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XFS With Linux 6.9 Brings Online Repair Improvements
Joining the other file-systems seeing notable updates for Linux 6.9, the XFS file-system is seeing continued work around online repair support and other improvements...
Hyprland Wayland Compositor Celebrates Two Years With A New Release
The Hyprland customizable Wayland compositor with dynamic tiling is celebrating its two year milestone by issuing v0.37 (and a v0.37.1 paper bag release)...
Linux 6.9 Change Allows Old Macs Using Firewire To Enjoy Virtualization Support
The PCI subsystem updates were merged this week for the Linux 6.9 kernel. Among the changes are the usual code churn around device-specific quirks and tuning of the power management code...
SDL Storage API Merged For SDL 3.0
Going back years but documented in 2022 has been a desire for the SDL hardware/software abstraction layer popular with cross-platform games to offer an abstracted file-system API. That's finally come to reality with the new SDL_Storage interface added for SDL 3.0...
New Gestures Code Squeezes Into GNOME 46
While the GNOME 46 desktop is being released next week, one of the very last minute feature items being merged hit the Mutter codebase on Friday...
Mold Linker Jumps From v2.4.1 To v2.30 To Resolve GNU libtool Compatibility
Mold 2.30 is out this weekend as the newest version of this open-source high speed linker alternative to GNU Gold/LD and LLVM LLD...
Steam Play receives Nvidia Reflex through VKD3D-Proton update on Linux - Notebookcheck.net
Steam Play receives Nvidia Reflex through VKD3D-Proton update on Linux Notebookcheck.net
RadeonSI OpenGL CTS Tests Running ~30% Faster With Mesa 24.1
Open-source AMD Linux graphics driver engineer Marek Olšák who is known for his focus on the Gallium3D code has shown no signs of slowing down when it comes to discovering new areas to further enhance the performance and tune the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...
Initial IBM Power11 Enablement Begins With Linux 6.9
As noted a month ago that IBM was starting on Power11 CPU/platform enablement for the mainline Linux kernel, indeed the first batch of Power11 code has now been merged for the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel...
An Open-Source Driver Effort Has Begun For Rockchip's NPU
Tomeu Vizoso who recently has been working on extending the Etnaviv open-source graphics driver to also support the Vivante NPU IP has made great progress on that with competitive performance to the proprietary NPU driver and upstreaming the Teflon framework into Mesa for handling the Neural Processing Unit. Tomeu Vizoso has now shifted his attention to working on an open-source, reverse-engineered NPU driver for the AI hardware found in various Rockchip SoCs...
Back up Your Linux Server with Borgmatic - The New Stack
Back up Your Linux Server with Borgmatic The New Stack
Bcachefs Multi-Device Users Should Avoid Linux 6.7: "A Really Horific Bug"
If you were feeling adventurous and began using the Bcachefs file-system upon its introduction in Linux 6.7 mainline and using it for a multi-device setup, you are best off upgrading to Linux 6.8 as soon as possible due to known issues with the code in v6.7...
KDE Continuing To Land More Fixes, Eye More Features For Plasma 6.1
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his latest weekly development summary to outline all of the new KDE features and bug fixes that have come about for the KDE desktop and apps over the past week...