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Firewalld 2.0 Released With Faster Forwarding Performance Via NFTables Flowtable

Phoronix - Sat, 06/24/2023 - 02:26
The Firewalld open-source firewall daemon has been in development since 2011 while only two years ago did it reach the Firewalld 1.0 milestone. Thus it was a bit surprising to find Firewalld 2.0 being released today...

Et Tu, Red Hat? - Hackaday

Google News - Sat, 06/24/2023 - 01:00
Et Tu, Red Hat?  Hackaday

Two Fedora Spins Eye Going X.Org-less

Phoronix - Sat, 06/24/2023 - 00:30
The Fedora Sericea and Sway spins are eyeing the possibility of shipping without the xorg-x11 packages for being the first X.Org-less desktop spins in the Fedora Linux world...

Linux 6.5 To Bring Better NUMA Awareness For The NFSD/RDMA Server

Phoronix - Fri, 06/23/2023 - 22:30
Among the early pull requests already submitted for the Linux 6.5 merge window that is expected to open next week are the Linux NFS server (NFSD) changes. Notable this cycle is the NFSD and RDMA server code having better NUMA awareness...

SDDM 0.20 Display Manager Released With Experimental Wayland Greeter

Phoronix - Fri, 06/23/2023 - 21:45
SDDM as the QML-based X11 and Wayland display manager commonly used on KDE systems and elsewhere is finally out with a new release...

GNOME Lands Nice Optimization For Wayland Gaming

Phoronix - Fri, 06/23/2023 - 18:25
Merged this week into the GNOME Mutter compositor codebase is what should be a beneficial optimization for those enjoying Linux gaming under the GNOME Wayland session...

Mesa Turns To BLAKE3 For Faster Vulkan Shader Hashing

Phoronix - Fri, 06/23/2023 - 18:11
Mesa has switched from SHA1 to BLAKE3 for its shader hashing to deliver better performance...

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