Bug-Catching "Smatch" Static Analysis On The Linux Kernel Under Threat Due To Funding Gap For the past 15 years the Smatch static analysis tool has been routinely run for uncovering countless bugs within the Linux kernel. Dan Carpenter who authored Smatch and has been routinely analyzing the Linux kernel with it has authored more than 5,568 patches over the years to become one of the top bug fixers for the kernel. But his funding at Lina…

Bug-Catching "Smatch" Static Analysis On The Linux Kernel Under Threat Due To Funding Gap - Phoronix

For the past 15 years the Smatch static analysis tool has been routinely run for uncovering countless bugs within the Linux kernel

Linux 6.19 Enables Per-CPU BIO Caching By Default For Helping Performance Last week saw the main set of block and IO_uring feature patches for the Linux 6.19 merge window but some additional block subsystem material was merged on Monday. There are various NVMe updates now merged plus enabling per-CPU BIO caching by default to help with file-system performance...

Linux 6.19 Enables Per-CPU BIO Caching By Default For Helping Performance - Phoronix

Last week saw the main set of block and IO_uring feature patches for the Linux 6.19 merge window but some additional block subsystem material was m...

F2FS Brings More Performance Optimizations To Linux 6.19 The Flash-Friendly File-System "F2FS" is enjoying more performance optimizations and other improvements for the Linux 6.19 kernel cycle...

F2FS Brings More Performance Optimizations To Linux 6.19 - Phoronix

The Flash-Friendly File-System 'F2FS' is enjoying more performance optimizations and other improvements for the Linux 6.19 kernel cycle.

Rust-Based Project Aims To Provide Modern Thumbnails For Audio/Video Files On GNOME Since Showtime replaced Totem as the default video player of GNOME, the desktop has lacked thumbnail capabilities for audio and video files. But to address that defect, the Rust-based gst-thumbnailers project has been in development to leverage GStreamer and paired with Rust to provide safe thumbnail generation capabilities for audio and video content...

Rust-Based Project Aims To Provide Modern Thumbnails For Audio/Video Files On GNOME - Phoronix

Since Showtime replaced Totem as the default video player of GNOME, the desktop has lacked thumbnail capabilities for audio and video files

Mesa 26.0 Lands Initial Support For Adreno Gen 8 - Including For The Snapdragon X2 The newest Mesa 26.0-devel code as of today has landed initial support for Qualcomm Adreno Gen 8 graphics into the Freedreno Gallium3D driver. The Adreno Gen 8 graphics so far are most notably used by the new Snapdragon X2 Elite laptop SoC with its X2-85 GPU as well as the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 with Adreno 840 graphics...

Mesa 26.0 Lands Initial Support For Adreno Gen 8 - Including For The Snapdragon X2 - Phoronix

The newest Mesa 26.0-devel code as of today has landed initial support for Qualcomm Adreno Gen 8 graphics into the Freedreno Gallium3D driver

Meson 1.10 Build System Adds OS/2 Support, Experimental C++ "import std" Meson 1.10 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular cross-platform build system...

Meson 1.10 Build System Adds OS/2 Support, Experimental C++ "import std" - Phoronix

Meson 1.10 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular cross-platform build system.

Firefox 146 Now Available With Native Fractional Scaling On Wayland The Mozilla Firefox 146.0 release binaries are now available with a very exciting improvement for Linux users relying on Wayland...

Firefox 146 Now Available With Native Fractional Scaling On Wayland - Phoronix

The Mozilla Firefox 146.0 release binaries are now available with a very exciting improvement for Linux users relying on Wayland.

Linux I3C Gains "HDR" Support For Faster Data Transfers I2C in Linux 6.19 brought support for Rust-written I2C drivers. The newer I3C "Improved Inter-Integrated Circuit" interface changes have now been merged and the big feature there is HDR support. Not to be confused with the more common High Dynamic Range acronym usage for HDR, HDR in the I3C context is for the "High Data Rate" mode for facilitating faster data transfers...

Linux I3C Gains "HDR" Support For Faster Data Transfers - Phoronix

I2C in Linux 6.19 brought support for Rust-written I2C drivers

Mesa 26.0 Bringing Support For 64K x 64K Textures With AMD RDNA4 GPUs The latest improvement to the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver by prominent AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák is enabling support for up to 64K x 64K textures with RDNA4 GPUs...

Mesa 26.0 Bringing Support For 64K x 64K Textures With AMD RDNA4 GPUs - Phoronix

The latest improvement to the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver by prominent AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák is enabling support for up to 64K x 64K textu...

Flowblade Video Editor May Go Wayland-Only As Part Of GTK4 Port Flowblade 2.24 released today as the newest version of this open-source, non-linear video editing application. Flowblade 2.24 brings a number of refinements while also interesting is their commentary concerning the future with Wayland and GTK4 porting...

Flowblade Video Editor May Go Wayland-Only As Part Of GTK4 Port - Phoronix

Flowblade 2.24 released today as the newest version of this open-source, non-linear video editing application