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Sensor Monitoring For The ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z690 FORMULA Coming For Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Sun, 05/04/2025 - 20:38
For those that happen to have the ASUS ROG MAXIMUS Z690 FORMULA or are shopping for a higher-end Intel Alder Lake / Raptor Lake desktop motherboard for Linux use, the ROG MAXIMUS Z690 FORMULA is the latest motherboard seeing hardware sensor monitoring support under Linux with the next version of the kernel...

EXT2 DAX Being Deprecated & For Removal At Year's End

Phoronix - Sun, 05/04/2025 - 19:02
The EXT2 file-system's direct access "DAX" mode is being deprecated and expected for removal at the end of 2025, after this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel version...

Bcachefs Patches Aim For Faster Snapshot Deletion But With Another On-Disk Format Update

Phoronix - Sun, 05/04/2025 - 18:27
In addition to Bcachefs working on better self-healing / automatic repair capabilities, this modern copy-on-write file-system is also working on faster snapshot deletion performance. A patch series was posted this week to speed-up the deletion of snapshots though it comes with another bump to the on-disk format of the file-system...

Andes Voyager RISC-V Micro-ATX Board Seeing Patches For Mainline Linux Support

Phoronix - Sun, 05/04/2025 - 18:11
As another alternative to the likes of the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V developer board, the Andes Voyager is in the process of seeing patches reviewed for mainline Linux kernel support...

Rust Use Within The QEMU Emulator Shaping Up Well

Phoronix - Sun, 05/04/2025 - 04:50
The QEMU processor emulator that plays an important role in the open-source Linux virtualization stack has been seeing experimental support for the Rust programming language developing within its codebase. There continues to be good progress being made on this Rust support as more QEMU components get ported over to this programming language for memory safety and other security benefits...

Labwc 0.8.4 Ships More Usability Improvements For This Wayland Compositor

Phoronix - Sat, 05/03/2025 - 20:30
Labwc 0.8.4 is out as the newest stable update to this wlroots-based, window-stacking Wayland compositor...

GNOME's Blueprint Markup Language Making Progress For GTK4 UIs

Phoronix - Sat, 05/03/2025 - 18:49
Blueprint is a currently-experimental markup language and compiler for crafting GTK4 user interfaces. Blueprint allows declaratively creating GTK UIs and aims to be a very easy and nice developer experience...

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