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F2FS With Linux 6.10 Delivers Better Performance On Zoned Storage

Phoronix - Tue, 05/21/2024 - 18:58
There's a lot of file-system activity going on for the Linux 6.10 merge window: Bcachefs safety improvements, better OCFS2 write performance, continued XFS online repair, and even a "mail-in merge request" from prison for ReiserFS. The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) has also seen some new feature work this cycle and has now been merged...

Hangover 9.9 Adds Support For Using The NTSYNC Driver

Phoronix - Tue, 05/21/2024 - 18:51
André Zwing continues hacking on the Hangover project as a means of running Windows applications on AArch64 Linux by leveraging Wine and pairing it with emulators like QEMU, FEX, or Box64. Besides the initial AArch64/ARM64 focus, Hangover can be important for bring Windows game/application on Linux support eventually to other architectures like POWER and RISC-V...

GCC 13.3 Compiler Released With Tons Of Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Tue, 05/21/2024 - 18:23
While GCC 14 recently debuted as stable in the form of GCC 14.1, for those relying on the GCC 13 compiler that debuted last year there is now a new point release available with many bug fixes...

Linux 6.10 Adds Support To Reset CXL Devices

Phoronix - Tue, 05/21/2024 - 18:12
In addition to the CXL updates for Linux 6.10 that were sent in last week, the PCI subsystem updates this week bring a notable addition for Compute Express Link (CXL) devices...

Qt 6.7.1 Released With 400+ Fixes - Including Several Wayland Fixes

Phoronix - Tue, 05/21/2024 - 18:03
The Qt Company today released Qt 6.7.1 as the first point release for the cross-platform Qt 6.7.1 toolkit. Since releasing Qt 6.7 just under two months ago, they have fixed more than 400 bugs...

Linux 6.10 Adds eDP/DisplayPort Support For The Snapdragon X Elite

Phoronix - Tue, 05/21/2024 - 17:56
Qualcomm and their partners at Linaro have been busy working on the Linux support for the Snapdragon X Elite as the high-end Arm SoC beginning to roll-out for laptops. The latest Snapdragon X Elite upstreaming is Embedded DisplayPort and DisplayPort support for the Snapdragon X Elite...

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