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Mold 2.38 Linker Adds Support For LLVM's CREL Format

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 April

Mold 2.38 is out this weekend as the latest feature update to this open-source, high-speed linker...

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Zblock Compressed Slab Memory Allocator Looks Like It Could Be Coming In Linux 6.16

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 April

Ahead of the Linux 6.16 merge window opening up in just one month, the new Zblock allocator was queued up into Andrew Morton's "MM" tree of memory management material likely destined for the next kernel merge window. Zblock is showing much potential as a compressed slab memory allocator...

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Fair DRM Scheduler v4 Running Well On Steam Deck, "Looks Solid"

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 April

Tvrtko Ursulin of Igalia has been pursuing the Fair DRM Scheduler as a "fair" scheduling policy to help with multiple applications/processes aiming to make use of the GPU concurrently. With this week's v4 patch-set to the DRM Fair Scheduler there are some big code changes but overall looking well as a nice scheduling policy for multiple apps/games/processes wanting equal access to GPU resources...

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Linux 6.15-rc4 To Fix The Kernel Crashing For 32-bit Systems With Too Much RAM

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 April

With the Linux kernel now limiting 32-bit systems to 4GB of memory even with the "HIGHMEM" Kconfig option, an issue was uncovered where if the system was still populated with more memory than addressable by 32-bit systems, the kernel would crash. With the Linux 6.15-rc4 kernel due out on Sunday, this issue will be addressed...

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GNOME Mutter Adds Support For Tablet Pad Relative Dials On Wayland

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 April

A new Wayland-only feature merged for GNOME 49's Mutter is support for tablet pad relative dials. These dials found on some drawing tablets now allow for relative moment under the GNOME Wayland session when paired with recent libinput and libwacom releases...

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KDE Developers Prepare More Wayland Improvements For Plasma 6.4

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 April

As we near the end of April, KDE developers remain quite busy working on more enhancements for the Plasma 6.4 desktop while many of them were also meeting this week in Graz, Austria for further development and planning...

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Newer Arm Mali GPUs Now Advertising Vulkan 1.2 Support With Mesa's PanVK Driver

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 April

Following recent Vulkan 1.1 support within Mesa for the PanVK driver for open-source Arm Mali Vulkan driver support, Vulkan 1.2 is now being advertised...

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Intel 200S Boost Performance Mode Benchmarks On Linux

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 April

This week Intel announced "200S Boost" for Core Ultra "Arrow Lake" K-Series desktop processors as effectively a new overclocking profile rolling out to existing Z890 motherboards via a BIOS update. Enabling the 200S Boost profile is said to help with low-latency workloads like gaming by allowing higher fabric / die-to-die / memory frequencies. While some Windows benchmarks have begun emerging for the Intel 200S Boost mode and some limited gains, I was curious about the performance under Linux so here are some 200S Boost benchmarks with the Core Ultra 9 285K on Ubuntu 25.04.

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Linus Torvalds Expresses His Hatred For Case-Insensitive File-Systems

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 April

Linus Torvalds is sharing some of his classic and straight-to-the-point wisdom today over file-systems with case-folding / case-insensitive file and folder support...