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KDE Plasma Fixes A "Major Performance Issue" Seen With Intel Graphics On Wayland

Phoronix - Sat, 07/01/2023 - 17:50
KDE developers finished out June on a high note with many features and new fixes landing for Plasma 6.0 development as well as refinements for later Plasma 5.27 point releases...

What's Excited Open-Source Enthusiasts & Linux Users The Most So Far In 2023

Phoronix - Sat, 07/01/2023 - 08:00
With the first-half of the year amazingly already in the books, here is a look back at what's captivated Linux/open-source fans the most from all the content on Phoronix. So far this year I have personally written 1,407 original news articles on software/hardware topics and another 74 original Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles...

OpenZFS 2.2-rc1 Brings Linux Container Support, BLAKE3 Checksums, Block Cloning

Phoronix - Sat, 07/01/2023 - 05:00
While OpenZFS 3.0 has been talked about for a few years with macOS support, it doesn't appear to be on the immediate horizon and the OpenZFS 2.2 release is being worked on currently for providing a few new features to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation on Linux and FreeBSD systems...

Linux's SLAB Allocator Is Officially Deprecated

Phoronix - Sat, 07/01/2023 - 01:14
Following the path of SLOB, Linux's SLAB memory allocator is now officially deprecated beginning with the Linux 6.5 kernel series...

Linux 6.5 Continues Making Preparations For WiFi 7, Enabling New Hardware

Phoronix - Fri, 06/30/2023 - 22:18
The Linux 6.5 networking subsystem changes include more preparations around the ongoing WiFi 7 wireless standard as well as bringing up support for a number of newer network adapters...

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