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EXT4 For Linux 6.16 Brings A Change Yielding "Really Stupendous Performance"

Phoronix - Wed, 05/28/2025 - 08:57
Ted Ts'o sent out the EXT4 file-system changes today for the Linux 6.16 kernel. While EXT4 may not see as much code churn these days given its mature state compared to say Btrfs and Bcachefs, with Linux 6.16 are some tantalizing performance improvements...

Xfce's xfwm4 Merges Wayland Compositor Code Based On wlroots

Phoronix - Wed, 05/28/2025 - 08:25
Merged today for Xfce's Xfwm4 window manager component is a built-in Wayland compositor using wlroots...

Linux 6.16 Upstreams Support For Hardware-Wrapped Encryption Keys

Phoronix - Wed, 05/28/2025 - 04:15
Google engineer Eric Biggers took time away from all his impressive crypto performance optimizations to the Linux kernel for modern Intel and AMD CPUs to spend time getting support for hardware-wrapped inline encryption keys into the mainline kernel. Google's Android kernel has been carrying this functionality for several years to help enhance security and will now be found in the mainline kernel too for capable platforms...

Intel APX Ready With Linux 6.16, Outdated Intel CPU Microcode Reporting Merged

Phoronix - Wed, 05/28/2025 - 02:00
Merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel are all of the x86 core enhancements that provide a variety of benefits to Intel as well as AMD processors...

AlmaLinux 10.0 Stable Released - Unlike RHEL 10, It Continues Supporting x86-64-v2 CPUs

Phoronix - Wed, 05/28/2025 - 00:59
Building off the recent release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0, AlmaLinux 10.0 stable is now available as this RHEL-derived popular community Linux OS alternative...

Wayland ext-background-effect-v1 Merged For Background Blur Feature

Phoronix - Wed, 05/28/2025 - 00:19
After being under discussion since January of 2024, the ext-background-effect-v1 staging protocol proposal by KDE developer Xaver Hugl has finally been merged to the Wayland-Protocols repository. This new Wayland protocol is intended for handling effects like background blur on terminals...

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