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Paragon Looks To Mainline Their NTFS Read-Write Driver To The Mainline Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sun, 08/16/2020 - 06:30
With the mainline NTFS driver in the Linux kernel offering read-only support for this widely-used Microsoft file-system and the more popular "ntfs-3g" driver being FUSE-based, Paragon Software is looking to mainline their read-write driver into the mainline kernel tree as a significant improvement over the existing NTFS kernel driver. But in the current state it's not clear if the driver will be accepted...

GNOME 3.38 Beta Released Ahead Of Official Release Next Month

Phoronix - Sun, 08/16/2020 - 06:06
GNOME 3.37.90 has been released this weekend to serve as the beta of the upcoming GNOME 3.38 desktop release...

Intel P-State With Linux 5.9 Adds Passive Mode With Hardware P-States

Phoronix - Sat, 08/15/2020 - 23:47
Merged last week to Linux 5.9 were the main set of power management updates while hitting the kernel now are some last minute power-related changes...

System76 Preparing Coreboot Laptop With Core i9 10900K, Up To 128GB RAM

Phoronix - Sat, 08/15/2020 - 21:52
System76 has been on a spree of interesting hardware launches this year and their next one is a new Bonobo WS ultra high-end laptop...

Wine-Staging 5.15 Brings Systeminfo, Media Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 08/15/2020 - 21:01
Following the release yesterday of Wine 5.15, Wine-Staging 5.15 is out this morning and is coming in slightly smaller as a result of the XACT Engine work being upstreamed...

KDE Plasma 5.20 Seeing More System Settings Work, KDE-Inhibit Helper

Phoronix - Sat, 08/15/2020 - 18:54
KDE developers remain very busy tacking new features onto Plasma 5.20 and other improvements for polishing their desktop...

NFS Client Changes For Linux 5.9 Include User Xattr Support

Phoronix - Sat, 08/15/2020 - 14:57
As reported a few days ago the NFS server with Linux 5.9 saw user xattr support finally merged for user-extended attributes as defined by RFC 8276. The NFS client changes have now been sent in for this kernel and include the user xattr support along with other changes...

OpenRISC Sees Sane TLB Flushing With Linux 5.9

Phoronix - Sat, 08/15/2020 - 12:02
While RISC-V is flourishing when it comes to this open-source CPU architecture, the related OpenRISC architecture is still advancing but not seeing as much hardware efforts around it. In any case, the Linux kernel support continues improving for OpenRISC and with Linux 5.9 are more improvements...

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