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The Linux Plumbers Conference blog has a report from the sched_ext microconference held in Prague. Three main topics dominated the discussions Priority inversion and how to handle it in sched_ext: lock holder and lock waiter preemption, time slice extension, and making proxy execution work together with BPF schedulers. Paravirtualized scheduling: letting the host and guest schedulers cooperate across the VM boundary, with sched_ext as the policy engine on the host. Device and topology-aware scheduling: using hardware feedback (Intel HFI), device/accelerator locality and cache topology to drive task placement.
The open-source D7VK project that implements the Direct3D 7 / 6 / 5 / 3 APIs atop the Vulkan API for faster, modern performance is out with a new release. This new D7VK 2.4 release came as a bit of a surprise since it was just last month D7VK announced its maturity status and more or less in maintenance mode. But brought up in today's D7VK 2.4 announcement is an even bigger surprise: there's now an implementation of the 3Dfx Glide API atop Vulkan...
Turns out, I didn't have to work hard to get a semi-Googlebook experience in Linux
APT 3.3.5 improves dependency solver performance by up to 20%, reduces page faults by 65%, and updates repository signing-key handling.
China's AI stocks lost $480 billion. But SK Hynix posted record profits and says RAM stays scarce till 2030. Bubbles pop, prices don't.
Canonical resumes Ubuntu Core Desktop development, outlining plans for an immutable, Snap-based desktop that could eventually become Ubuntu's default.
Armbian Imager 2.5 open-source utility for flashing Armbian Linux on single-board computers is now available for download with new features and many improvements.
Ubuntu maker Canonical is bringing Ubuntu Core Desktop back from the dead, and this time, they mean business.
System76 previews Thelio Prime, an 11-liter Linux desktop featuring AMD Ryzen processors, NVIDIA RTX graphics, and a November 18 launch.
Summit contributors weigh in on which would be better: Quitting Microsoft 365 cold turkey or a gradual withdrawal. The post DrupalCon Rotterdam Focuses on Digital Sovereignty and Microsoft 365 appeared first on FOSS Force.
System76 unveils Thelio Prime as a Linux-powered mini PC running the Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS distribution with the COSMIC desktop environment.
Love terminal apps but hate opening a terminal every time to use them? Here’s how you can add them to your desktop’s app launcher and dock.
Mesa 26.2.6 is is now available for download as a bug fix update to the Mesa 26.2 series, focusing on driver-specific corrections across AMD, Intel, Qualcomm, ARM, and software rendering backends.
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