Wayland Protocols 1.48 Released With XDG Session Management
…Wayland Protocols 1.48 also has updates to the text input protocol for resolving various issues that came up over the years. And then there are also new experimental protocols for xx…
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FSMOUNT_NAMESPACE Feature Coming For Linux 7.1
…7.1 merge window barring any objections from Linus Torvalds or any other last minute issues. Linux 7.2 Expected To Introduce "OPENAT2_REGULAR" To Avoid Tricking Secure Programs OpenZFS 2.4…
2D CAD Design Tool For GNOME Desktop Lands More Features
…0 The GNOME-Aligned RustConn Connection Manager Continues Piling On More Features GNOME Fixes Screencasting Issue With H.264 Recordings Being ~18x Larger Than VP8 GNOME's Maps, Graphs, RustConn & Other App…
WQ_AFFN_CACHE_SHARD Merged For Linux 7.1: Significant Win For CPUs With Many Cores Per LLC
…While this issue is most observable on today's high-end Intel / AMD / Arm high core count processors, even for a 12-core system with a single shared L3 cache, Oracle engineer…
FreeBSD Updates Its Graphics Driver Port From Linux 6.12 LTS
…At least in moving to Linux 6.12 LTS, FreeBSD's drm-kmod has support for a number of newer Intel and AMD Radeon graphics hardware along with performance improvements and new…
Google Proposes JSIR As A High-Level IR For JavaScript
…Zhixun Tan of Google's compiler team issued a request for comments (RFC) today on JSIR that builds off in part of the work of the LLVM and MLIR communities. Most JavaScript…
Linux AF_ALG Crypto Code Removing Zero-Copy Support Out Of Security Concerns
…Originally AF_ALG was intended to be used to access hardware crypto accelerators. However, it isn't an efficient interface for that anyway, and it turned out to be rarely used in…
D7VK v1.8 Continues Improving Legacy Direct3D Atop The Vulkan API
…Released this weekend was D7VK v1.8 that now has proper support for ProcessVertices calls implemented on the CPU, which in turn fixes a number of rendering issues across a variety of…
GNOME 51 Could End Up Replacing System Tools With "Resources" App
…0 The GNOME-Aligned RustConn Connection Manager Continues Piling On More Features GNOME Fixes Screencasting Issue With H.264 Recordings Being ~18x Larger Than VP8 GNOME's Maps, Graphs, RustConn & Other App…
A Lot Of Memory Management "MM" Improvements Merged For Linux 7.1
…A newer effort is the ability to reset that counter by writing zero to the sysfs file if wanting to clear it out after clearing prior cruft/issues on the system without…