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      Linux Kernel's LZ4 Compression Code Being Resynced For Better Performance & Cleanliness

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:16

    In addition to the Linux kernel's Zstd compression code being improved, the LZ4 compression code within the kernel tree is also seeing a separate set of enhancements...
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      Intel Delivers A Significant Memory Hotplugging Performance Optimization For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:49

    Adding to the features expected to land for Linux 7.4 is a significant performance optimization for the memory hotplugging speed for adding additional RAM. In particular, the memory hotplugging being most applicable for cases like expanding the amount of memory for VMs or in today's CXL world for adding additional system memory...
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      New Linux Patches For Supporting Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon G14's Second Webcam

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:33

    For those considering Lenovo's recently launched and beautifully crafted ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 14 laptop powered by Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake", one of the lingering missing features under Linux will hopefully soon be addressed: its second web camera...
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      New Patch Series Working Toward DRBD 9 Support In The Linux Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:23

    Earlier this year developers at LINBIT began working toward a goal of upstreaming ~15 years worth of their Distributed Replicated Block Device changes into the mainline Linux kernel. That major update has yet to land but sent out this week was a new patch series in preparing the trek toward introducing DRBD 9 support in the mainline kernel...
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      Improved GPU Reset Coming For Raspberry Pi Boards With Linux 7.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:45

    In addition to this week's DRM-Misc-Next pull request introducing some new HDMI 2.0 helpers for the DRM drivers, the pull request also introduced improved GPU reset support for the Broadcom V3D GPU with the VC4 kernel driver...
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      "Toolpak" Being Devised By GNOME OS Developers, Akin To Flatpak For Tools

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 hours ago

    GNOME developer Jordan Petridis published a blog post today to introduce the world to the Toolpak plans for GNOME OS...
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      MM Change Slated For Linux 7.4 Yields +22904539.81% In One Metric, More Modest Wins In Others

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Queued this week into the slab/for-next Git branch ahead of next month's Linux 7.4 merge window is a memory management change for refilling pre-filled sheaves from the barn. In some cases this yields wild improvements to specific synthetic benchmarks...
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      AI Bug Fixes, Crescent Island Power Brake & Nouveau Fixes For Linux 7.3-rc5 DRM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem fixes for the week are heavier on the side with many fixes to these kernel graphics/display drivers ahead of Sunday's Linux 7.3-rc5 release...
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      Wisp Makes It Easier To Manage Btrfs Snapshots From The GNOME Desktop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Wisp is a new GNOME Shell extension making it easier to graphically manage Btrfs file-system snapshots...