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      The Maintainer Of The NVIDIA Open-Source "Nouveau" Linux Kernel Driver Resigns

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 September, 2023

    Hours after posting a large patch series for enabling the Nouveau kernel driver to use NVIDIA's GSP for improving the support for RTX 20/30 series hardware and finally enabling accelerated graphics support on RTX 40 "Ada Lovelace" GPUs, the Red Hat maintainer has resigned from his duties...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/Nouveau-Maintainer-Resigns

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      Microsoft Releases A Big Update To Windows Subsystem For Linux, New Experimental Options

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 September, 2023

    Microsoft has published a big feature update to Windows Subsystem for Linux "WSL" for running Linux binaries within the confines of Windows 11...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/WSL-Big-September-Update

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      Nouveau Patches Posted For Running On NVIDIA GSP-RM Firmware, Initial RTX 40 Ada Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 September, 2023

    The long-awaited patches for allowing the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" upstream Linux kernel driver to leverage NVIDIA's GPU System Processor "GSP" firmware for handling GPU re-clocking and other hardware tasks with RTX 20 GPUs and newer have been posted. With this set of 44 patches also comes the initial GPU hardware accelerated support for the GeForce RTX 40 "Ada Lovelace" GPUs that is built upon this new GSP driver code path...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/Nouveau-Patches-Run-On-GSP-Blob

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      Flatpak 1.18 Released With Accent Color Support, New Clipboard & Input Capture Portals

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 September, 2023

    Flatpak 1.18 is out today as the newest stable release for this leading open-source app sandboxing and distribution tech. Flatpak 1.18 adds yet more features for this cross-distribution solution for software deployment and package management...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/Flatpak-1.18-Released

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      Linux Patches To Begin Removing ReiserFS From Default Kernel Builds

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 September, 2023

    Since March of 2022 the ReiserFS file-system has been deprecated and with Linux 6.6 ReiserFS is marked outright as "obsolete" with plans to remove the file-system from the mainline kernel code-base in 2025. In stepping toward that eventual milestone, a new kernel patch series begins removing ReiserFS from the default kernel configurations...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/ReiserFS-Drop-From-Defconfigs

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      SteamOS 3.5 Delivering Some Decent Performance Gains For The Steam Deck

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 September, 2023

    Released late on Friday was the much anticipated SteamOS 3.5 preview for the Steam Deck with ongoing work around HDR and enhancing color management, VRR for external USB-C displays, various platform issues resolved, auto-mounting external storage, and more. With SteamOS 3.5 it also means some lower-level OS upgrades too like moving to the Linux 6.1 LTS kernel. For those wondering about the performance impact of going from SteamOS 3.4 stable to the SteamOS 3.5 preview release, here are some early benchmarks on the Steam Deck.
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      www.phoronix.com /review/steamos-35-benchmarks

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      New Scheduler Optimization Can Help Out PostgreSQL & More On Sapphire Rapids

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 September, 2023

    Stemming from Intel engineers finding significant overhead in some Linux scheduler functions when running PostgreSQL within a Docker instance, a new scheduler patch is on the way for Linux 6.7 that will help out at least Ice Lake and Sapphire Rapids with some migration-heavy workloads. With the change being in the common scheduler code, it's also likely to help out other hardware platforms too...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/Linux-Sched-Postgres-SPR

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      Linux 6.7 Set To Drop Support For Itanium IA-64

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 September, 2023

    Since 2021 the Itanium IA-64 code was orphaned in the Linux kernel and over the course of this year there's been talk of retiring the Itanium code from the kernel, a.k.a. strip it out. It looks like 2023 will end with the Itanium IA-64 code indeed being removed from the Linux kernel...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/Linux-6.7-To-Drop-Itanium-IA-64

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      KDE On Wayland: "The Biggest Thing Needed Now Is Adoption By 3rd Party Apps"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 September, 2023

    Given the recent discussions stemming from Fedora 40 planning to ship KDE Plasma 6 and drop the KDE Plasma X11 session to focus solely on Wayland for the next-gen KDE desktop, prominent KDE developer Nate Graham has written a lengthy blog post to outline the current state and his thoughts on KDE Wayland support...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/KDE-Wayland-Good-Shape