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      Linux 7.4-rc2 Change Yields As Much As 162x Improvement For FAT32

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:21

    In addition to a FAT32 optimization yielding as much as a 265x improvement that was merged for the Linux 7.4 cycle and separately another big FAT32 improvement expected for Linux 7.5, merged this week as part of the non-MM fixes for Linux 7.4-rc2 was another big FAT32 performance optimization...
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      Arch Linux vs. CachyOS vs. Omarchy 4.5 Performance Benchmarks

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:55

    With CachyOS recently having rolled out its Linux 7.3 based kernel and various other improvements plus with Omarchy 4.5 having been released this week, this article provides a look at how CachyOS and Omarchy are competing on the performance front relative to upstream Arch Linux.
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      Linux x86 32-bit Patches Clean Old Kernel Code After Recently Removing Vintage CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:11

    With the Linux kernek having phased out i486 CPU support and dropping old AMD Elan SoC code along with removing other obsolete and stagnate 32-bit x86 hardware support, some x86 32-bit clean-ups are proceeding along with being able to make the kernel depend unconditionally now on some features...
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      Canonical Reviving Their Immutable Ubuntu Core Desktop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 October 2026

    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 • 28 October 2026

    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 • 28 October 2026

    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 • 28 October 2026

    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 • 28 October 2026

    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 • 28 October 2026

    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...