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Benchmarking Bcachefs 1.38.6: The First Release No Longer "Experimental"  Phoronix

Released last week was Bcachefs 1.38.6 with a host of performance improvements to this out-of-tree, copy-on-write file-system. Given all the performance improvements and this being the first release since Kent Overstreet dropped the "experimental" flag on the file-system, I decided to fire up some benchmarks looking at how the Bcachefs file-system performance has changed with this new version.

AMD release FSR Upscaling 4.1 for Radeon RX 7000 series / RDNA 3  GamingOnLinux

Over the past half-year, Xfwl4 has been developed as a Wayland compositor for the Xfce desktop environment. Released this weekend was the first preview release of Xfwl4 in alpha form...

It's been 14 years already since Microsoft announced the Surface RT hybrid tablet as their first-generation Surface device for going up against the Apple iPad. All these years later, this NVIDIA Tegra 3 powered device is finally seeing a mainline Linux kernel driver for supporting battery and charger status...

Linux Finally Lands Battery/Charger Driver For 14 Year Old Microsoft Surface RT Tablet  Phoronix

MSYS2 And The No-Fuss Way To Get More GNU Into Your Windows  Hackaday

MSYS2 And The No-Fuss Way To Get More GNU Into Your Windows  Hackaday

Back in March AMD introduced ROCDXG to improve their Windows Subsystem for Linux support. This improved Windows Subsystem for Linux "WSL" support with the ROCm compute stack is a cleaneer architecture, open-source compared to their legacy WSL code having closed bits, and more robust handling. Today they issued a new ROCDXG library release to further enhance their WSL support...

AMD Updates ROCDXG To Deliver Better ROCm Experience On WSL  Phoronix

MECCHA CHAMELEON is a hide-and-seek body painting game taking over Steam  GamingOnLinux

This Linux distro finally makes switching from Windows feel natural  How-To Geek

Miracle-WM 0.10 released on Sunday as the newest feature release for this Mir-based Wayland compositor. With this new release is also acknowledgement they are hoping to cross the "1.0" milestone later in the year...

How eBPF Empowers Developers to Observe Inside the Linux Kernel in a Safe and Unintrusive Way  infoq.com

Merged today to Mesa 26.1 is the Ray-Tracing Inspector "RTI" as a new GUI created by developers on Valve's open-source Linux graphics team. The Ray-Tracing Inspector is designed to help in analyzing and optimizing the Vulkan ray-tracing performance as part of their continued work on further bettering the Radeon RADV RT performance for Steam Play / Linux gaming...

Valve Creates The Ray-Tracing Inspector "RTI" To Help Further Optimize Linux GPU Drivers  Phoronix

The HID subsystem updates have landed in the Linux 7.2 kernel with some treats that will excite Linux gamers and other desktop users...

OneXPlayer Configuration Driver Merged For Linux 7.2 Along With Other New Hardware  Phoronix

Merged last week for the Linux 7.2 kernel were all of the sched_ext changes for this extensible scheduler support that allows loading BPF programs from user-space for handling scheduling tasks. Linux 7.2 continues building out sched_ext's sub-scheduler support...

Valve has added support for AMD FSR 4 for graphics cards. Radeon RX 7000 on Linux  GameGPU