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      Bcachefs Submitted For Review - Next-Gen CoW File-System Aims For Mainline

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 May, 2023

    In development for over a half-decade already has been Bcachefs as a copy-on-write (CoW) file-system born originally out of the Linux kernel's block cache code. On Tuesday the Bcachefs patch series was sent out for review and hopeful inclusion into the kernel by lead developer Kent Overstreet...
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      AMD GFX941 & GFX942 GPU Targets Added To LLVM Compiler

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 May, 2023

    Going back to last year there's been AMD GFX940 work within the LLVM compiler for its AMDGPU compiler back-end. That AMD GFX940 should align to the Instinct MI300 while introduced to the latest LLVM compiler code today are new GFX941 and GFX942 targets...
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      Linux 6.5 To Boast Improved Handling For Intel Hybrid CPUs With Hyper Threading

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 May, 2023

    Going back to last August were Intel patches to help Intel hybrid CPU handling on Linux by avoiding unnecessary task migrations within SMT domains. Coming this summer those Intel patches are finally set to arrive with the Linux 6.5 kernel cycle...
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      Lighttpd 1.4.70 Adds Native Windows Build Support, Faster CGI Spawning

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 May, 2023

    A new version of Lighttpd is out today, the BSD-licensed, open-source web server that focuses on being very speedy and lightweight on CPU and memory resources...
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      Failing A PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD In Less Than 3 Minutes Without Extra Cooling

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 May, 2023

    Following the Corsair MP700 PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD review under Linux with many readers being surprised by file-system errors when not adding extra cooling like the motherboard's passive M.2 heatsink and being curious about the situation myself, here are more tests of ultimately how this drive will reliably hit file-system errors in three minutes or less without added cooling...
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      Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Enables GPL By Default While Hiding Mesh Shaders

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 May, 2023

    Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan Linux driver within Mesa is now enabling graphics pipeline libraries (GPL) functionality by default but at the same time has demoted their Vulkan mesh shader functionality to being hidden behind an environment variable until some unexplained hangs can be sorted out...
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      D8VK v1.0 Released For Running Direct3D 8 Games Atop Vulkan

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 May, 2023

    While D9VK is used by Steam Play for implementing Direct3D 9/10/11 APIs atop Vulkan and there is also VKD3D-Proton for Direct3D 12 on Vulkan, D8VK's aim is for the aging Microsoft Direct3D 8 API atop Vulkan for enhancing the experience of older games on Linux...
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      Alpine Linux 3.18 Released -Powered By Linux 6.1 LTS, Musl Libc 1.2.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 May, 2023

    Alpine Linux 3.18 is out today as the newest feature release for this lightweight Linux distribution built with musl libc and Busybox while being popular for embedded and container use-cases...
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      Corsair MP700: PCIe 5.0 NVMe SSD But Not Without Issues

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 May, 2023

    Last week Corsair announced the MP700 series as their first PCIe 5.0 NVMe solid-state drives. While the performance is quite speedy for sequential reads and writes, in practice this drive struggled under Linux with real-world workloads. When not adding an after-market heatsink, the MP700 was quick to exhibit EXT4 file-system errors.