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wlroots Merges Wayland Color Management / HDR Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March

The wlroots library used by the Sway compositor and other Wayland compositors has merged support for the color-management-v1 protocol that is notable for enabling High Dynamic Range (HDR) display use under Linux...

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Dasharo Platform Driver Aims To Enhance The Experience Using This Coreboot Downstream

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March

The consulting firm 3mdeb's Dasharo open-source firmware distribution derived from Coreboot could soon feature improved integration under Linux thanks to a pending ACPI platform driver...

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Redis-Forked Valkey 8.1 Released - Turns To AVX2 For Better Performance

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March

It's been just over one year since the Linux Foundation and partners announced Valkey as a fork of Redis. Following the release of Redis 8.0 in September for this in-memory key-value database, Valkey 8.1 is out today...

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Linux 6.15 exFAT Can Delete Files Much Faster: 4+ Minutes To 1.6 Second Optimization

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March

For those dealing with exFAT formatted storage devices under Linux, the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel has a big optimization for yielding much faster delete performance when making use of the "discard" mount option...

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AMD Software Advancements, RDNA4 & Ryzen 9900X3D Series Excited Linux Users In Q1

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March

With Q1 drawing to an end, here is a look back at the most popular Linux/open-source news and Linux hardware reviews around AMD during the quarter on Phoronix. With 109 AMD news articles so far this quarter around their Linux software/hardware efforts and another 20 AMD Linux hardware reviews / featured benchmark articles, they continue firing on all cylinders for pushing both their client and server wares forward outside the confines of Windows...

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FreeBSD On Laptops Sees New Power Management Driver, WiFi 4 / WiFi 5 Progress

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March

Over the past number of months there has been an effort underway to improve FreeBSD laptop support with financial backing by Dell, AMD, and Framework among others. This has resulted in power management improvements, increasing the focus on WiFi driver support for FreeBSD, and related areas to make FreeBSD on laptops more appealing and relevant in 2025...

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Firefox 137 Release Brings VA-API Accelerated H.265 On Linux

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March

The Mozilla Firefox 137 release binaries are now available ahead of the official release set for Tuesday...

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Linux 6.15 Introduces SPI Offloading, Converts More Drivers To The Faux Bus

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March

Greg Kroah-Hartman on Sunday submitted all of the "char/misc" patches for the Linux 6.15 merge window for this random catch-all area of the kernel with small drivers and other random/obscure hardware support...

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PostgreSQL Lands Batch Mode & Other Async I/O Improvements

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March

Last week PostgreSQL merged support for IO_uring that can provide for "considerably faster" performance of this popular open-source database server. Over the weekend some additional improvements were merged to the asynchronous I/O "AIO" code to PostgreSQL, including introducing a new batch mode that can also provide a performance win...