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      Linux 7.3-rc5 Released: "Another Week, Another Large RC"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 hours ago

    In working toward the stable Linux 7.3 kernel release hopefully on 18 October, out today is Linux 7.3-rc5 as the newest weekly test candidate...
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      Budgie 10.10.3 Released With Favorites In Budgie Menu, Labwc Bridge Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 hours ago

    Budgie 10.10.3 is out today as the newest point release to this open-source desktop...
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      Linux Kernel's LZ4 Compression Code Being Resynced For Better Performance & Cleanliness

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 hours ago

    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 • 14 hours ago

    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 • 14 hours ago

    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 • 14 hours ago

    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 • 1 day ago

    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 • 1 day 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...