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VFS+XFS Changes Land In Linux 6.12 To Support Block Sizes Larger Than Page Size

Phoronix - Sat, 09/21/2024 - 18:42
Linux 6.12 yesterday merged the real-time "PREEMPT_RT" patches that had been in development for two decades. Today another big hitting feature was merged for Linux 6.12 that's been in development nearly as long...

SDL Now Prefers Vulkan Over Direct3D 12 On Windows

Phoronix - Sat, 09/21/2024 - 18:17
The SDL abstraction library commonly used by cross-platform games now prefers using Vulkan on Windows as its ideal graphics API. Direct3D 12 has been demoted lower in priority compared to Vulkan for this Simple DirectMedia Layer...

KDE Optimizes How It Finds Mount Points - Up To 80% Speed-Up

Phoronix - Sat, 09/21/2024 - 18:11
KDE developers have been busy preparing for Plasma 6.2 with lots of bug fixing and polishing while also beginning to land some features for Plasma 6.3...

Oracle's UEK-Next Moves To Linux 6.10, Patches In sched_ext

Phoronix - Sat, 09/21/2024 - 17:29
Oracle has shifted their Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel to a Linux 6.10 base with UEK-next...

AMD Releases ROCm 6.2.1 With FBGEMM Support, Installation Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 09/21/2024 - 08:48
Following the AMD ROCm 6.2 release from early August, ROCm 6.2.1 was released on Friday evening as the first point release to that series for this AMD GPU compute stack for Linux systems...

Wine 9.18 Delivers New Desktop Control Panel Applet

Phoronix - Sat, 09/21/2024 - 08:16
Wine 9.18 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software that enables running Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms...

Ubuntu 24.10 Beta Released For Testing

Phoronix - Sat, 09/21/2024 - 07:05
The beta release of Ubuntu 24.10 "Oracular Oriole" was released in time for some weekend testing...

Ubuntu 24.10 Making Preparations For The Raspberry Pi Compute Module 5

Phoronix - Sat, 09/21/2024 - 00:55
For months there has been talk and speculations around Raspberry Pi working to release a Compute Module 5 (CM5) in putting the power of last year's Raspberry Pi 5 into the small form factor for various embedded/industrial applications. It's pretty much a given that the Compute Module 5 will come, it's just a matter of when. With recent activity by Canonical engineers working on Ubuntu Linux, it's looking like the CM5 could be here soon...

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