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Intel Linux Graphics Driver Gets Patch To Help With Pixelflut Competition

Phoronix - Thu, 03/13/2025 - 18:44
A lot of Linux 6.15 intended patches by Intel for their kernel graphics driver have accumulated like enabling Xe3 "dirty rect" mode, SVM for the Xe driver, EU stall sampling, GuC power profile tuning, and more. Yesterday another drm-intel-gt-next pull request was submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 merge window...

Zed Editor Rolls Out Native Git Integration

Phoronix - Thu, 03/13/2025 - 18:24
The Zed Editor as a modern IDE-focused text editor for programmers and developed by some of the Atom editor creators continues on quite a roll. Over the past year Zed has rolled out native Linux builds, added various AI features and also began open-sourcing its own edit prediction model. For enhancing the developer experience in more basic form, Zed has now added native Git integration...

Mesa 25.1 To Enable Working Chromium VA-API Support

Phoronix - Thu, 03/13/2025 - 18:09
A new set of Gallium3D video acceleration front-end patches by AMD contractor David Rosca allow for the Google Chromium/Chrome browser code to enjoy working VA-API accelerated video decoding with the open-source Mesa drivers...

Proposed Patches Would Allow Using Linux Kernel's libperf From Python

Phoronix - Thu, 03/13/2025 - 17:58
A set of patches from IBM would introduce a C extension module for the Linux kernel's libperf code to allow usage from the Python programming language...

How to Automatically Restart a Failed Service in Linux

Tecmint - Thu, 03/13/2025 - 16:36
The post How to Automatically Restart a Failed Service in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

In a Linux system, services (also called daemons) play a critical role in handling various tasks such as web hosting,

The post How to Automatically Restart a Failed Service in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Red Hat's Stratis 3.8 Delivers New Features

Phoronix - Thu, 03/13/2025 - 08:32
It's been a while since a new Stratis feature release for this Red Hat led effort to enhance local storage management on Linux systems. Stratis was born out of a desire to provide Btrfs/ZFS-style features atop the mature XFS file-system and the Device Mapper (DM) subsystem and they have continued pushing that goal for RHEL and other Linux environments...

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