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Budgie 10.10 Desktop Releasing This Quarter As Wayland-Only

Phoronix - Tue, 01/07/2025 - 21:33
For fans of the Budgie desktop environment that got its start out of the Solus Linux distribution, the Budgie 10.10 release expected later this quarter will be their first release that is Wayland-only...

Device Memory "DMEM" Cgroup Support Ready For Linux 6.14 To Allow Limiting GPU vRAM

Phoronix - Tue, 01/07/2025 - 19:51
A pull request submitted this week to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle is introducing the notion of device memory "DMEM" to cgroup with the main intended use being to restrict device memory usage based on the cgroup hierarchy such as for graphics cards with their dedicated vRAM...

CXL Block Device "CBD" Looking Very Promising For The Linux Kernel In 2025

Phoronix - Tue, 01/07/2025 - 19:38
Originally proposed for the Linux kernel nearly one year ago was CBD as the CXL Block Device. Now up to its third revision, the Linux CBD patches are calming down and the performance gains are looking quite nice...

OpenZFS 2.3-rc5 Released With Support For Cross-Compiling Kernel Modules

Phoronix - Tue, 01/07/2025 - 19:15
OpenZFS 2.3 continues working its way toward release with Monday having brought the fifth and potentially final release candidate...

NVIDIA Announces The GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" Series

Phoronix - Tue, 01/07/2025 - 11:24
The latest from a rather active CES 2025 is NVIDIA announcing the GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" series line-up...

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