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      Mozilla Firefox Usage Of zlib-rs For Better Safety & Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:46

    Since the release in May of Firefox 151, Mozilla has been relying on the zlib-rs library for Gzip compression/decompression. This subtle change to use this Rust-based Zlib implementation has yielded some performance benefits and better memory safety but also some headaches when dealing with Intel CPU bugs...
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      Linux Enacts Guidance To Tighten Acceptance Of New File-Systems Into The Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 hours ago

    There is no shortage of different file-systems available for Linux. New file-systems continue to come about in the open-source world but ultimately many of them end up not being well maintained or having very limited users and not necessarily innovating enough to make them worthwhile over other alternatives. Given the continued increase in file-systems looking to get into the Linux kernel, such as FTRFS and VMUFAT being some of the most recent and then even having multiple NTFS drivers for Linux, there is now documentation in place to formally lay out criteria for new file-systems to be accepted...
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      KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Finally Comes To Slackware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 hours ago

    It's been a while since there has been any Slackware news to pass along, but this week they've finally landed the KDE Plasma 6 desktop in this legendary Linux distribution...
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      Btrfs Now Enables Large Folios By Default, Lands Huge Folios With Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 hours ago

    The Btrfs file-system feature updates have been merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel with a few noteworthy changes for this copy-on-write file-system...
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      Wayland's Weston 16 Alpha Brings HDR Improvements, Vulkan Renderer Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 hours ago

    Wayland developers have prepared the release of Weston 16.0 Alpha 1 for this reference Wayland compositor with new features...
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      Linux 7.2 Improves Anonymous/Unnamed Pipe Performance For Shell Pipelines & More

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 hours ago

    Yet another performance optimization merged for the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel is improving the speed of anon_pipe_write, the kernel function used for writing data into anonymous/unnamed pipes such as when using shell pipelines or standard streams from applications...
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      Intel Compute Runtime Now Advertises Early Support For Nova Lake, Introduces Experimental "LEO"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    Intel's open-source Compute Runtime stack for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero on their graphics processors has been bringing up Nova Lake support since January. With today's release of the Intel Compute Runtime 26.22.38646.4, the Nova Lake Xe3P support has matured to the state of it being advertised now as under an "early support" status...
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      Linux 7.2 Can Significantly Lower Container Exit/Unmount Latency

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 hours ago

    A patch series merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel addresses a race condition that can occur when a container is exiting yielding "VFS: Busy inodes after unmount" messages and a possible user-after-free condition. But the patch series also goes further and delivers a very nice optimization to lower the container unmounting latency for environments with heavy I/O load...
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      Linux 7.2 Adds Ability To Limit Programs To Only Open Regular Files, Avoid Being Tricked Or Doing Silly Things

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    Merged as part of the many VFS changes for Linux 7.2 is the new OPENAT2_REGULAR flag for the openat2 system call. This can be used to limit programs to only open regular file-systems and avoid accidentally or intentionally opening up device files or other non-conventional data files on the file-system...