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Many Rust Changes Submitted For Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Mon, 03/31/2025 - 08:06
All of the Rust programming language infrastructure updates for the Linux 6.15 kernel have now been submitted. In addition to a lot of technical Rust improvements for the Linux kernel, this cycle also marks the first time Rust Linux maintainer Miguel Ojeda has taken a pull request directly from another contributor as they prepare to work out sub-trees for the Rust ecosystem...

CachyOS Adds Limine Bootloader, Easier Samba Integration & NTSYNC Wine

Phoronix - Sun, 03/30/2025 - 23:43
The Arch Linux powered CachyOS is out with its March 2025 update that delivers a number of new features for this OS that is popular with open-source enthusiasts and power users for its out-of-the-box performance optimizations and extensive tuning...

Chromium Web Browser Lands Support For Wayland XDG-Session-Management

Phoronix - Sun, 03/30/2025 - 23:07
Google's Ozone Wayland support continues to improve for benefiting the Chrome/Chromium web browser. The newest addition merged this past week is support for the xdg-session-management protocol...

Lenovo ThinkEdge SE30 Watchdog Driver Coming For Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Sun, 03/30/2025 - 21:17
The watchdog subsystem changes have been submitted for the Linux 6.15 merge window that is now at the mid-way point...

Mesa's Exciting Q1 With More Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Performance Optimizations

Phoronix - Sun, 03/30/2025 - 18:51
The first quarter of 2025 is already drawing to a close... It seemed like Q1'2025 flew by but when looking back at all the Mesa 3D graphics driver activity, there was a heck of a lot accomplished in this area of the open-source landscape. Open-source Vulkan drivers continued advancing feverishly, Mesa code continues to be adapted to new platforms from Windows to Haiku OS, and all the big vendors continue being involved in open-source GPU drivers in one form or another...

IO_uring Network Zero-Copy Receive Lands In Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Sun, 03/30/2025 - 18:44
IO_uring continues maturing while being one of the greatest innovations within the Linux kernel in the past number of years. With Linux 6.15, IO_uring is getting even more interesting with introducing network zero-copy receive support. With this new code a 200G link could be saturated off a single CPU core in a recent demonstration...

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