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Linuz 6.9-rc4 To Bring New Fixes For x86 Speculation Mitigations
The Linux 6.9-rc4 weekly test release is due out later today and ahead of that this week's "x86/urgent" material has been sent in that includes several patches for various x86 speculation mitigation fixes...
Audirvāna announces a Linux beta program - Alpha Audio
Audirvāna announces a Linux beta program Alpha Audio
Linux 6.10 To Account For NUMA Node When Allocating Per-CPU Cpumasks
In addition to a SLUB optimization for extreme scenarios, faster AES-XTS disk/file encryption for modern Intel/AMD CPUs, and other performance optimizations on the way for Linux 6.10, another minor one was queued up this week...
Mesa 24.1 Zink Lands "Super Fast" Merge Request To Optimize IO
Mike Blumenkrantz with Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver team has merged a big optimization / bug fixing effort he's recently been tackling for the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver...
Fedora 41 Looks To "-O3" Optimizations For Its Python Build
A change proposal has been filed for building the CPython interpreter and the Python standard library using the "-O3" compiler optimization flag rather than Fedora's imposed default of the "-O2" optimization level. This is being sought in the name of greater Python performance on Fedora 41...
KDE's Busy Week With Landing Explicit Sync & Many Other Changes
KDE developers had a very busy week with a lot of new feature work continuing to land for Plasma 6.1 plus continuing to address bugs and other fallout from the recent Plasma 6 introduction...
APT 2.9 Released: Debian's APT 3.0 To Have A New UI With Colors, Columnar Display & More
APT as the packaging tool built around Debian Linux is embarking on some big upgrades with the APT 2.9 development series to then roll-out as APT 3.0. There's big improvements to the command-line user interface with the new APT and it's certainly looking nice from my initial Friday night encounter...
XWayland 24.1 Planned For Release Next Month With Explicit Sync & Other Features
The XWayland 23.2 series was introduced last August while now release preparations have begun for releasing XWayland 24.1 as the next feature release for this X.Org Server derived code for allowing X11 clients (apps / games) to work within the confines of Wayland environments...