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      Intel Releases x86-simd-sort 2.0 With Faster AVX-512 Sorting, New Algorithms

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 June, 2023

    Earlier this year Intel software engineers published a blazing fast AVX-512 sorting library that was initially picked up by Numpy where it netted them 10~17x faster sorts. Today marks the release of x86-simd-sort 2.0 with even more AVX-512 features in place and additional sorting algorithms added...
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      Firewalld 2.0 Released With Faster Forwarding Performance Via NFTables Flowtable

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 June, 2023

    The Firewalld open-source firewall daemon has been in development since 2011 while only two years ago did it reach the Firewalld 1.0 milestone. Thus it was a bit surprising to find Firewalld 2.0 being released today...
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      Two Fedora Spins Eye Going X.Org-less

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 June, 2023

    The Fedora Sericea and Sway spins are eyeing the possibility of shipping without the xorg-x11 packages for being the first X.Org-less desktop spins in the Fedora Linux world...
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      Linux 6.5 To Bring Better NUMA Awareness For The NFSD/RDMA Server

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 June, 2023

    Among the early pull requests already submitted for the Linux 6.5 merge window that is expected to open next week are the Linux NFS server (NFSD) changes. Notable this cycle is the NFSD and RDMA server code having better NUMA awareness...
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      SDDM 0.20 Display Manager Released

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 June, 2023

    SDDM as the QML-based X11 and Wayland display manager commonly used on KDE systems and elsewhere is finally out with a new release...
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      GNOME Mutter Lands Nice Optimization For Wayland Gaming

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 June, 2023

    Merged this week into the GNOME Mutter compositor codebase is what should be a beneficial optimization for those enjoying Linux gaming under the GNOME Wayland session...
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      Mesa Turns To BLAKE3 For Faster Vulkan Shader Hashing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 June, 2023

    Mesa has switched from SHA1 to BLAKE3 for its shader hashing to deliver better performance...
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      FLAC 1.4.3 Released With More Optimizations, Drops PowerPC-Specific Code

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 June, 2023

    FLAC 1.4.3 is out today as the first update to this Xiph.Org royalty-free, lossless audio codec since last October...
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      Fedora May Make It Easier To Switch To systemd-boot, Making A GRUB-Free System

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 June, 2023

    A change proposal that hopes to take place for Fedora 39 would make it easier to have an optionally GRUB-free system by instead performing a clean install with systemd-boot for booting on EFI platforms...