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System76-Scheduler 2.0 Released With PipeWire Integration, Performance Optimizations

Phoronix - Wed, 04/26/2023 - 03:45
Last year the Pop!_OS software developers at System76 introduced system76-scheduler as a Rust-written user-space daemon intended to auto-configure CFS and dynamically manage process priorities. They've added various features to improve the Linux desktop responsiveness and performance while today they rolled out system76-scheduler v2.0 as the latest iteration of this process scheduler...

Fedora 39 Wants To Ensure Your ESP Is Big Enough

Phoronix - Wed, 04/26/2023 - 02:25
The latest feature planning around Fedora 39 for releasing later this year is around ensuring your EFI System Partition (ESP) is large enough for new functionality moving forward...

Git 2.40.1 & Other Updates Due To Three New Security Vulnerabilities

Phoronix - Wed, 04/26/2023 - 01:56
Git 2.40.1 is out today due to three new security vulnerabilities being disclosed. Due to those security fixes there are also Git updates for prior stable series with v2.39.3, v2.38.5, v2.37.7, v2.36.6, v2.35.8, v2.34.8, v2.33.8, v2.32.7, v2.31.8, and v2.30.9...

Intel Submits Long-Awaited Shadow Stack Support For Linux 6.4

Phoronix - Tue, 04/25/2023 - 23:33
While Intel Shadow Stack support has been around since Tiger Lake CPUs as part of Intel's Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET), finally for the Linux 6.4 kernel is this security feature being enabled with the mainline Linux kernel...

FFmpeg Now Works With VA-API On Windows Thanks To Microsoft

Phoronix - Tue, 04/25/2023 - 21:14
VA-API has been around for more than one decade as the most common Linux Video Acceleration API that works across multiple GPU/driver vendors. It's been Linux-focused to this point while thanks to the work of Microsoft has begun seeing support on Windows...

Mesa's Rusticl Driver Adds Optional OpenCL FP64 Support

Phoronix - Tue, 04/25/2023 - 20:34
The newest feature added by Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst to the Rusticl Mesa OpenCL open-source driver is FP64 support...

EXT4 Sees Some Performance Optimizations, Folio Conversion With Linux 6.4

Phoronix - Tue, 04/25/2023 - 20:20
While often times the EXT4 file-system driver updates for new Linux kernel merge windows can be rather mundane given the maturity of this widely-used Linux file-system, this time around for Linux 6.4 it's a bit more exciting...

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