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GNOME 46 Alpha Released With Many Improvements

Phoronix - Fri, 01/12/2024 - 22:03
If you happen to be impacted by snow storms today or otherwise have extra time on your hands this weekend, GNOME 46 Alpha is now available for testing this latest desktop environment that will be going head-to-head with KDE Plasma 6.0 later this quarter...

AMD P-State Preferred Core Support For Linux Tried A 13th Time

Phoronix - Fri, 01/12/2024 - 20:01
One of the features sadly not having made it in time for the Linux v6.8 kernel merge window is the AMD P-State Preferred Core support. This is about being able to properly communicate to the kernel and scheduler about "preferred cores" such as cases of some CPU cores having higher maximum frequencies or better performance characteristics than others. This is becoming more important with AMD Ryzen processors beginning to see a combination of Zen 4 and Zen 4C cores and other cases like AMD 3D V-Cache enabled processors where some cores would be preferred over others for performance sensitive work...

Linux Mint 21.3 Released With Full SecureBoot Support, Cinnamon 6.0 Desktop

Phoronix - Fri, 01/12/2024 - 19:48
Linux Mint 21.3 is now available for the latest version of this easy-to-use, beginner-friendly desktop Linux distribution that is currently built atop an Ubuntu 22.04 LTS package base...

EROFS Adds Sub-Page Compressed Data Support To Help Out Android & ARM64 Servers

Phoronix - Fri, 01/12/2024 - 19:31
The read-only EROFS open-source file-system continues to prove quite popular for Android mobile devices as well as containerized environments. With the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel EROFS adds initial support for sub-page compressed data support...

Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.42 Released With OpenJDK 21 Java Support

Phoronix - Fri, 01/12/2024 - 19:18
Eclipse OpenJ9 v0.42 released this week as the high performance Java Virtual Machine spun out from the IBM J9 JVM...

Linux 6.8 Upstreams More Intel TDX Bits For Protecting KVM Guests

Phoronix - Fri, 01/12/2024 - 19:01
Intel has prepared additional Trust Domain Extensions enablement code for the ongoing Linux 6.8 kernel merge window...

F2FS Improves Zoned Block Device Support With Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Fri, 01/12/2024 - 09:24
In addition to the Bcachefs changes for Linux 6.8, the Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) changes have also been separately submitted for the ongoing Linux 6.8 merge window...

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