Sony DualSense Controller Audio Jack Handling Ready For Linux 6.18 In addition to the patches providing haptic touchpad support for Linux 6.18, another notable HID addition queued into the "hid-next" tree ahead of the imminent Linux 6.18 merge window is proper audio jack handling with the Sony PlayStation DualSense controller...

Sony DualSense Controller Audio Jack Handling Ready For Linux 6.18 - Phoronix

In addition to the patches providing haptic touchpad support for Linux 6.18, another notable HID addition queued into the 'hid-next' tree...

SquashFS Optimization Achieves 15,277x Performance In Developer Benchmark SquashFS developer Phillip Lougher posted a patch today just over one hundred lines of code yielding an outright massive performance gain for some operations with this compressed. read-only file-system...

SquashFS Optimization Achieves 15,277x Performance In Developer Benchmark - Phoronix

SquashFS developer Phillip Lougher posted a patch today just over one hundred lines of code yielding an outright massive performance gain for some ...

Haptic Touchpad Support Expected For Linux 6.18 The upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel is expected to land initial haptic touchpad support as part of the HID subsystem updates...

Haptic Touchpad Support Expected For Linux 6.18 - Phoronix

The upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel is expected to land initial haptic touchpad support as part of the HID subsystem updates.

New Patches Optimize EXT4 Online Defragmentation For Better Performance A set of 13 patches were posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list for optimizing the online defragmentation handling by the EXT4 kernel driver. The online defragmentation improvements for EXT4 can net a nice performance win with a very significant improvement in a variety of scenarios...

New Patches Optimize EXT4 Online Defragmentation For Better Performance - Phoronix

A set of 13 patches were posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list for optimizing the online defragmentation handling by the EXT4 kernel driver

FFmpeg Lands Support For AHX, ADPCM Silicon Graphics N64 Decoder Beyond the continued flow of new performance optimizations via hand-written Assembly, with the FFmpeg project it's also interesting to monitor their ever-expanding scope of supported audio/video formats. The newest to land in FFmpeg Git is support for AHX audio files...

FFmpeg Lands Support For AHX, ADPCM Silicon Graphics N64 Decoder - Phoronix

Beyond the continued flow of new performance optimizations via hand-written Assembly, with the FFmpeg project it's also interesting to monitor...

Qt 6.10 RC Available For Testing With Native PipeWire Audio Back-End Out today is the Qt 6.10 release candidate for this forthcoming toolkit release...

Qt 6.10 RC Available For Testing With Native PipeWire Audio Back-End - Phoronix

Out today is the Qt 6.10 release candidate for this forthcoming toolkit release.

RPM 6.0 Released With OpenPGP Improvements & Enforces Signature Checking By Default RPM 6.0 is out today as the newest major update to the RPM Package Manager as the package management system most commonly associated with Red Hat / Fedora, openSUSE, Mageia / OpenMandriva, and others...

RPM 6.0 Released With OpenPGP Improvements & Enforces Signature Checking By Default - Phoronix

RPM 6.0 is out today as the newest major update to the RPM Package Manager as the package management system most commonly associated with Red Hat /...

Linux 6.18 Adding A New Power Savings Option For The Intel Graphics Driver Queued up into DRM-Next is a last batch of Intel Xe kernel graphics driver improvements ahead of the Linux 6.18 merge window that is expected to begin next week. With this last minute Intel Xe driver activity is also a new power management knob for those wanting to run their Intel graphics slightly more efficient...

Linux 6.18 Adding A New Power Savings Option For The Intel Graphics Driver - Phoronix

Queued up into DRM-Next is a last batch of Intel Xe kernel graphics driver improvements ahead of the Linux 6.18 merge window that is expected to be...

Vulkan 1.4.327 Introduces A New Valve Vendor Extension Version 1.4.327 of the Vulkan API specification was released on Friday and with it comes one new extension, which is a Valve vendor extension...

Vulkan 1.4.327 Introduces A New Valve Vendor Extension - Phoronix

Version 1.4.327 of the Vulkan API specification was released on Friday and with it comes one new extension, which is a Valve vendor extension.

Git Developers Debate Making Rust Mandatory Developers behind the Git distributed revision control system are debating whether to make Rust programming language support mandatory...

Git Developers Debate Making Rust Mandatory - Phoronix

Developers behind the Git distributed revision control system are debating whether to make Rust programming language support mandatory.