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Linux 6.8-rc7 Released With The Stable Kernel Potentially Coming Next Week

Phoronix - Mon, 03/04/2024 - 05:20
Linus Torvalds just issued Linux 6.8-rc7 as we close in on the Linux 6.8 stable release in the next week or two...

GNOME Shell & Mutter 46 RC Brings Modifier-Aware Screencasting, VRR & X.Org Sync Fix

Phoronix - Sun, 03/03/2024 - 23:25
In preparation for the GNOME 46 release candidate, the "46.rc" versions of GNOME Shell and Mutter were published this morning. The release candidate work is mostly about fixing outstanding issues but there are also some lingering fixes that made it into these releases...

OpenMediaVault 7.0 Released For Debian 12 Powered NAS Platform

Phoronix - Sun, 03/03/2024 - 22:42
OpenMediaVault 7.0 was released today as a major update to this open-source Network Attached Storage (NAS) solution built around Debian Linux. This plug-based NAS platform with web UI allows supporting a variety of services/protocols is now even more capable with the OpenMediaVault 7.0 availability...

Redox OS Scores A Massive Performance Boost For I/O

Phoronix - Sun, 03/03/2024 - 22:06
The Rust-written Redox OS is out with a new monthly status report to outline the enhancements made to this open-source operating system during the month of February...

Wine Code Merged To Overcome A Vulkan Performance Penalty

Phoronix - Sun, 03/03/2024 - 19:58
Merged this week ahead of the Wine 9.4 development release due out next Friday is support for using the new Vulkan VK_EXT_map_memory_placed extension to overcome a performance penalty with Windows on Windows 64-bit (WOW64) for games/apps...

GDB 14.2 Brings A Few Fixes For The GNU Debugger

Phoronix - Sun, 03/03/2024 - 19:32
GDB 14.2 has been released to provide a few fixes for the GNU Debugger over its state found in last year's GDB 14.1...

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