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Linux 6.16-rc5 Released With A Performance Fix, Bcachefs Fixes & New Device Support

Phoronix - Mon, 07/07/2025 - 05:24
Linus Torvalds just tagged Linux 6.16-rc5 as the newest test release of Linux 6.16...

Wayland 1.24 Released With Few Improvements

Phoronix - Sun, 07/06/2025 - 21:15
Minutes ago Simon Ser announced the official release of Wayland 1.24...

Many NGG Improvements Arrive For AMD's Open-Source Linux OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers

Phoronix - Sun, 07/06/2025 - 21:00
Well known AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák has been working on a number of improvements to benefit the Next-Gen Geometry "NGG" support within the RadeonSI and RADV graphics drivers for benefiting modern Radeon GPUs under Linux...

Fedora 43 Looks To Zstd-Compressed Initrd By Default For Space Savings & Faster Boots

Phoronix - Sun, 07/06/2025 - 18:44
A change proposal has been raised to compress the initrd by default using Zstd compression rather than XZ. This change would help provide some disk savings as well as speeding up the boot process on modern systems with Fedora Linux...

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