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      ReactOS Merges Support For Job Objects As Step To Running Modern Windows Apps

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 days ago

    Merged yesterday to the ReactOS code-base is initial support for Job Objects, which is an important milestone in the road to being able to run more modern Windows software under this open-source operating system striving for Windows driver/application compatibility...
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      Linux 7.3 Makes Preparations Toward Upstreaming FAMFS File-System

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 days ago

    The NVDIMM and direct access (DAX) patches have been merged for the Linux 7.3 cycle. Most of the DAX/NVDIMM activity this cycle is on making preparations for the upcoming submission of Micron's FAMFS file-system...
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      GCC Patch Adjusting AMD Zen 5 Misprediction Cost Nets 12% Win In Benchmark

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 days ago

    An AMD compiler engineer posted a patch on Saturday for the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC). The two-line patch adjusts the misprediction cost for Zen 4 and Zen 5 processors, which ends up yielding a 12% improvement in one SPEC CPU benchmark on Zen 5 and a 9% improvement on Zen 4...
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      Linux 7.3 Introduces New AES Encryption APIs - Will Open Up More Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 days ago

    Eric Biggers of Google continues carrying out great work on the Linux kernel crypto code. For Linux 7.3 he's landed work on new library APIs for most of the AES encryption modes used within the kernel. Moving forward this will open the door to more performance optimizations, reducing code duplication, and other enhancements...
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      Linux 7.3 Input Subsystem Updates Merged With Security Fixes, Other Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 days ago

    The big set of input subsystem updates were merged earlier this week for the Linux 7.3 cycle. It's a random assortment of different improvements as well as bug/security fixes driven in part by the flow of AI/LLM generated discoveries...
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      eCryptfs Sees Fixes For Potential Malicious Intent, Some Dating Back To Its 2006 Debut

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 days ago

    The eCryptfs stacked cryptographic filesystem implementation for the Linux kernel to transparently encrypt files saw a number of bug fixes for the Linux 7.3 kernel. A number of these bug fixes deal with potential maliciously-crafted data and vulnerable going back to the 2006 introduction of eCryptfs as this option known for its use on Ubuntu home directory encryption and Chrome OS...
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      Redox OS Switches To EEVDF-Based Scheduler For 2.6x Throughput

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 days ago

    The Rust-written, from-scratch Redox OS operating system has switched to using an EEVDF based scheduler design. In doing so they are promoting a 2.6x increase in throughput and a 782x improvement in fairness...
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      Apple HFS / HFS+ File-System Support Continues Seeing Fixes With Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 days ago

    In early 2025 it was being discussed to potentially drop the HFS and HFS+ file-system support with the code having been orphaned over a decade and becoming a maintenance burden. But that dismal outlook quickly turned around with some developers stepping up to maintain the old Apple file-system support. Over a year later, fortunately, it's turned out to be a success story with more HFS/HFS+ file-system fixes continuing to work their way into the mainline Linux kernel...
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      Longtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Steps Down

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 days ago

    There is a changing of the guard with Linux 7.3 as the maintainer of the Common Internet File System (CIFS) / SMB3 code within the Linux kernel. Longtime maintainer, principal Linux CIFS author, and current Microsoft employee Steve French has stepped down due to health reasons...