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      New NTFS File-System Driver Submitted For Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:25

    Making today very exciting in Linux 7.1 merge window land was a pull request being sent out for introducing the new, modern NTFS file-system driver. Linus Torvalds has yet to comment if he's going to merge the new driver but it looks like it's ready for providing a better Linux NTFS experience over the current NTFS3 driver that was upstreamed by Paragon Software a few years ago and hasn't seen too much feature progress...
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      Proton 11.0 Beta Released With More Games Playable On Steam Play

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    Valve and CodeWeavers have just released Proton 11.0 Beta as their first beta milestone for this software that powers Steam Play now rebased against upstream Wine 11.0...
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      Linux 7.1 sched_ext Brings cgroup Sub-Scheduler Groundwork, Idle SMT Sibling Change

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    The extensible scheduler "sched_ext" code for allowing Linux scheduling behavior to be defined via BPF programs is seeing some useful improvements with the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel...
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      Mir 2.26 Begins Working On Rust-Based Input Platform

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    Canonical today released Mir 2.26 as the newest feature release for this compositor for building Wayland-based shells. Notable with Mir 2.26 is a Rust-based input platform is in development as part of their broader effort for bringing Rust code into Mir...
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      New Media Drivers Merged For Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    The media subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.1 merge window and includes new hardware support...
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      Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus Performance In 340+ Linux Benchmarks

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    Last month Intel began shipping the Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus "Arrow Lake Refresh" desktop processor. This is a mighty interesting processor for the $349 USD price point with more cores and a larger cache compared to the Core Ultra 7 265K and capable of delivering much of the performance of the flagship Core Ultra 9 285K Arrow Lake processor. In today's article is a look at how well the Intel Core Ultra 7 270K Plus performs under Linux with more than 340 different benchmarks representing a range of Linux workloads from gaming to creator to developer and technical computing uses.
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      AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 Adds i686 User-Space Packages

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    The community-based AlmaLinux OS alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) continues exploring ways to better differentiate it from upstream RHEL and other derivatives. The latest difference is AlmaLinux OS Kitten 10 adding i686 user-space packages for those wanting to run on a RHEL 10 based platform but still needing x86 32-bit user-space software compatibility...
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      Rust 1.95 Released With Several Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    Rust 1.95 was released to the wild today as the latest feature update to this popular programming language...
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      Linux Mint 23 Making Progress On Ubuntu 26.04 Base, Linux 7.0 Kernel & Wayland

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    The Linux Mint project published their March 2026 monthly status update where they note the ongoing work toward Mint 23 "Alfa" that will be released under their new longer development lifecycle. Linux Mint 23 will be out for Christmas (December) 2026 atop an Ubuntu 26.04 LTS base...