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Nourish: A New Wayland Compositor Powered By Vulkan With Infinite Scrolling/Panning

Phoronix - 1 hour 39 min ago
The newest Wayland compositor on the block is Nourish, it's a Vulkan-powered and its unique selling point is offering "infinite" zooming and panning to in effect provide an infinite workspace...

Reserved THP Feature Proposed For Linux To Combine The Best Of HugeTLB & THP

Phoronix - 9 hours 42 min ago
Linux kernel developer and Bytedance engineer Qi Zheng sent out a request for comments (RFC) patch series on a new feature called Reserved THP to combine the best of HugeTLB and THP kernel functionality...

Linux MD RAID5 Seeing Scalability Improvements Up To 17%

Phoronix - Sat, 06/27/2026 - 19:17
Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week was a new patch series working on scalability enhancements to the MD RAID5 software RAID code. Up to a 10~17% improvement was observed in some configurations with these RAID5 scalability patches...

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