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Hyprland 0.52 Released With New Features For This Wayland Compositor

Phoronix - Sat, 11/08/2025 - 01:08
Hyprland 0.52 is available today as the latest feature update for this alternative Wayland compositor...

IncusOS Announced As Immutable Linux OS With ZFS For Running Containers

Phoronix - Sat, 11/08/2025 - 00:57
It has been two years already since the Linux Containers project forked Canonical's LXD project as Incus. Now joining the Incus family is IncusOS as an immutable Linux OS built atop a Debian base with OpenZFS file-system support and designed around running containers with Incus...

Intel's Rewrite Of Linux MM CID Code Showing Some Nice Gains For AMD

Phoronix - Fri, 11/07/2025 - 23:25
Posted last month were new Linux kernel scheduler-related patches rewriting the MM CID management code. The main takeaway for end-users from this set of 19 Linux kernel patches from an Intel engineer was seeing 14~18% improvement in a PostgreSQL database benchmark but that more benchmarks were needed. Curiosity got the best of me and I recently tested these patches on an AMD EPYC server to seeing some very enticing results for this in-development code.

D7VK Aims To Deliver Direct3D 7 Atop Vulkan

Phoronix - Fri, 11/07/2025 - 23:18
DXVK is an important piece of Steam Play (Proton) that over time expanded to supporting Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 and even D3D8 too. Meanwhile VKD3D-Proton delivers Direct3D 12 atop Vulkan. Now there is a fork of the DXVK project working to bring Direct3D 7 support atop Vulkan...

Linux To Gain ML-DSA/Dilithium Post-Quantum Cryptography For Module Signing

Phoronix - Fri, 11/07/2025 - 22:06
New code likely to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel would introduce ML-DSA/Dilithium post-quantum cryptography to be initially used for dealing with kernel module signing...

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