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Miracle-WM Mir-Based Wayland Compositor Aiming For v1.0 Later This Year

Phoronix - Mon, 06/22/2026 - 19:12
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...

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

Phoronix - Mon, 06/22/2026 - 18:33
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...

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

Phoronix - Mon, 06/22/2026 - 18:18
The HID subsystem updates have landed in the Linux 7.2 kernel with some treats that will excite Linux gamers and other desktop users...

Linux 7.2 sched_ext Continues Working Toward Sub-Scheduler Support

Phoronix - Mon, 06/22/2026 - 17:59
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...

How to Resize ext4 Partitions and Filesystems in Linux

Tecmint - Mon, 06/22/2026 - 13:20
The post How to Resize ext4 Partitions and Filesystems in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

resize2fs is the tool that lets an ext4 filesystem use the extra space you’ve added to a partition. Without it,

The post How to Resize ext4 Partitions and Filesystems in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Early AMD GCN GPUs Seeing Improved GPU Recovery - Another Valve-Led Linux Improvement

Phoronix - Mon, 06/22/2026 - 08:37
Early AMD Radeon Graphics Core Next "GCN" GPUs are seeing work to improve the GPU recovery process in the event of hangs. This work is yet another improvement for older AMD GPUs being led by Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver team...

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