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Wayland's Weston 13.0 Released With Multi-Backend Support & Overlapping Outputs

Phoronix - Tue, 11/28/2023 - 13:00
Weston 13.0 has been released as the latest major update to this reference Wayland compositor that attracts various experimental features and other innovations as developers experiment in the post-X11 world...

AMD Has A Nice Performance Optimization Coming With Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Tue, 11/28/2023 - 05:39
Queued up into tip/tip.git's x86/cpu branch ahead of the Linux 6.8 merge window opening in a month is an optimization that should prove helpful in cloud/VM scenarios...

Intel Appears On The Verge Of Some Exciting Performance Optimizations For Linux Distros

Phoronix - Tue, 11/28/2023 - 03:19
One thing that has never gotten old over the past nearly twenty years of covering Linux news on Phoronix are the relentless performance optimizations made to the Linux kernel, GCC and LLVM/Clang compilers, and other key open-source projects over the years. Intel engineers have been responsible for so many exciting Linux performance optimizations over time at ensuring maximum Linux x86_64 performance as well as ensuring great performance at a macro-level as they've showcased with the likes of Clear Linux. It looks like they have some new innovation(s) in store soon for further maximizing compiler-assisted performance...

OpenZFS Is Still Battling A Data Corruption Issue

Phoronix - Tue, 11/28/2023 - 00:27
Last week OpenZFS 2.2.1 was released with a reported fix for a data corruption issue that was initially blamed as being a block cloning bug for a new feature introduced in the v2.2 release. Well, it turns out that the block cloning feature isn't the root cause and that v2.2.1 is still prone to data corruption and pre-v2.2 releases are also vulnerable to this file-system data corruption issue...

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