Bcachefs Hopes To Remove "EXPERIMENTAL" Flag In The Next Year
Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet has submitted all of the Bcachefs file-system feature patches for the Linux 6.12 kernel merge window. In his pull request he also lays out his ambitions to remove the "EXPERIMENTAL" flag from Bcachefs within the ...
Updated XZ Code Lands In Linux 6.12
The kernel patches collected by Andrew Morton were upstreamed today for the Linux 6.12 kernel. Among those changes are pulling in the updated XZ Embedded code...
Phoronix Premium Deal For Oktoberfest 2024
While there sadly the previously-annual Phoronix meet-up at Oktoberfest in Munich remains defunct, in honor of Oktoberfest 2024 kicking off today in Munich, it's time for the annual Phoronix Premium special. With the Oktoberfest sale you can go ad-free...
SDL Now Prefers Vulkan Over Direct3D 12 On Windows
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...
The Fastest AArch64 Linux Distribution On The 192-Core AmpereOne
When it comes to the question of the fastest x86_64 Linux distribution the answer is very easy with Intel's Clear Linux. But what about in the AArch64 world? When having the AmpereOne server in the lab curiosity got the best of me and I ran benchmarks ...
