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      Canonical Reviving Their Immutable Ubuntu Core Desktop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:11

    Canonical engineers back in 2023 outlined plans for Ubuntu Core Desktop as their immutable Linux desktop. They made some good initial progress but since 2024 it went rather silent. Now they are reviving Ubuntu Core Desktop as their immutable desktop OS offering and with grand plans for the future...
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      CachyOS vs. Fedora 45 vs. Ubuntu 26.10 Performance On AMD Ryzen 9

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:46

    With the recently released Ubuntu 26.10 and the nearly-released Fedora Workstation 45, Phoronix readers have begun inquiring about fresh benchmarks looking at how they stack up against the performance-optimized, Arch Linux based CachyOS. Up today are our first CachyOS vs. Fedora 45 vs. Ubuntu 26.10 benchmarks on an AMD Ryzen 9 9900X3D2 desktop system.
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      NetBSD Adds Alternative Text Editor To vi & xedit For Easing New Users

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:48

    NetBSD-current has added a new command line text editor to its base set of packages for helping out new users as an alternative to their vi and xedit editors currently included...
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      X.Org XCB Co-Creator Praises Wayland's Protocol Design

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:54

    Open-source developer Jamey Sharp who is a longtime X.Org developer and co-creator of the X protocol C-language Binding (XCB) finally had the need to write a Wayland client and ended up praising its design...
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      Provenance Time Proposed As A New Timestamp For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:23

    While the Linux kernel and various file-system drivers already support the notion of the birth time for tracking a file/directory's birth/creation time, a slightly different provenance time "ptime" is now being proposed for the Linux kernel...
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      Hyprland 0.57 Released With Compiz Inspired Wobbly Windows

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:45

    For those that want to reminisce over the days long ago of Compiz and Beryl on the Linux desktop, the Hyprland 0.57 Wayland compositor released today and has added Compiz-inspired wobbly windows support...
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      VKD3D-Proton 3.1 Released With New Features Ahead Of Big v3.2 Release

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:27

    Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve's Linux team just tagged the VKD3D-Proton 3.1 release. This version comes with a number of new features and performance optimizations while being the stable point ahead of VKD3D-Proton beginning to see a lot of new feature code for what will then become VKD3D-Proton 3.2...
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      GhostBSD 26.2 Released As FreeBSD 15.1 Powered OS With New Installer

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:11

    GhostBSD 26.2 is out as the latest feature release of this FreeBSD-powered desktop operating system...
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      NTFS3 Hardened In Linux 7.4 Against Corrupted Or Maliciously-Crafted NTFS Volumes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:02

    Paragon Software's Konstantin Komarov sent out the latest NTFS3 driver updates for this in-kernel NTFS read/write driver. With Linux 7.4, the NTFS3 driver is focused on being hardened against corrupted or maliciously-crafted NTFS volumes...