Hans Reiser Apologies For Social Mistakes, Comments On ReiserFS Deprecation From Prison (www.phoronix.com)
Bcachefs Lands Another Round Of Fixes For Linux 6.7 (www.phoronix.com)
PipeWire 1.0 Released For Managing Audio/Video Steams On The Linux Desktop (www.phoronix.com)
Fedora 40 Looks To Ship AMD ROCm 6 For End-To-End Open-Source GPU Acceleration (www.phoronix.com)
AMD P-State Preferred Core Support For Linux Tried A 13th Time (www.phoronix.com)
Steam Linux Marketshare Surges To Nearly 2% In November (www.phoronix.com)
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Firefox 121 Is Looking Good For Having Wayland Enabled By Default (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.8 Network Optimizations Can Boost TCP Performance For Many Concurrent Connections By ~40% (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....
The Linux Kernel Preparing To Drop Infrastructure For Old & Obsolete Graphics Drivers - Phoronix (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.
Benchmarking The Experimental Ubuntu x86-64-v3 Build For Greater Performance On Modern CPUs (www.phoronix.com)
Wayland Protocols 1.33 Released With DMA-BUF Stable, Adds Transient Seat Protocol (www.phoronix.com)
The Linux DMA-BUF protocol for Wayland is widely used these days and supported by multiple compositors for negotiating optimal buffer allocation parameters between clients and compositors. The current fifth version of linux-dmabuf was marked as stable with it working out well and no need for any other changes before removing the...
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....
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)
Acer Aspire 1 ARM Laptop Has Nearly Complete Upstream Linux Support (www.phoronix.com)
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)
Firefox 121 Now Available With Wayland Enabled By Default (www.phoronix.com)
Power Management Bugs Hold Up Some Linux Laptops Due To Regulatory Requirements (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.