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Chromium Embedded Framework "CEF" Seeing Progress On Wayland Support

Phoronix - Fri, 01/31/2025 - 19:36
One of the important pieces of open-source software still working toward proper Wayland support is the Chromium Embedded Framework "CEF" that in turn is depended upon by software like Steam, OBS Studio, Spotify, and many other software packages for having an in-app browser-type experience. The good news is there has been some recent progress on native Wayland support for CEF...

FUSE Hooks Up With IO_uring For Greater Performance Potential In Linux 6.14

Phoronix - Fri, 01/31/2025 - 19:23
The FUSE code within the Linux kernel for enabling file-systems in user-space has a new performance capability up its sleeve with now supporting IO_uring communication between kernel and user-space...

NVIDIA VFIO Driver Prepares For Blackwell With Linux 6.14

Phoronix - Fri, 01/31/2025 - 19:09
All of the Virtual Function I/O (VFIO) driver updates were merged this week as we reach the end of the Linux 6.14 merge window...

How to Mount a USB Drive Every Time Linux Boots Up

Tecmint - Fri, 01/31/2025 - 13:16
The post How to Mount a USB Drive Every Time Linux Boots Up first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

If you use a USB drive regularly on your Linux system, you might want it to automatically mount every time

The post How to Mount a USB Drive Every Time Linux Boots Up first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Mesa 25.0-rc1 Released With Initial AMD RDNA4 Support, Vulkan 1.4 & Other New Extensions

Phoronix - Fri, 01/31/2025 - 09:36
Mesa 25.0 feature development is now over with the code having been branched from Mesa Git and the Mesa 25.0-rc1 release candidate issued. Mesa 25.0 is to be the next quarterly feature release for these open-source 3D graphics drivers and will hopefully see its stable debut before the end of February. In turn Mesa 25.0 will be found with the likes of Fedora 42 and Ubuntu 25.04 for providing the newest open-source OpenGL and Vulkan driver support, including for upcoming AMD RDNA4 graphics...

GParted 1.7 Released With Support For Bcachefs & Network Block Devices

Phoronix - Fri, 01/31/2025 - 09:20
GParted as the GNOME Partition Editor as one of the most robust solutions for GUI-driven partition and file-system management on Linux is out with a new feature release...

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