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Linux 5.10 To Bring Rework To Raspberry Pi 4 USB Firmware Initialization

Phoronix - Sun, 08/23/2020 - 04:28
One of the early changes queued in the USB area for the Linux 5.10 cycle later this summer is a "reset-raspberrypi" driver set for introduction as another upstream improvement for the current-generation Raspberry Pi 4 single board computer...

Unity Is The Latest Company To Join Blender's Development Fund

Phoronix - Sun, 08/23/2020 - 00:18
Unity Tech is the latest high profile company joining the Blender Development Fund for assisting this leading open-source 3D modeling software...

OpenZFS File-System Merges Support For Using Zstd Compression

Phoronix - Sat, 08/22/2020 - 21:28
Adding to the list of software projects embracing Zstd for its very efficient compression abilities, OpenZFS is now supporting the Facebook-developed Zstandard as its latest file-system compression support...

Linux 5.10 To Bring SLDT/STR Emulation To Help Some Windows Games On Wine

Phoronix - Sat, 08/22/2020 - 19:22
Last year Wine itself added emulation for some CPU instructions now blocked by UMIP, the User-Mode Instruction Prevention functionality found in the latest Intel and AMD processors. Now slated for Linux 5.10 is the emulation/spoofing of two of those instructions by the kernel as another attempt to help a small number of Windows programs relying on those instructions...

KDE Apps Now Remember Their Window Positions When Closed & Re-Launched

Phoronix - Sat, 08/22/2020 - 18:42
KDE applications finally have the ability to keeping their window positions preserved when closed and then re-launched...

EXT4 Changes Land For Linux 5.9 With Block Allocator Performance Work

Phoronix - Sat, 08/22/2020 - 15:58
With all the Linux 5.9 kernel changes you may have noticed no major EXT4 file-system pull request was submitted during the kernel merge window the prior two weeks. Fortunately, the EXT4 work has now been sent out and Linus Torvalds honored the late changes for this widely-used Linux file-system...

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