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Linux Enacts Guidance To Tighten Acceptance Of New File-Systems Into The Kernel

Phoronix - 2 hours 51 min ago
There is no shortage of different file-systems available for Linux. New file-systems continue to come about in the open-source world but ultimately many of them end up not being well maintained or having very limited users and not necessarily innovating enough to make them worthwhile over other alternatives. Given the continued increase in file-systems looking to get into the Linux kernel, such as FTRFS and VMUFAT being some of the most recent and then even having multiple NTFS drivers for Linux, there is now documentation in place to formally lay out criteria for new file-systems to be accepted...

KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Finally Comes To Slackware

Phoronix - 3 hours 38 min ago
It's been a while since there has been any Slackware news to pass along, but this week they've finally landed the KDE Plasma 6 desktop in this legendary Linux distribution...

Btrfs Now Enables Large Folios By Default, Lands Huge Folios With Linux 7.2

Phoronix - 3 hours 47 min ago
The Btrfs file-system feature updates have been merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel with a few noteworthy changes for this copy-on-write file-system...

Wayland's Weston 16 Alpha Brings HDR Improvements, Vulkan Renderer Fixes

Phoronix - 6 hours 15 min ago
Wayland developers have prepared the release of Weston 16.0 Alpha 1 for this reference Wayland compositor with new features...

Linux 7.2 Improves Anonymous/Unnamed Pipe Performance For Shell Pipelines & More

Phoronix - 7 hours 2 min ago
Yet another performance optimization merged for the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel is improving the speed of anon_pipe_write, the kernel function used for writing data into anonymous/unnamed pipes such as when using shell pipelines or standard streams from applications...

Intel Compute Runtime Now Advertises Early Support For Nova Lake, Introduces Experimental "LEO"

Phoronix - Tue, 06/16/2026 - 23:41
Intel's open-source Compute Runtime stack for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero on their graphics processors has been bringing up Nova Lake support since January. With today's release of the Intel Compute Runtime 26.22.38646.4, the Nova Lake Xe3P support has matured to the state of it being advertised now as under an "early support" status...

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