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      Firefox 156 Available With Its Built-In PDF Viewer Starting Up To 45% Faster

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:09

    Mozilla today published their Firefox 156.0 release binaries ahead of the official Tuesday announcement...
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      Linux 7.3 Delivering Some Performance Gains On Intel Panther Lake / Framework Laptop 13 Pro

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:42

    Linux 7.1 brought some performance improvements for Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake", Linux 7.2 enhanced the performance for the integrated Arc B390 Xe3 graphics, and now for the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel are various performance improvements at large. Today's article is looking at the performance of the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel compared to Linux 7.2 stable using the Core Ultra X9 388H within the Framework Laptop 13 Pro.
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      Removing Drivers For Outdated ARM Platforms Will Lighten The Kernel By ~247k Lines

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:32

    The Linux kernel is going to see the removal of a number of recently deprecated ARM 32-bit platforms. Following the deprecation in Linux 7.3, removing the old ARM platforms will lighten the kernel by around 55k lines of code. But removing now unused drivers only relevant to those platforms will mean roughly a quarter million lines of code can be removed from the kernel source tree...
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      Linux 7.4 Could End Up Seeing Kernel Builds ~36% Faster, Incremental Builds ~70% Faster

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:31

    Earlier this month I wrote about a patch series posted to the Linux kernel mailing list that addressed a lot of "hideous code" to make Linux kernel builds faster. A number of single-threaded bottlenecks were tracked down and fixed within the Linux kernel thanks to the assistance of AI. A second revision of those patches hit the mailing list this morning and there is hope they could be upstreamed for Linux 7.4...
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      Linux Patched For Silent User-Space Data Loss Bug That's Existed Since 2023

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:13

    Being merged after yesterday's Linux 7.3-rc3 release was an important fix for addressing a silent, user-space data loss bug that has existed in the kernel the past three years...
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      Linux 7.3-rc3 Released: "Another Fairly Large RC"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    Out today is the third weekly release candidate of Linux 7.3 as this next kernel version works its way toward a stable release in the second half of October...
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      BFS File-System Being Removed For Linux 7.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    The latest upstream file-system to be removed from the mainline Linux kernel is... BFS...
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      ARCTIC's Fan Controller Driver For Linux Being Dual-Licensed With BSD-2-Clause

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Earlier this year ARCTIC published a fan controller driver for Linux. Besides being rare for an enthusiast-oriented company to publish a Linux driver themselves where typically it's left up to the open-source community for driver support for such peripherals, it was all the more interesting as they published the Linux driver and got it mainlined before the product was even released. In the end the ARTCIC Fan Controller is the best desktop fan controller for Linux and less than $10 USD. That open-source driver is now being dual-licensed to help with in bringing it to more operating systems...
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      GNOME Shotwell 33 Photo Manager Released With GTK4 Port

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    It's been quite some time since hearing any news out of the Shotwell photo manager project for GNOME, but out today is Shotwell 33 with the long-awaited GTK4 port...