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      Benchmarking Bcachefs 1.38.6: The First Release No Longer "Experimental"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 June 2026

    Released last week was Bcachefs 1.38.6 with a host of performance improvements to this out-of-tree, copy-on-write file-system. Given all the performance improvements and this being the first release since Kent Overstreet dropped the "experimental" flag on the file-system, I decided to fire up some benchmarks looking at how the Bcachefs file-system performance has changed with this new version.
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      Xfce Wayland Compositor Sees First Preview/Alpha Release

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 June 2026

    Over the past half-year, Xfwl4 has been developed as a Wayland compositor for the Xfce desktop environment. Released this weekend was the first preview release of Xfwl4 in alpha form...
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      Linux Finally Lands Battery/Charger Driver For 14 Year Old Microsoft Surface RT Tablet

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 June 2026

    It's been 14 years already since Microsoft announced the Surface RT hybrid tablet as their first-generation Surface device for going up against the Apple iPad. All these years later, this NVIDIA Tegra 3 powered device is finally seeing a mainline Linux kernel driver for supporting battery and charger status...
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      AMD Updates ROCDXG To Deliver Better ROCm Experience On WSL

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 June 2026

    Back in March AMD introduced ROCDXG to improve their Windows Subsystem for Linux support. This improved Windows Subsystem for Linux "WSL" support with the ROCm compute stack is a cleaneer architecture, open-source compared to their legacy WSL code having closed bits, and more robust handling. Today they issued a new ROCDXG library release to further enhance their WSL support...
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      Miracle-WM Mir-Based Wayland Compositor Aiming For v1.0 Later This Year

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 June 2026

    Miracle-WM 0.10 released on Sunday as the newest feature release for this Mir-based Wayland compositor. With this new release is also acknowledgement they are hoping to cross the "1.0" milestone later in the year...
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      Valve Creates The Ray-Tracing Inspector "RTI" To Help Further Optimize Linux GPU Drivers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 June 2026

    Merged today to Mesa 26.1 is the Ray-Tracing Inspector "RTI" as a new GUI created by developers on Valve's open-source Linux graphics team. The Ray-Tracing Inspector is designed to help in analyzing and optimizing the Vulkan ray-tracing performance as part of their continued work on further bettering the Radeon RADV RT performance for Steam Play / Linux gaming...
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      OneXPlayer Configuration Driver Merged For Linux 7.2 Along With Other New Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 June 2026

    The HID subsystem updates have landed in the Linux 7.2 kernel with some treats that will excite Linux gamers and other desktop users...
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      Linux 7.2 sched_ext Continues Working Toward Sub-Scheduler Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 June 2026

    Merged last week for the Linux 7.2 kernel were all of the sched_ext changes for this extensible scheduler support that allows loading BPF programs from user-space for handling scheduling tasks. Linux 7.2 continues building out sched_ext's sub-scheduler support...
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      Early AMD GCN GPUs Seeing Improved GPU Recovery - Another Valve-Led Linux Improvement

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 June 2026

    Early AMD Radeon Graphics Core Next "GCN" GPUs are seeing work to improve the GPU recovery process in the event of hangs. This work is yet another improvement for older AMD GPUs being led by Valve's open-source Linux graphics driver team...