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Linux 6.5 Adds CXL Device Sanitization, Secure Erase, CXL 3.0 Performance Monitor

Phoronix - Sat, 07/01/2023 - 18:03
The Compute Express Link (CXL) enablement in the Linux kernel remains ongoing and with the in-development Linux 6.5 kernel are yet more features now being enabled for this exciting industry standard...

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...

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