CachyOS introduces new repository optimized for AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5 CPUS:zed linux

The repository will automatically used for new CachyOs installations on AMD Zen4 and Zen 5 machines to provide best performance.

A new CachyOS snapshot for July 2024 is out today with lot of improvements and new features especially for AMD users and usual bug fixes and other changes to improve your experience.

CachyOS hardware detection tool get help for configuring the libva driver as default for supported NVIDIA hardware along with ability to correctly export the variable to profile.

AMD uses get help for AMD CPB Boost feature which permit enabling or disabling the boost on per core basis which is supported in CachyOS kernel by default.

Beginning with this release CachyOS will enable a software repository on new installation that will be used to provide performance for AMD Zen 4 and Zen 5 machines.

ISO now features automatic architecture checks for Zen4/Zen 5 repository ans Cachy OS hardware detection tool get help for AMD GPU for detection of official Room supported GPUs.

CachyOS graphical installer Calamares has been update to use only Tier 1 Mirrors from Arch Linux install the latest archlinux keyring package from Arch Linux before starting installation to avoid issues and remove unused CachyOS repositories from config and copytoram kernel parameter was changed from yes to auto to avoid issues on machines with less RAM.

CachyOS Kernel Manager tool now has GUI to control the sched ext scheduler allowing users to enable or disable the scx service switch between different sched ext schedulers and set command line flags for them.

The July 2024 release of CachyOS removes unmaintained Cutefish software and userspace Kernel sampage merging daemon.