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      Chrome/Chromium Experimenting With Flatpak Packaging

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:22

    Google engineers responsible for the Chrome/Chromium web browser are experimenting with Flatpak packaging on Linux. They aren't yet committed to officially supporting Flatpak packages but for now are at least exploring the option...
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      Linux 7.0-mk2 Released For Multi-Kernel Linux With Promising Performance Results

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 hours ago

    Last year a multi-kernel architecture was proposed for the Linux kernel to allow multiple independent kernel instances to co-exist on a single physical machine. Each kernel with "multikernel" Linux can run on dedicated CPU cores whole sharing the underlying hardware resources. Linux 7.0-mk2 released today with the kernel patched for this multi-kernel behavior...
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      COSMIC Epoch 1.7 Released: No Longer Slow Browsing Network Filesystems

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 hours ago

    COSMIC Epoch 1.7 is out today as the newest update to this Rust-based open-source desktop environment with development led by System76...
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      LLVM/Clang 23.1 Released With AMD Zen 6 & NVIDIA Rigel Support, Partial C++26 Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 hours ago

    LLVM 23.1 was released today on-schedule as the first stable release of the LLVM 23 series as the H2'2026 update to this open-source compiler stack...
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      Wayland Found To Be "Intrinsically Faster Than X11, But Not Necessarily More Efficient"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    The PorteuX Linux distribution focused on being a high performance, modular, and minimalist distro took to forking Xfce's xfwm4 window manager into "xfwm4-gl" for OpenGL compositing support. As part of that they developed a window manager / compositor benchmark for evaluating the performance and efficiency of typical operations. Their results are fascinating...
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      AI/LLM Usage Becoming A "Denial of Service Attack" On Open-Source Project Maintainers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 hours ago

    The latest criticism of the increased burden placed on open-source software project maintainers caused by AI / LLM agents is around too many bug reports effectively causing a "denial of service" attack on project maintainers...
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      Benchmarking Some Incredible Performance Gains With Btrfs On Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    With the Btrfs pull request for Linux 7.3 having delivered more performance optimizations with some ~3x and ~5x gains mentioned in specific areas, I was eager to test out the new Btrfs performance on the in-development kernel. In today's article are some benchmarks of Btrfs on Linux 7.2 stable compared to Linux 7.3 Git with some very enticing performance gains confirmed in various workloads.
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      Apple Launches The M6 2nm 12-core CPU, Quad-Die M5 Ultra

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    Apple today unveiled the M6 as their first 2nm SoC design while also introducing the M5 Ultra as their first quad-die product...
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      The Modern NTFS Linux Driver Adds Read Support For Windows System Compression (WOF)

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    The pull requests for the existing Paragon NTFS3 kernel driver as well as the new modern "NTFS" drivers have been submitted for the ongoing Linux 7.3 kernel cycle. Besides bug fixes, most notable among these NTFS file-system drivers are Windows System Compression "WOF" read support for the modern NTFS driver...