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Miracle-WM Mir-Based Wayland Compositor Aiming For v1.0 Later This Year

Phoronix - Mon, 06/22/2026 - 19:12
Miracle-WM 0.10 released on Sunday as the newest feature release for this Mir-based Wayland compositor. With this new release is also acknowledgement they are hoping to cross the "1.0" milestone later in the year...

Valve Creates The Ray-Tracing Inspector "RTI" To Help Further Optimize Linux GPU Drivers

Phoronix - Mon, 06/22/2026 - 18:33
Merged today to Mesa 26.1 is the Ray-Tracing Inspector "RTI" as a new GUI created by developers on Valve's open-source Linux graphics team. The Ray-Tracing Inspector is designed to help in analyzing and optimizing the Vulkan ray-tracing performance as part of their continued work on further bettering the Radeon RADV RT performance for Steam Play / Linux gaming...

OneXPlayer Configuration Driver Merged For Linux 7.2 Along With Other New Hardware

Phoronix - Mon, 06/22/2026 - 18:18
The HID subsystem updates have landed in the Linux 7.2 kernel with some treats that will excite Linux gamers and other desktop users...

Linux 7.2 sched_ext Continues Working Toward Sub-Scheduler Support

Phoronix - Mon, 06/22/2026 - 17:59
Merged last week for the Linux 7.2 kernel were all of the sched_ext changes for this extensible scheduler support that allows loading BPF programs from user-space for handling scheduling tasks. Linux 7.2 continues building out sched_ext's sub-scheduler support...

How to Resize ext4 Partitions and Filesystems in Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 06/22/2026 - 13:20
The post How to Resize ext4 Partitions and Filesystems in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

resize2fs is the tool that lets an ext4 filesystem use the extra space you’ve added to a partition. Without it,

The post How to Resize ext4 Partitions and Filesystems in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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