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Btrfs Async Buffered Writes Slated For Linux 6.1 - 2x Throughput Improvement

Phoronix - Sun, 09/25/2022 - 22:20
Queued up in the Btrfs for-next Git repository ahead of the Linux 6.1 merge window is support for async buffered writes that can offer a more than two times throughput improvement...

Archinstall 2.5.1 Released With A Number Of Fixes For The Arch Linux Installer

Phoronix - Sun, 09/25/2022 - 19:43
Over the past year and a half of being on the Arch Linux install media, archinstall has made it dramatically quicker and easier to get this popular Linux distribution installed. Out today is Archinstall 2.5.1 with a number of fixes and other changes for this easy-to-use Arch Linux installer...

New Car & Flight Controller HID Drivers Ready To Race With Linux 6.1

Phoronix - Sun, 09/25/2022 - 19:35
Two new HID drivers are set to premiere with the upcoming Linux 6.1 merge window for car and flight simulators...

GNOME 43.1 To Support Wayland On The AMD-Xilinx Kria KR260

Phoronix - Sun, 09/25/2022 - 17:55
Earlier this year AMD-Xilinx announced a Linux-powered robotics starter kit making use of Xilinx's Kria KR26 SOM featuring a Zynq Ultrascale+ with four Cortex-A53 cores and Mali graphics. While robotics focused, there is a DisplayPort output and over the summer Canonical has been working to get this board playing nicely with a Wayland-powered GNOME desktop...

Generic EFI Compressed Boot Support Prepped Ahead Of Linux 6.1

Phoronix - Sun, 09/25/2022 - 17:32
Linux kernel developer Ard Biesheuvel has been working on a patch series implementing EFI generic compressed boot support that can be easily used by architectures like AArch64, LoongArch, and RISC-V...

Intel Habana Labs AI Driver Updates Readied For Linux 6.1

Phoronix - Sun, 09/25/2022 - 03:28
This week saw the Intel Habana Labs AI accelerator driver updates submitted to char/misc ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.1 merge window...

OpenJDK Java's Native Wayland Support Progressing

Phoronix - Sun, 09/25/2022 - 02:21
OpenJDK/Java has been making progress on implementing native "pure" Wayland toolkit integration not dependent upon X.Org/X11 or XWayland for rendering of Java GUI applications...

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