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Btrfs Enjoys More Performance With Linux 6.3 - Including Some 3~10x Speedups

Phoronix - Tue, 02/21/2023 - 06:00
The big batch of Btrfs file-system driver updates for the Linux 6.3 kernel were submitted today by SUSE's David Sterba. As with many kernel cycles, this Btrfs pull includes more performance optimizations as well as new features...

Ubuntu's New Desktop Installer Working On Auto-Install, Active Directory Integration

Phoronix - Tue, 02/21/2023 - 04:00
While the new Ubuntu 23.04 desktop installer is shaping up nicely, Canonical engineers continue to be busy working on additional features and ironing out functionality found within the existing Ubiquity installer but not yet their new Flutter-based graphical installer...

Microsoft Hyper-V Nested Hypervisor Support Comes For Linux 6.3

Phoronix - Tue, 02/21/2023 - 03:00
Several months back I wrote about Microsoft working on nested hypervisor support for Hyper-V with the Linux kernel. That work is now ready to go for the in-development Linux 6.3 cycle...

GNU Linux-libre 6.2 Continues The De-Blobbing Battle

Phoronix - Tue, 02/21/2023 - 02:30
Building off yesterday's release of Linux 6.2, the GNU Linux-libre 6.2 kernel was published today by the GNU FSFLA folks maintaining this kernel downstream that strips out driver support dependent upon non-free software firmware/assets as well as dropping the ability to load closed-source kernel modules...

Plans Being Drafted To Upstream Intel's New "Xe" Linux Graphics Driver

Phoronix - Tue, 02/21/2023 - 00:00
While the Linux 6.3 merge window has just begun, what you won't find in this next kernel version is the Intel Xe DRM driver as the new kernel graphics driver being worked on by the company for their modern integrated and discrete graphics processors...

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