The Brutalist Report

Phoronix

• Linux Enacts Guidance To Tighten Acceptance Of New File-Systems Into The Kernel [26d]
• KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Finally Comes To Slackware [26d]
• Btrfs Now Enables Large Folios By Default, Lands Huge Folios With Linux 7.2 [26d]
• Wayland's Weston 16 Alpha Brings HDR Improvements, Vulkan Renderer Fixes [26d]
• Linux 7.2 Improves Anonymous/Unnamed Pipe Performance For Shell Pipelines & More [26d]
• Intel Compute Runtime Now Advertises Early Support For Nova Lake, Introduces Experimental "LEO" [26d]
• Linux 7.2 Can Significantly Lower Container Exit/Unmount Latency [26d]
• Linux 7.2 Adds Ability To Limit Programs To Only Open Regular Files, Avoid Being Tricked Or Doing Silly Things [26d]
• Wine Wayland Lands Fractional Scaling Support [26d]
• Linux 7.2 Continues Removing Old i486 Code Remnants, Adds Rugged Panther Lake [26d]
• XFS Zone Allocator No Longer Experimental With Linux 7.2 [26d]
• Linux 7.2 Power Management Adds New Hardware Support While Dropping AMD Elan [26d]
• KDE Plasma 6.7 Released With Per-Screen Virtual Desktops, Wayland Improvements [26d]
• Linux 7.2 Drops Driver For The 40+ Year Old Hercules Monochrome ISA Graphics Card [26d]
• FreeBSD 15.1 Released With Updated WiFi Drivers, Better C23 Support & Other Improvements [27d]
• Linux 7.2 Optimization Shows +5% IOPS For EXT4 & XFS After Moving Around Two Lines Of Code [27d]