Linux CoC Announces Decision Following Recent Bcachefs Drama Following the recent messaging from Bcachefs lead developer Kent Oversteet that Bcachefs changes for Linux 6.13 were rejected on the basis of his Code of Conduct, the Linux CoC committee has now formally announced their decision...

Linux CoC Announces Decision Following Recent Bcachefs Drama - Phoronix

Following the recent messaging from Bcachefs lead developer Kent Oversteet that Bcachefs changes for Linux 6.13 were rejected on the basis of his C...

Nice File Performance Optimizations Coming With Linux 6.13 In addition to the pull requests managed by Microsoft engineer Christian Brauner for VFS untorn writes for atomic writes with XFS and EXT4, Tmpfs case insensitive file/folder support, new Rust file abstractions, and the renewed multi-grain timestamps work, another interesting Linux 6.13 pull submitted by Brauner revolves around VFS file enhancements...

Nice File Performance Optimizations Coming With Linux 6.13 - Phoronix

In addition to the pull requests managed by Microsoft engineer Christian Brauner for VFS untorn writes for atomic writes with XFS and EXT4, Tmpfs c...

ReiserFS Has Been Deleted From The Linux Kernel Linus Torvalds just merged the change to the Linux 6.13 kernel that goes ahead and deletes the ReiserFS file-system from the source tree. Removing ReiserFS from the Linux tree lightens the kernel by 32.8k lines of code...

ReiserFS Has Been Deleted From The Linux Kernel - Phoronix

Linus Torvalds just merged the change to the Linux 6.13 kernel that goes ahead and deletes the ReiserFS file-system from the source tree

Arch Linux Working To Affirm Its Package Sources Under A BSD Zero Clause License Arch Linux package sources with its PKGBUILD files and similar have lacked carrying a clear license. Arch Linux developers have been working to come together to allow all Arch Linux package sources to be licensed under a BSD zero-clause "BSD0" license...

Arch Linux Working To Affirm Its Package Sources Under A BSD Zero Clause License - Phoronix

Arch Linux package sources with its PKGBUILD files and similar have lacked carrying a clear license

Ubuntu Praises 5~7% PGO Compiler Optimization Performance Benefits Over the past year we have seen Canonical engineers focus more on optimizing the performance potential of Ubuntu Linux. With Ubuntu 25.04 they are now using the -O3 compiler optimization level by default and there has been other efforts like better performance tooling on Ubuntu and frame pointers by default. Another area they have been exploring is making use of Profi…

Ubuntu Praises 5~7% PGO Compiler Optimization Performance Benefits - Phoronix

Over the past year we have seen Canonical engineers focus more on optimizing the performance potential of Ubuntu Linux

GCC 15 Compiler Development Shifts From Features To Bug Fixing GCC 15 feature development is now officially over with entering stage three development to focus on fixing compiler bugs...

GCC 15 Compiler Development Shifts From Features To Bug Fixing - Phoronix

GCC 15 feature development is now officially over with entering stage three development to focus on fixing compiler bugs.

TUXEDO Computers Relicenses Some Of Their Drivers To GPLv2 Following the proposed patches this week to adjust the Linux kernel's module loader to treat the TUXEDO Computers drivers as proprietary due to being GPLv3 licensed rather than GPLv2 to jive with the rest of the upstream kernel code, some of the TUXEDO drivers have now been re-licensed...

TUXEDO Computers Relicenses Some Of Their Drivers To GPLv2 - Phoronix

Following the proposed patches this week to adjust the Linux kernel's module loader to treat the TUXEDO Computers drivers as proprietary due t...

Rustls 0.23.17 Brings More Performance Improvements Rustls 0.23.17 is out today as the newest version of this modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language and a great alternative to the likes of OpenSSL...

Rustls 0.23.17 Brings More Performance Improvements - Phoronix

Rustls 0.23.17 is out today as the newest version of this modern TLS library written in the Rust programming language and a great alternative to th...

GCC 15 Moves C Default Language Version To C23 The GCC 15 compiler on Friday switched its default C language version from the GNU dialect of C17 to the current C23 standard...

GCC 15 Moves C Default Language Version To C23 - Phoronix

The GCC 15 compiler on Friday switched its default C language version from the GNU dialect of C17 to the current C23 standard.

KDE Developers Spent The Week Fixing Bugs & Polishing While Plasma 6.3 feature development is continuing, KDE developers this week spent more time fixing bugs and polishing up existing code for ensuring a solid foundation to this open-source desktop...

KDE Developers Spent The Week Fixing Bugs & Polishing - Phoronix

While Plasma 6.3 feature development is continuing, KDE developers this week spent more time fixing bugs and polishing up existing code for ensurin...