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Zstd Improvement For Linux 7.4 To Avoid Redundant Initialization
1+ day, 3+ hour ago (211+ words) In addition to Usama Arif's recent Linux patches for addressing a major inefficiency within the Linux kernel's Zstd compression code, he also has a separate patch series destined for Linux 7.4 to further enhance the Zstd compression/decompression performance by avoiding…...
BFS File-System Being Removed For Linux 7.4
1+ day, 6+ hour ago (180+ words) The latest upstream file-system to be removed from the mainline Linux kernel is... BFS... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals BFS File-System Being Removed For Linux 7.4 Michael Larabel is the…...
EROFS Disables LZ4 Rolling Decompression Due To Data Corruption Possibility
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (196+ words) The EROFS read-only file-system popular for embedded systems, containers, and other use-cases has resorted to temporarily disabling its LZ4 rolling decompression support due to data corruption concerns... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating…...
Void Linux Maintainer Orphans 100+ Packages Over AI Policy Dispute
2+ day, 2+ hour ago (192+ words) A Void Linux maintainer has orphaned more than 100 packages he maintained over a dispute of the project's AI policy for LLM-generated text... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Void Linux…...
KDE Plasma 6.8 Remote Desktop To Enjoy Lower Latency Performance
2+ day, 7+ hour ago (191+ words) Along with KDE Plasma 6.8 beta releasing this week, there were some other interesting Plasma changes this week worthy of a shout-out... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals KDE Plasma 6.8 Remote…...
GCC 13.5 Released With 265+ Bug Fixes
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (210+ words) For those continuing to rely on the GCC 13 compiler in production that debuted more than three years ago, GCC 13.5 released today with more than 265 bug fixes. GCC 13.5 also caps off the GCC 13 series as the last planned point release... - Categories…...
Git 2.56-rc0 Released With Updated Contribution Guidelines, Improvements For Swift
3+ day, 7+ hour ago (207+ words) While still ultimately working toward Git 3.0 with SHA-256 hashes by default and the "main" branch name by default, among other breaking changes (and potentially coming around the end of 2026), Git 2.56-rc0 is now available for testing... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics…...
Prominent Mesa Developer Now Working For Arm On PanVK & Panfrost Code
3+ day, 4+ hour ago (207+ words) Erik Faye-Lund who has contributed to the Mesa 3D graphics driver stack working on areas like Zink and most notably the PanVK Vulkan and Panfrost Gallium3D drivers forr Arm Mali hardware is now working directly for Arm... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics…...
Patches Ready For AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Enabled By Default With Linux 7.4 With FreeSync, VRR & ALLM
3+ day, 6+ hour ago (254+ words) Linux 7.4 is now set to reach the elusive milestone of HDMI 2.1 support for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver. After the HDMI Forum previously rejected HDMI 2.1 for the AMDGPU open-source driver implementation going back years, earlier this year something changed -- widely…...
Linux's IO_uring Sees Some "Crazy" Patches That Deliver Very Nice Improvements
3+ day, 1+ hour ago (215+ words) Linux block subsystem maintainer and IO_uring lead developer Jens Axboe continues to uncover new opportunities for making the wonderful IO_uring framework even more performant within the Linux kernel. For ending out the week he's posted some "crazy" patches delivering some significant gains......