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Warehouse: The Ultimate GUI for Managing Flatpak Apps in Linux

Tecmint - Fri, 11/22/2024 - 13:11
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As a Linux enthusiast, especially one who frequently utilizes Flatpak for application management, I’ve always found the command-line interface (CLI)

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Nice File Performance Optimizations Coming With Linux 6.13

Phoronix - Fri, 11/22/2024 - 10:02
In addition to the pull requests managed by Microsoft engineer Christian Brauner for VFS untorn writes for atomic writes with XFS and EXT4, Tmpfs case insensitive file/folder support, new Rust file abstractions, and the renewed multi-grain timestamps work, another interesting Linux 6.13 pull submitted by Brauner revolves around VFS file enhancements...

Faster Raspberry Pi Graphics & Intel Xe3 Enablement Starts With Linux 6.13 DRM Changes

Phoronix - Fri, 11/22/2024 - 05:27
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.13 merge window in bringing many updates to the open-source kernel graphics/display drivers as well as the accelerator subsystem...

ReiserFS Has Been Deleted From The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Fri, 11/22/2024 - 02:15
Linus Torvalds just merged the change to the Linux 6.13 kernel that goes ahead and deletes the ReiserFS file-system from the source tree. Removing ReiserFS from the Linux tree lightens the kernel by 32.8k lines of code...

Mesa 24.3 Released With Many Open-Source Vulkan Driver Improvements

Phoronix - Fri, 11/22/2024 - 01:20
Mesa 24.3 has managed to make it out today, one week ahead of the previous release plans due to the lack of any major blocker bugs appearing. Mesa 24.3 has a lot of new feature work on the contained open-source Vulkan drivers as well as evolutionary improvements to their OpenGL drivers and other user-space 3D driver code...

Linux 6.13 SoC Updates Land With Initial Support For Many Older Apple Devices

Phoronix - Thu, 11/21/2024 - 23:17
The four pull requests adding various SoC and board/platform support have now been merged for the Linux 6.13 kernel. This includes support for many older Apple iPad/iPhones, supporting another SoC with a combination of RISC-V and ARM cores, and a wide variety of other mostly ARM hardware support...

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