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Dynamic Triple Buffering Patch Updated For GNOME 45

Phoronix - Mon, 09/25/2023 - 18:16
GNOME 45 released last week and while it has many interesting desktop improvements, a feature still not found upstream is the Canonical-led work on dynamic triple buffering for Mutter...

3 Essential Linux Disk Scanning Tools (GUI and Terminal Based)

Tecmint - Mon, 09/25/2023 - 15:00
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There are mainly two reasons for scanning a computer hard disk: one is to examine it for filesystem inconsistencies or errors that can result from

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Linux 6.6-rc3 Released With MG Timestamps Removed

Phoronix - Mon, 09/25/2023 - 05:53
With roughly just about one month to go until the stable release, Linux 6.6-rc3 was released today as the newest test release of Linux 6.6...

Linux 6.7 Will Allow More Efficient Use With Intel QAT Gen4 Hardware

Phoronix - Mon, 09/25/2023 - 01:16
With the Linux 6.7 kernel this winter there is a new feature coming to Intel's QuickAssist Technology (QAT) device driver that will allow more efficient use with QAT Gen4 hardware such as the latest-generation Intel Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors...

AMD Prepares PMF Linux Driver For "Smart PC Solutions Builder"

Phoronix - Sun, 09/24/2023 - 22:34
The AMD Platform Management Framework (PMF) Linux driver is preparing to support a new but potentially controversial feature that's seen little public information so far: the Smart PC Solutions Builder...

Linux's Multi-Grain Timestamps Short-Lived: Removed From The Kernel After A Few Weeks

Phoronix - Sun, 09/24/2023 - 18:54
One of the new features merged for the Linux 6.6 kernel was multi-grained timestamps for the VFS layer and wiring it up for the EXT4, Btrfs, XFS, and Tmpfs file-systems. This alternative though to coarse-grained timestamps ended up exposing some problems and this week ahead of Linux 6.6-rc3, the feature has been stripped entirely from the kernel...

Intel's DAOS 2.4 Storage Engine Released

Phoronix - Sun, 09/24/2023 - 18:40
While Intel divested its storage business and Intel Optane was sadly discontinued, one of the interesting open-source software projects from its storage efforts has been DAOS, the Distributed Asynchronous Object Storage engine. Version 2.4 of the DAOS software-defined object store designed for high-speed storage was released this past week...

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