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Linux 5.15 Enabling "-Werror" By Default For All Kernel Builds

Phoronix - Mon, 09/06/2021 - 03:45
A change made by Linus Torvalds and merged today for Linux 5.15 is enabling the "-Weror" compiler flag by default for all kernel builds...

High Resolution Scrolling On Linux Progressing, Apple Magic Mouse Support In Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Sun, 09/05/2021 - 22:14
Being worked on for several years now on the Linux desktop has been high resolution scrolling including work for it around X Input, the libinput library used both by X.Org and Wayland systems, and the kernel driver side for the HID/input devices to support it. The latest user-space work is high resolution scroll wheel support within the next libinput release. Separately, with Linux 5.15 is now additionally support for high resolution scrolling with the Apple Magic Mouse...

FUTEX2 Revised Again For Helping Steam Play But Will Miss Out On Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Sun, 09/05/2021 - 18:02
One of the kernel patch series that has seen ongoing work for more than one year now is around introducing the FUTEX2 system call to better match the behavior of Microsoft Windows' NT kernel in order to allow for more efficient Proton/Wine usage that powers Steam Play for enjoying Windows games on Linux...

F2FS Sees More Performance Work For Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Sun, 09/05/2021 - 17:41
With Linux 5.15 there are optimizations for EXT4, big improvements for XFS, and significant work on Btrfs too. Rounding out the notable file-system work on Linux 5.15, the F2FS updates were submitted and subsequently landed for this next kernel version...

Create a photo collage from the Linux command line

opensource.com - Sun, 09/05/2021 - 15:00

ImageMagick is the "Swiss Army knife" of manipulating images on the command line. While you could use a desktop graphics program like GIMP or GLIMPSE to adjust or combine photos and graphics, sometimes it's just easier to use one of the almost dozen tools from ImageMagick.

For example, I frequently find myself creating image montages to share on social media. Let's say I wanted to share a montage or "image grid" of several screenshots. To do that, I use the ImageMagick montage command. 


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Dav1d 0.9.2 Released With More SSSE3, SSE4, AVX2, NEON Optimizations

Phoronix - Sun, 09/05/2021 - 14:00
Released at the start of August was dav1d 0.9.1 for this high performance CPU-based AV1 open-source video decoder while now another point release is available with yet more optimizations...

Linux Has A New Maintainer For Its CD-ROM Driver Code

Phoronix - Sun, 09/05/2021 - 04:28
After more than two decades of maintaining the Linux CD-ROM driver code, Jens Axboe who also serves as the block subsystem maintainer, IO_uring lead developer, and filling other roles, announced he was looking for someone to take over the CD-ROM code...

NVIDIA Confirms Sway Wayland Compositor Works Fine With Their New GBM Driver Support

Phoronix - Sun, 09/05/2021 - 00:24
Stemming from an ongoing Mesa GBM discussion over introducing new gbm_bo_create_with_modifiers2 / gbm_surface_create_with_modifiers2 functions since the original "gbm_*_create_with_modifiers" functions lack support for passing usage flags, NVIDIA confirmed that the Sway Wayland compositor is working fine with their forthcoming driver supporting GBM...

Samsung 860/870 SSDs Continue Causing Problems For Linux Users

Phoronix - Sat, 09/04/2021 - 19:24
While Samsung has explicitly stated before that queued TRIM works for Samsung 860 SSDs on Linux and thus leading to only older Samsung 840/850 drives being blocked from queued TRIM usage, that turns out to be inaccurate and now more quirks are added for the Samsung 860 and 870 series SSDs on Linux...

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