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MGLRU Could Land In Linux 5.19 For Improving Performance - Especially Low RAM Situations

Phoronix - Sun, 03/27/2022 - 06:00
MGLRU is a kernel innovation we've been eager to see merged in 2022 and it looks like that could happen for the next cycle, v5.19, for improving Linux system performance especially in cases of approaching memory pressure...

Debian 11.3 Released With Many Bug Fixes, Security Updates

Phoronix - Sun, 03/27/2022 - 05:33
Debian 12 "Bookworm" is coming next year while out this weekend is Debian 11.3 as the newest update in the "Bullseye" series...

Intel CET Indirect Branch Tracking Submitted For Linux 5.18

Phoronix - Sun, 03/27/2022 - 01:45
Indirect Branch Tracking (IBT) that is part of Intel's Control-Flow Enforcement Technology (CET) found with Tiger Lake CPUs and newer is landing for the Linux 5.18 kernel...

DXVK 1.10.1 Released With Initial Support For Shared Resources, Game Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 03/26/2022 - 20:20
Building off DXVK 1.10 released at the start of the month, we are now ending out March with DXVK 1.10.1 for this translation layer used for running Direct3D 9/10/11 games over the Vulkan API on Linux systems...

XFS Online Repair Functionality To Undergo A Massive Design Review

Phoronix - Sat, 03/26/2022 - 19:35
The XFS file-system updates have been submitted and merged for the ongoing Linux 5.18 merge window...

AMD Recruiting More Linux Engineers For Debug, CXL Enablement & More

Phoronix - Sat, 03/26/2022 - 19:00
I was informed that AMD has a few more Linux positions open at the company. While they have in past years been rather nimble with their Linux staffing, things continue to change thanks to their ongoing successes in the marketplace from the consumer side with Steam Deck through the likes of Tesla's infotainment system up through high-end server platforms...

SDL_sound 2.0 Released As First Update In Nearly 14 Years

Phoronix - Sat, 03/26/2022 - 18:56
Longtime Linux game porter and SDL developer Ryan Gordon released SDL_sound 2.0 as the first release of this sound component to the Simple DirectMedia Library in nearly fourteen years...

The Switch Has Been Made From C89 To C11/GNU11 With Linux 5.18

Phoronix - Sat, 03/26/2022 - 18:05
As we approach the end of the first week of the Linux 5.18 merge window, another note worthy pull request to land is the switching of the C language standard from GNU89 (C89) to GNU11 (C11)...

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