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Debian Dropping Its 32-bit MIPS Little Endian "mipsel" Port

Phoronix - Sun, 09/03/2023 - 03:11
Debian developers will be discontinuing their 32-bit MIPS little-endian "mipsel" CPU architecture port moving forward...

EROFS Lands DEFLATE Compression, F2FS Improves Zoned Devices In Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Sun, 09/03/2023 - 00:49
The EROFS read-only file-system and F2FS Flash Friendly File-System were among the FS updates to land this week for Linux 6.6 -- in addition to marking ReiserFS as obsolete...

David Airlie Shares His Thoughts On Current Challenges With Linux GPU Compute Stacks

Phoronix - Sat, 09/02/2023 - 20:49
Sriram Ramkrishna at Intel, who serves as the community manager and developer relations for oneAPI, held a virtual oneAPI meetup this week with Red Hat's David Airlie. Airlie should not need any introduction for longtime Phoronix readers given his longtime contributions to the Linux kernel graphics drivers, Mesa, and related open-source graphics work at Red Hat. Airlie shared some interesting remarks around the current Linux GPU compute stacks from the different vendors and associated challenges...

Linux 6.6 Perf Events Prepare For Intel's Crestmont In Grand Ridge & Sierra Forest

Phoronix - Sat, 09/02/2023 - 18:52
The perf event changes were submitted this week for the ongoing Linux 6.6 kernel merge window with changes this cycle for Intel, AMD, and Arm...

Vulkan 1.3.263 Released With A New NVIDIA Extension

Phoronix - Sat, 09/02/2023 - 18:35
There wasn't any big Vulkan spec update for SIGGRAPH this year but the frequent point releases continue rolling on for this high performance graphics and compute API...

Tmpfs Gains New Features With Linux 6.6

Phoronix - Sat, 09/02/2023 - 18:26
The tmpfs file-system that keeps all of its data within virtual memory has gained a few new features with Linux 6.6, including the long-awaited quota support to better protect against malicious users that could try to consume all of your system RAM...

KDE Plasma 6 & KWin See More Performance Tuning This Week

Phoronix - Sat, 09/02/2023 - 18:09
While leading up to a US holiday weekend, KDE developers haven't let up in their development activities around Plasma 6.0 and associated application work. KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly development summary to outline all of the interesting changes for the week...

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