekly test release of this kernel set to debut as stable in March.

Ubuntu has long provided a 'low-latency' kernel build intended for industrial embedded systems and other latency sensitive environments

While a number of Linux distributions are experimenting with x86-64-v2 baselines or offering x86-64-v3 optimized packages for assuming AVX/AVX2 support by default for their packages, the CachyOS Linux distribution has been experimenting with offering x86-64-v4 packages for those running on Intel or AMD systems with AVX-512 support.

GTK recently merged their new 'unified' rendering code with a focus on Vulkan API support and where Linux distributions are now encouraged to build with the Vulkan renderer

Nick Clifton with Red Hat announced today the release of GNU Binutils 2.42, the newest feature release to this collection of binary utilities widely relied upon by Linux and Unix-like systems as part of the compiler toolchain.