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Bcachefs Patches Aim For Faster Snapshot Deletion But With Another On-Disk Format Update

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 May

In addition to Bcachefs working on better self-healing / automatic repair capabilities, this modern copy-on-write file-system is also working on faster snapshot deletion performance. A patch series was posted this week to speed-up the deletion of snapshots though it comes with another bump to the on-disk format of the file-system...

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Andes Voyager RISC-V Micro-ATX Board Seeing Patches For Mainline Linux Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 May

As another alternative to the likes of the SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V developer board, the Andes Voyager is in the process of seeing patches reviewed for mainline Linux kernel support...

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Rust Use Within The QEMU Emulator Shaping Up Well

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 May

The QEMU processor emulator that plays an important role in the open-source Linux virtualization stack has been seeing experimental support for the Rust programming language developing within its codebase. There continues to be good progress being made on this Rust support as more QEMU components get ported over to this programming language for memory safety and other security benefits...

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Labwc 0.8.4 Ships More Usability Improvements For this Wayland Compositor

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 May

Labwc 0.8.4 is out as the newest stable update to this wlroots-based, window-stacking Wayland compositor...

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GNOME's Blueprint Markup Language Making Progress For GTK4 UIs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 May

Blueprint is a currently-experimental markup language and compiler for crafting GTK4 user interfaces. Blueprint allows declaratively creating GTK UIs and aims to be a very easy and nice developer experience...

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NVIDIA Encouraging CUDA Users To Upgrade From Maxwell / Pascal / Volta

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 May

NVIDIA CUDA 12.9 is now available as the newest minor feature update to NVIDIA's GPU compute stack. CUDA 12.9 adds compiler targetr support for SM 10.3 and 12.1, compiler support for "family-specific architectures", new NVML counters being exposed, and other minor feature improvements. The NVIDIA CUDA 12.9 documentation is also now more verbose in encouraging anyone still relying on Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta hardware to upgrade...

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FreeBSD 14.3 Beta Released Ahead Of FreeBSD 15.0 Later This Year

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 May

The first beta release of FreeBSD 14.3 was released on Friday night for testing. FreeBSD 14.3 will become the newest stable release this summer while later in 2025 we can look forward to the big FreeBSD 15.0 release...

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KDE Plasma 6.4 Tackles An 18 Year Old Feature Request, More Wayland Protocols Added

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 May

The KDE Plasma developer sprint in Graz wrapped up just days ago but there's still been no shortage of new feature work landing into Plasma 6.4 this week. It was another exciting week of feature development as the soft feature freeze approaches for Plasma 6.4...

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Wine 10.7 Brings An Exciting Performance Optimization

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 May

Wine 10.7 is out today as the newest bi-weekly release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms...