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Holiday Shopping 2023: FSF Endorses 802.11n WiFi, Opteron Boards & USB To Parallel Printer Cable

Phoronix - Thu, 11/30/2023 - 18:10
The Free Software Foundation this week published their 2023 holiday shopping guide for services and products that comply with their pure free software standards, such as computer hardware devices that "respect your freedom" regardless of hardware age...

Another Look At The Bcachefs Performance on Linux 6.7

Phoronix - Thu, 11/30/2023 - 13:00
Immediately after the Bcachefs file-system was upstreamed into the Linux 6.7 kernel I began running some benchmarks on this new copy-on-write file-system. Shortly thereafter some scalability improvements and disabling a debug option by default were merged. So with the Bcachefs work for Linux 6.7 settling down the past few weeks, here's a fresh look at how Bcachefs is performing against the likes of EXT4, XFS, F2FS, and Btrfs.

Mesa 23.3 Released With Initial NVK Vulkan Driver, AMD RDNA3 Refresh & Raspberry Pi 5

Phoronix - Thu, 11/30/2023 - 05:13
Eric Engestrom with Igalia just released Mesa 23.3 as the much anticipated quarterly update to this set of open-source 3D drivers principally focused on OpenGL and Vulkan API support...

Linux Mint's Cinnamon 6.0 Brings Initial -- Still Experimental -- Wayland Session

Phoronix - Thu, 11/30/2023 - 05:05
The Linux Mint crew led by Clement Lefebvre released Cinnamon 6.0 today as the latest version of their customized desktop stack...

KDE Plasma 6.0 Beta 1 Released With Frameworks & Gear Updated

Phoronix - Thu, 11/30/2023 - 04:51
KDE today announced their first beta of the "KDE 6th Megarelease" as the Plasma 6.0, KDE Frameworks 6, and latest Gear applications...

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