Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance For Many Concurrent Connections By ~40% (www.phoronix.com)
GNOME Shell & Mutter 46 Alpha Released - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.8 To Introduce New Intel Xe & PowerVR Graphics Drivers, Prepare For New AMD & Intel CPUs (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.7 should be released later today as the first stable kernel of 2024. In turn the Linux 6.8 merge window will then open tomorrow and run for the next two weeks. For those curious about the features expected for Linux 6.8, here’s an early look at some of the changes expected to land for that next kernel cycle....
Benchmarking The Experimental Ubuntu x86-64-v3 Build For Greater Performance On Modern CPUs (www.phoronix.com)
KDE's Nate Graham On X11 Being A Bad Platform & The Wayland Future (www.phoronix.com)
Well known KDE developer Nate Graham is out with a blog post today outlining his latest Wayland thoughts, how X11 is a bad platform, and the recent topic of “Wayland breaking everything” isn’t really accurate....
Intel Arrow Lake Sound Support Ready For Linux 6.8 (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.8 To Add Intel Idle Driver Support For Sierra Forest & Grand Ridge (www.phoronix.com)
Wayland-Proxy Load Balancer Helping Firefox Cope With Wayland Issues (www.phoronix.com)
Among the Firefox Wayland bugs, one of the top crash bugs is over a lost connection to a Wayland compositor. For dealing with it is to have a proxy between Firefox and the Wayland compositor to cache messages and prevent compositor message queue overflows.
QEMU 8.2 Released With New VirtIO-Sound & VirtIO-GPU "Rutabaga" Devices (www.phoronix.com)
Debian Likely Moving Away From i386 In The Near Future (www.phoronix.com)
Acer Aspire 1 ARM Laptop Has Nearly Complete Upstream Linux Support (www.phoronix.com)
Firefox 121 Now Available With Wayland Enabled By Default (www.phoronix.com)
KDE Plasma Mobile 6 Porting Underway (www.phoronix.com)
openSUSE Logo Contest Concludes With Winners Selected (www.phoronix.com)
For those that were interested in the openSUSE logo contest, the voting wrapped up on Tuesday and the results of this logo contest for new openSUSE branding have been selected.
Power Management Bugs Hold Up Some Linux Laptops Due To Regulatory Requirements (www.phoronix.com)
GNOME's Dynamic Triple Buffering "Ready To Merge" (www.phoronix.com)
Wine Wayland Driver Lands Mouselook Support, Relative Cursor Motion (www.phoronix.com)
Friday’s release of Wine 8.22 is expected to be the last bi-weekly feature release before shifting focus to the code freeze and making Wine 9.0 ready for release in early 2024. It’s coming down to the finish line how much more Wine Wayland driver functionality will be merged in time....
systemd 255 Released With A "Blue Screen of Death" For Linux Systems (www.phoronix.com)
Fedora 40 Eyes The Ability To Boot Unified Kernel Images Directly (www.phoronix.com)
Bcachefs Lands Another Round Of Fixes For Linux 6.7 (www.phoronix.com)
Steam Linux Marketshare Surges To Nearly 2% In November (www.phoronix.com)
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Another Look At The Bcachefs Performance on Linux 6.7 Review (www.phoronix.com)
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Wine Wayland Driver's Vulkan Support Is Now Usable (www.phoronix.com)
WINE The third and final part of the Vulkan enablement code for allowing Vulkan API graphics use within the Wine Wayland driver has been merged to Wine Git....
Btrfs Slated To Make Use Of New Mount API In Linux 6.8 (www.phoronix.com)
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Dropping The X.Org Server Except For XWayland (www.phoronix.com)
Red Hat has formally confirmed what many were thinking: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 will be doing away with X.Org Server support aside from XWayland....
