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As part of the effort to make GNOME Terminal and the VTE terminal emulator library render faster, the GNOME Terminal has been seeing more work lately in being ported over to using the GTK 4 toolkit. Additionally, the VTE terminal library has been working to overcome its long-standing 40 FPS rendering cap...

GNOME Terminal Working To Migrate To GTK 4, VTE To Overcome ...  Phoronix

The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) continues to be improved upon in the mainline Linux kernel and with the ongoing v6.7 merge window has received some additional enhancements...

F2FS In Linux 6.7 Supports Larger Page Size, Continued Zone Block Device Work  Phoronix

Papirus Icon Pack for Linux Gets Fresh Update  OMG! Ubuntu!

When Linux Spooked Microsoft: Remembering 1998's Leaked ...  Slashdot

How to Run a Program Periodically Using the Watch Command on ...  MUO - MakeUseOf

Blosc (c-blosc2) is a high performance compressor focused on binary data for efficient storage of large binary data-sets in-memory or on-disk and helping to speed-up memory-bound computations...

Blosc Compressor Adds AVX-512 Bitshuffle: 20% Faster ...  Phoronix

Linux 6.6 saw EEVDF merged and Intel hybrid cluster scheduling re-introduced. The core scheduler improvements merged this past week for the in-development Linux 6.7 isn't quite as exciting but still there are some healthy scheduler improvements this round...

Linux 6.7 Boasts Some Scheduler Improvements & Intel IBRS Mitigation Change  Phoronix

Start Developing with Rocky Linux as a Docker Container  The New Stack

Mesa's Rust-based OpenCL implementation "Rusticl" has added initial support for the cl_khr_gl_sharing extension for working on OpenGL and OpenCL interoperability...

Mesa's Rusticl Adds cl_khr_gl_sharing For Advancing OpenGL ...  Phoronix

Linux permissions guide: Everything you need to know  XDA Developers

How to Install and use SAR on Linux  LXer

The Linux 6.7 sound subsystem changes submitted this week by maintainer Takashi Iwai include support for a number of new audio devices/platforms...

New AMD & Intel Sound Support Ready For Playback In Linux 6.7  Phoronix

Recently there was some tuning in Mesa Git for helping with higher quality Radeon video encoding on Linux for GPUs using Video Core Next (VCN). Similar tuning has now been back-ported for older Radeon GPUs using the VCE encode engine and UVD video decoding...

Mesa 24.0 Improving Radeon VCE/UVD Video Encoding Quality  Phoronix