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Elementary OS 8.1 Switches Over To Wayland Session By Default

Phoronix - Tue, 12/23/2025 - 02:38
Thirteen months after the release of Elementary OS 8.0, Elementary OS 8.1 is now available for this Ubuntu 24.04 LTS based Linux distribution that focuses on ease of use and usability. With Elementary OS 8.1 they have transitioned to using the Wayland session by default...

Lua 5.5 Released With Declarations For Global Variables, Garbage Collection Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 12/23/2025 - 01:25
Five years after releasing Lua 5.4, Lua 5.5 debuted today as the newest version of this lightweight and embeddable scripting language...

Linux 6.19's Significant ~30% Performance Boost For Old AMD Radeon GPUs

Phoronix - Mon, 12/22/2025 - 23:14
For those still using old AMD GCN 1.0 "Southern Islands" or GCN 1.1 "Sea Islands" graphics cards, the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel is a wonderful holiday gift. With Linux 6.19, the GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs are now defaulting to the modern AMDGPU kernel driver in place of the legacy "Radeon" DRM driver that has been the default for GCN 1.1/1.0 and other ATI/AMD graphics processors of the past 2+ decades. In this article is a look at the performance benefit of now AMDGPU being the default as well as now enabling RADV Vulkan support out-of-the-box.

Rex: Proposed Safe Rust Kernel Extensions For The Linux Kernel, In Place Of eBPF

Phoronix - Mon, 12/22/2025 - 22:18
University researchers presented Rex at this month's Linux Plumbers Conference 2025 in Tokyo. Rex is designed for "safe and usable" Rust-based kernel extensions that could serve in place of eBPF programs for extending the Linux kernel functionality...

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