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GTK Adds "Reduced Motion" Accessibility Option To Follow macOS, Windows & Others

Phoronix - Sat, 11/08/2025 - 09:15
In addition to GNOME's Mutter compositor removing its X11 back-end support to focus exclusively on Wayland while keeping around XWayland client support, another notable GNOME change this week was the GTK toolkit adding a "reduced motion" accessibility option...

NILFS2 File-System Seeing Renewed Interest With Additional Maintainer

Phoronix - Sat, 11/08/2025 - 05:19
It's been a while since having anything major to talk about with the NILFS2 file-system but it looks like that could be changing. NILFS2 as a reminder is a log-structured file-system with continuous snapshotting with its NILFS predecessor having been in the mainline kernel for two decades since the mid Linux 2.6 days...

Mesa 25.3-rc4 Brings Fix For Many Steam Play Games To Properly Run On Intel Linux Driver

Phoronix - Sat, 11/08/2025 - 02:02
Mesa 25.3-rc4 is available for testing as the latest weekly candidate as we work toward the Mesa 25.3 stable release this month...

Hyprland 0.52 Released With New Features For This Wayland Compositor

Phoronix - Sat, 11/08/2025 - 01:08
Hyprland 0.52 is available today as the latest feature update for this alternative Wayland compositor...

IncusOS Announced As Immutable Linux OS With ZFS For Running Containers

Phoronix - Sat, 11/08/2025 - 00:57
It has been two years already since the Linux Containers project forked Canonical's LXD project as Incus. Now joining the Incus family is IncusOS as an immutable Linux OS built atop a Debian base with OpenZFS file-system support and designed around running containers with Incus...

Intel's Rewrite Of Linux MM CID Code Showing Some Nice Gains For AMD

Phoronix - Fri, 11/07/2025 - 23:25
Posted last month were new Linux kernel scheduler-related patches rewriting the MM CID management code. The main takeaway for end-users from this set of 19 Linux kernel patches from an Intel engineer was seeing 14~18% improvement in a PostgreSQL database benchmark but that more benchmarks were needed. Curiosity got the best of me and I recently tested these patches on an AMD EPYC server to seeing some very enticing results for this in-development code.

D7VK Aims To Deliver Direct3D 7 Atop Vulkan

Phoronix - Fri, 11/07/2025 - 23:18
DXVK is an important piece of Steam Play (Proton) that over time expanded to supporting Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 and even D3D8 too. Meanwhile VKD3D-Proton delivers Direct3D 12 atop Vulkan. Now there is a fork of the DXVK project working to bring Direct3D 7 support atop Vulkan...

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