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Linux Optimization Patches Significantly Speed-Up Debuggers Using /proc/kcore

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 November, 2024

A set of Linux kernel patches posted on Friday by Meta/Facebook provide for sizable performance optimizations for applications leveraging /proc/kcore such as for debuggers...

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Debcow Optimizing Debian Packages For Copy-On-Write File-Systems

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 November, 2024

Debcow is an experimental implementation of deploying Debian packages on copy-on-write file-systems like Btrfs and Bcachefs. Debcow adapts DPKG to use reflinks for installing packages. With reflinking to the file contents from the Debian package archives rather than copying of files, it can lead to a dramatic speed-up of installing Debian packages: as much as 6x faster on CoW file-systems...

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Wine-Staging 9.21 Fixes Some Old Game Crashes & Hangs Due To DirectMusic

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 November, 2024

Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.21, Wine-Staging 9.21 is available as this experimental blend of Wine that carries extra patches for testing/evaluation to enhance the ability for Windows games and apps to run on Linux...

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Niri 0.1.10 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Brings Many Improvements

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 November, 2024

If this weekend's release of Hyprland 0.45 doesn't suit your fancy, Niri is also out this weekend with a new feature release. Niri is the scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor for an interesting Linux desktop experience...

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Linux Support For Apple's Latest Magic Trackpad USB-C Model

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 November, 2024

A patch is pending for enabling support for the USB-C model of Apple's latest Magic Trackpad input device under Linux...

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Debian 12.8 Released With Many Bug Fixes & Security Updates

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 November, 2024

Debian 12.8 is out today as the latest media refresh for the "Bookworm" release with numerous security fixes along with other general bug fixes included as part of the assortment of package updates...

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Hyprland 0.45 Compositor Smooths Round Edges, Window Snapping For Floating Windows

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 November, 2024

Hyprland 0.45 released today as the newest version of this Wayland compositor focused on being an independent, very customizable, and dynamic tiling compositor...

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NVIDIA Outlines Current Wayland Limitations & Upcoming Driver Features

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 November, 2024

Longtime NVIDIA Linux engineer Aaron Plattner shared a status update on Friday around the current feature parity difference between the NVIDIA driver stack on X11 and under (X)Wayland...

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Linux 6.13 Bringing DRM Panic Support To NVIDIA GPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 November, 2024

Friday saw a final round of "drm-misc-next" feature updates ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel merge window. The DRM Panic code continues to be enhanced for improving this "Blue Screen of Death" like experience on the Linux desktop...