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      Benchmarking Some Incredible Performance Gains With Btrfs On Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:18

    With the Btrfs pull request for Linux 7.3 having delivered more performance optimizations with some ~3x and ~5x gains mentioned in specific areas, I was eager to test out the new Btrfs performance on the in-development kernel. In today's article are some benchmarks of Btrfs on Linux 7.2 stable compared to Linux 7.3 Git with some very enticing performance gains confirmed in various workloads.
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      Apple Launches The M6 2nm 12-core CPU, Quad-Die M5 Ultra

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:30

    Apple today unveiled the M6 as their first 2nm SoC design while also introducing the M5 Ultra as their first quad-die product...
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      The Modern NTFS Linux Driver Adds Read Support For Windows System Compression (WOF)

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:19

    The pull requests for the existing Paragon NTFS3 kernel driver as well as the new modern "NTFS" drivers have been submitted for the ongoing Linux 7.3 kernel cycle. Besides bug fixes, most notable among these NTFS file-system drivers are Windows System Compression "WOF" read support for the modern NTFS driver...
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      Linux 7.3 Device Mapper Sees Many Fixes, Including Code Cleanups By Claude Opus

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:22

    The Linux Device Mapper "DKM" framework for mapping block devices to higher-level virtual block devices doesn't see any major new features for Linux 7.3 but there are many bug fixes, including code clean-ups carried out by AI...
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      DisplayPort 2.1 ALPM Still Being Worked On For Intel Xe3P / Nova Lake

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:25

    The in-development Linux 7.3 kernel is marking Nova Lake Xe3P graphics as stable in being enabled by default and no longer hidden behind the "force probe" flag. While on-by-default, there still are some features that have yet to land like the DisplayPort 2.1 ALPM functionality...
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      KDE Remote Desktop Experience Improving For Closing The X11 vs. Wayland Gap

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:00

    KDE developer David Edmundson is out today with a blog post around improvements that have been ongoing for the Plasma 6.8 release in improving the KDE remote desktop experience. As part of ensuring a good Wayland experience and hitting all the needs fulfilled by X11, Plasma 6.8 is seeing improvements for its remote desktop functionality...
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      Lots Of New Audio Hardware Support In Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:51

    Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE submitted all of the sound feature updates last week for the Linux 7.3 kernel. Besides the continued AI/LLM-generated patch churn, the sound code for Linux 7.3 sees a lot of new hardware support...
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      Linux 7.3 Merges Initial Kernel Driver Support For The 2026 Steam Controller

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:33

    The HID subsystem updates were recently merged for the ongoing Linux 7.3 kernel merge window. Among other hardware additions, the 2026 Valve Steam Controller is seeing initial kernel driver support...
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      Linux ath11k Driver Improvements For Qualcomm WiFi 6 Hardware Yields 7x Lower Latency

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    A patch series being worked on for the ath11k mainline wireless networking driver for Qualcomm WiFi 6 / 802.11ax chipsets is yielding 7x lower latency or 2.2x throughput at identical latency...