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GNOME Mutter 49 Beta Released With Pointer Warp Protocol, Wayland Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 08/04/2025 - 03:30
The GNOME 49 Mutter beta release is now available for testing ahead of the stable release of GNOME 49 coming up In September...

Intel QuickAssist Hit By Second Demotion In Linux 6.17 Due To Lack Of Kernel Benefit

Phoronix - Sun, 08/03/2025 - 23:24
A few days ago the Intel QuickAssist "QAT" accelerators were demoted by FSCRYPT in the Linux 6.17 development code due to being slow and bug prone with AVX-512 showing to be much faster than leveraging the QAT accelerators in this file encryption framework. With the Linux 6.17 crypto subsystem is a second separate demotion to Intel's QAT support for kernel use...

Apple HFS/HFS+ File-System Drivers See Many Fixes In Linux 6.17

Phoronix - Sun, 08/03/2025 - 21:34
Earlier this year there was talk of Linux potentially dropping its Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers as they had been orphaned for a decade and proving to be a maintenance burden. Following that some developers stepped up to better maintain the code for HFS and HFS+ file-system support. In Linux 6.17 we are seeing some of the fruits of that work...

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