CachyOS Introduces New Repository Optimized for AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5 CPUs - 9to5Linux
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Latest CachyOS release introduces a new repository optimized for AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5 CPUs, installer improvements, and more.

A new CachyOS snapshot for July 2024 is out today with various improvements and some exciting new features, especially for AMD users, as well as the usual bug fixes and other changes to improve your experience.

Starting with this release, CachyOS will automatically enable a software repository on new installations that will be used to provide the best performance for AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5 machines. In addition, the ISO now features automatic architecture checks for the Zen 4/Zen 5 repository and CachyOS’s hardware detection tool (chwd) received support for AMD GPUs for better detection of official ROCm-supported GPUs.

    • @[email protected]
      8•4 months ago

      It’s a customized Arch Linux. Basically manjaro, but with XFS BTRFS file system (as mentioned in the release note )

      BTRFS is now the default selected file system instead of XFS. The XFS file system and all others can still be selected by the users and configured.

      It used to default to XFS, according to ZDNet

      CachyOS gets part of its speed by defaulting to the XFS file system. This is a curious choice for a desktop file system, I’d argue, mostly because XFS is a journaling file system designed to support very large files and ensure the file system’s integrity in the case of system crashes. XFS has been around since the early '90s and has been employed by large servers and storage arrays. - zdnet.com

      if you’ve already been exposed to Linux and are looking to jump on board the Arch Linux train, CachyOS is a great option.

      • featured [he/him]
        1•4 months ago

        It also compiles packages with newer architecture feature support than mainline arch. All of its packages are compiled for x86_64-v3 and x86_64-v4, as compared to the x86_64-v2 of standard arch. This improves performance at the cost of older CPU support

      • @[email protected]
        1•4 months ago

        They also ship ZFS out of the box, which makes their kernels my go-to solution for the systems I want to boot off ZFS.