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Arch Linux Powered CachyOS Pulls In THP Shrinker & AMD Cache Optimizer

The Arch Linux based CachyOS Linux distribution has issued its November 2024 media refresh. Notable this time are pulling a few performance-related patches into its kernel build...

2024-11-10 12:24

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Linux Optimization Patches Significantly Speed-Up Debuggers Using /proc/kcore

A set of Linux kernel patches posted on Friday by Meta/Facebook provide for sizable performance optimizations for applications leveraging /proc/kcore such as for debuggers...

2024-11-10 09:00

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Debcow Optimizing Debian Packages For Copy-On-Write File-Systems

Debcow is an experimental implementation of deploying Debian packages on copy-on-write file-systems like Btrfs and Bcachefs. Debcow adapts DPKG to use reflinks for installing packages. With reflinking to the file contents from the Debian package archiv...

2024-11-10 08:00

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Wine-Staging 9.21 Fixes Some Old Game Crashes & Hangs Due To DirectMusic

Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.21, Wine-Staging 9.21 is available as this experimental blend of Wine that carries extra patches for testing/evaluation to enhance the ability for Windows games and apps to run on Linux...

2024-11-10 07:13

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Linux Support For Apple's Latest Magic Trackpad USB-C Model

A patch is pending for enabling support for the USB-C model of Apple's latest Magic Trackpad input device under Linux...

2024-11-10 06:45

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Niri 0.1.10 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Brings Many Improvements

If this weekend's release of Hyprland 0.45 doesn't suit your fancy, Niri is also out this weekend with a new feature release. Niri is the scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor for an interesting Linux desktop experience...

2024-11-10 06:31

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Debian 12.8 Released With Many Bug Fixes & Security Updates

Debian 12.8 is out today as the latest media refresh for the "Bookworm" release with numerous security fixes along with other general bug fixes included as part of the assortment of package updates...

2024-11-09 16:53

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Hyprland 0.45 Compositor Smooths Round Edges, Window Snapping For Floating Windows

Hyprland 0.45 released today as the newest version of this Wayland compositor focused on being an independent, very customizable, and dynamic tiling compositor...

2024-11-09 10:19

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NVIDIA Outlines Current Wayland Limitations & Upcoming Driver Features

Longtime NVIDIA Linux engineer Aaron Plattner shared a status update on Friday around the current feature parity difference between the NVIDIA driver stack on X11 and under (X)Wayland...

2024-11-09 09:32

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Linux 6.13 Bringing DRM Panic Support To NVIDIA GPUs

Friday saw a final round of "drm-misc-next" feature updates ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel merge window. The DRM Panic code continues to be enhanced for improving this "Blue Screen of Death" like experience on the Linux desktop...

2024-11-09 08:40

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New Patches Aim To Optimize Context Switching With Two Improvements

A set of Friday night patches provide for some exciting context switching optimizations to the Linux kernel...

2024-11-09 08:16

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Microsoft Azure Linux 3.0 Update Pushes Additions For Intel, AMD & Arm

Microsoft overnight released the newest version of their Azure Linux 3.0 in-house Linux distribution that is used by a variety of internal services at the company as well as external customers...

2024-11-09 06:10

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KDE's Info Center Now Shows Multi-GPU Information, Plasma 6.3 Bringing UI Refinements

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly development recap of all the interesting Plasma desktop changes to have landed over the past week...

2024-11-09 05:57

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Mesa 24.3-rc1 Released With Big Improvements For AMD Radeon & Intel Graphics

The belated first release candidate of Mesa 24.3 is now available for testing of the upgraded OpenGL and Vulkan open-source drivers commonly used on Linux systems and elsewhere...

2024-11-08 20:34

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Wine 9.21 Brings DirectPlay Network Enhancements, I/O Completion Fixes

Following a one week delay, Wine 9.21 has been released as the latest development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux and other operating systems. We are also closing in on the approaching Wine 10.0...

2024-11-08 19:08

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OpenZFS 2.3-rc3 Adds JSON Output For Commonly Used Commands

OpenZFS 2.3 continues working its way toward release as a big step forward for this open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems...

2024-11-08 12:02

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Linux Fix Pending For Annoying Intel Lunar Lake Laptop Problems

A patch is working its way to the mainline Linux kernel for addressing an annoyance affecting new Intel Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" laptops...

2024-11-08 11:33

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Google Axion CPU With GCE C4A vs. AWS Graviton4 Performance

Last week Google announced the general availability of their C4A instances powered by their in-house Axion processors. I delivered launch-day benchmarks looking at the Google Axion CPU performance with the C4A instances compared to other Google Cloud i...

2024-11-08 09:00

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Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted To Same Tier As GNOME-Based Fedora Workstation

Earlier this year was a Fedora change proposal seeking to make KDE Plasma the default over GNOME for Fedora 42. A compromise of sorts has now been settled on with the Fedora Desktop Spin being promoted to an "Edition" status that will put it on the sam...

2024-11-08 07:00

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Intel Spots A 3888.9% Performance Improvement In The Linux Kernel From One Line Of Code

Intel's Linux kernel test robot has reported a 3888.9% performance improvement in the mainline Linux kernel as of this past week...

2024-11-08 06:40

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