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SquashFS Optimization Achieves 15,277x Performance In Developer Benchmark

Phoronix - Wed, 09/24/2025 - 08:23
SquashFS developer Phillip Lougher posted a patch today just over one hundred lines of code yielding an outright massive performance gain for some operations with this compressed. read-only file-system...

Haptic Touchpad Support Expected For Linux 6.18

Phoronix - Wed, 09/24/2025 - 05:48
The upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel is expected to land initial haptic touchpad support as part of the HID subsystem updates...

Bytedance Proposes "Parker" For Linux: Multiple Kernels Running Simultaneously

Phoronix - Wed, 09/24/2025 - 00:11
It was just a few days ago that a multi-kernel architecture was proposed for the Linux kernel. Separate from that proposal from Multikernel Technologies, it turns out Bytedance has been working on their own similar solution called Parker. Today Bytedance lifted the lid on Parker as their solution for running multiple kernels simultaneously on the same hardware/system...

Running The Bcachefs DKMS Modules On Ubuntu Linux

Phoronix - Tue, 09/23/2025 - 21:46
With DKMS packages now being available for Ubuntu and Debian Linux distributions for running the latest out-of-tree Bcachefs file-system driver support with ease and reproducibility, I decided to try out the updated Bcachefs driver on Ubuntu Linux to see how the performance is relative to the upstream Linux 6.17 kernel with its now-frozen Bcachefs support.

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