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Sway 1.11-rc1 Released With Many New Features & New Wayland Protocols

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Sunday, 20 April - 12:02

Sway 1.11-rc1 is out today as a test release ahead of this next Wayland compositor feature release. Sway 1.11 is bringing a number of new features for this i3-inspired Wayland compositor while also building off the new features laid out in the recent wlroots 0.19-rc1 library...

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FreeType Fixes Inefficient Code Causing 10x Startup Time Hit When Loading Arial TTF Font

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Sunday, 20 April - 10:33

The FreeType library for rendering text onto bitmaps that is widely used by a variety of applications has landed a set of three patches today providing an important performance improvement to address a significant inefficiency within the existing FreeType codebase...

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Linux 6.13 Series Ends With The Linux 6.13.12 Release

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Sunday, 20 April - 10:19

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released a few new Linux kernel stable point releases today for Easter and also capping off the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle in the process...

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OpenVPN DCO Driver Queued In Net-Next Ahead Of Linux 6.16

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Sunday, 20 April - 10:00

The long-in-development OpenVPN DCO kernel driver for providing data channel offloading (DCO) to yield faster OpenVPN performance looks like it's now in a state for upstreaming with the Linux 6.16 kernel...

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HFS/HFS+ File-System Driver Support For Linux May End Up Being Maintained

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Sunday, 20 April - 00:48

Just a few days ago there was talk of potentially removing the Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers from the Linux kernel considering they had been orphaned for a decade and beginning to cause a maintenance burden. After briefly being marked for deprecation, it now looks like the drivers may be maintained with new maintainers alleging to step-up to the role...

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Intel Simplifies Its Firmware License For The Integrated Sensor Hub "ISH"

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Saturday, 19 April - 19:22

The Intel Integrated Sensor Hub "ISH" allows for offloading sensor polling and other tasks to a low-power co-processor to help reduce overall system power consumption for extending battery life with tablets, embedded devices, and 2-in1 laptops...

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Linux 6.16 Could See AMD SEV-SNP SVSM vTPM Driver Merged For EPYC CPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Saturday, 12 April - 13:16

The Linux 6.16 kernel this summer will likely see the new SNP SVSM vTPM driver introduced for further enhancing the AMD EPYC confidential computing capabilities atop the mainline Linux kernel...

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A Fresh Take On Virtual Swap Space Being Pursued For The Linux Kernel

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Saturday, 12 April - 10:55

A request for comments (RFC) patch series sent out this week for the Linux kernel is working on the notion of Virtual Swap Space support. The notion of Virtual Swap Space has been talked about for years and even going back to 2011 there's been efforts to redesign the kernel's swap cache along similar lines...

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KDE Plasma 6.4 Lands Initial Support For The Wayland Session Restore Protocol

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Saturday, 12 April - 10:46

It's been a very exciting week in the KDE Plasma space with the start of a big new feature landing for the Plasma 6.4 desktop...

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