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      Linux 7.3-rc4 To Address Two Unfortunate Bugs With Btrfs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:26

    Merged today were this week's set of Btrfs file-system fixes for the Linux 7.3-rc4 kernel, which include two notable bug fixes...
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      Simple Optimization For Linux 7.4 Can Open Files For Reading ~39% Faster

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    More than two years in the making, Linux 7.4 is poised to introduce a patch that amounts to a rather simple optimization to avoid unnecessary/duplicative work that can net some nice gains when opening files for reading...
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      Wine-Staging 11.18 Adds New Patches To Further Improve WoW64

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    Building off yesterday's Wine 11.18 bi-weekly development release is now Wine-Staging 11.18. This experimental flavor of Wine is presently carrying 273 extra patches over that upstream Git state, including some new patches for helping enhance the WoW64 support...
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      GNOME OS Turns To Zswap To Deal With OOM Issues, Progress On Geary Email Client Fork

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    In addition to this week's GNOME 51 release were several other exciting developments in the GNOME desktop space...
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      Intel Xe Driver For Linux 7.4 Adds vRAM Health Check, Degraded Memory Handling

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    Sent out this week were more Intel Xe kernel graphics driver changes targeting the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel cycle. The theme this week was around dealing with video memory health and also being able to better deal with hardware degraded video RAM...
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      KDE Plasma 6.8 Seeing More Polishing & Fixes, Plasma 6.9 Begins Seeing More Activity

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    Following last week's Plasma 6.8 beta release, KDE desktop developers have spent this week mostly working on bug fixes as well as some early changes toward Plasma 6.9...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 Switches To The Linux 7.3 Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    As a very pleasant surprise, the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release will now be powered by the Linux 7.3 kernel rather than their original plans and switch over to the Linux 7.2 kernel...
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      Wine 11.18 Continues Building Out Its NTOSKRNL Implementation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Wine 11.18 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and apps on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...
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      Steam Frame Making Use Of Zink For OpenGL On Vulkan

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Valve's Steam Frame VR headset that makes use of a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC with Adreno graphics is using the open-source "Turnip" Vulkan driver from Mesa as reported last year. For OpenGL it turns out that the Mesa Zink driver is being used on the Steam Frame for OpenGL atop the Vulkan API...