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It's Looking Like sched_ext Will Try Again To Land For Linux 6.12

Phoronix - Sun, 08/18/2024 - 19:06
While Linus Torvalds was hoping to merge the sched_ext extensible scheduler for the Linux v6.11 kernel cycle, that didn't end up happening after some technical issues were raised on the kernel mailing list. Since then though the kernel developers have been collaborating and given the latest sched_ext patches with "for-next" and "for-6.12" markings, it's looking like the extensible scheduler will be attempted again for the Linux 6.12 merge window...

Bcachefs Merges New On-Disk Format Version For Linux 6.11, Working Toward Defrag

Phoronix - Sun, 08/18/2024 - 18:36
Ahead of the Linux 6.11-rc4 kernel release coming up later today, some more Bcachefs file-system patches were merged this weekend for this experimental copy-on-write file-system...

More NVK Driver Improvements Merged For Mesa 24.3

Phoronix - Sun, 08/18/2024 - 18:20
Faith Ekstrand has merged another two dozen patches for the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver with next quarter's Mesa 24.3...

Lab Wayland Compositor 0.8 Released, Ported To wlroots 0.18

Phoronix - Sat, 08/17/2024 - 22:50
Lab Wayland Compositor "labwc" v0.8 is now available as the newest release of this Wayland compositor that has been re-based against the wlroots 0.18 Wayland library...

Vulkan 1.3.293 Released With NVIDIA Command Buffer Inheritance Extension

Phoronix - Sat, 08/17/2024 - 20:42
Vulkan 1.3.293 released on Friday as the newest specification for this industry standard graphics and compute API. In addition to a handful of fixes/clarifications, Vulkan 1.3.293 introduces a new NVIDIA vendor extension...

GNOME Session & GDM Can Now Be Built Without X11 Support

Phoronix - Sat, 08/17/2024 - 18:55
Following the recent work to Mutter and GNOME Shell that was merged for allowing to build with X11 support disabled, the GDM display manager and GNOME-Session code have also seen the ability added to compile without X11 support...

Archinstall 2.8.2 To Speed Up Arch Linux Installations, Other Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 08/17/2024 - 18:47
Archinstall is the wonderful command-line driven installer that was introduced to the Arch Linux ISOs three years ago for making it quicker and easier to get a customized Arch Linux installation. Out today is Archinstall 2.8.2 to further refine that experience...

KDE Implements More Wayland Bits, Lowers Bug Count To Match Plasma 5 Stability

Phoronix - Sat, 08/17/2024 - 18:28
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly recap that highlights all of the interesting KDE desktop changes to have landed over the past week...

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