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SUSE's David Sterba sent out the Btrfs updates today for the Linux 6.9 merge window

The Ubuntu 24.04 LTS release next month will roll out initial support in its server installer for being able to handle root file-system setups on NVMe-over-TCP scenarios for remote drives.

Intel this morning released Continuous Profiler as open-source, a software solution developed by Intel Granulate for aiming to help boost CPU performance.

All of the Rust feature patches have already been submitted in a pull request to Linus Torvalds ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.9 merge window.

Now rolling into March, Ubuntu 24.04 LTS 'Noble Numbat' has entered its feature freeze period ahead of its official release in April.

Mesa 24.0 series release manager Eric Engestrom is out with another on-time bi-weekly point release for this set of open-source GPU user-space driver components

The Arch Linux based CachyOS Linux distribution aims to be a 'blazingly fast and customizable Linux distribution' that is aggressive with its performance optimizations.

Valve contractor Mike Blumenkrantz is back at it working on some exciting improvements to Mesa and in particular for the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan implementation.

Building upon the existing AV1 encode support for RDNA3 GPUs within the Mesa RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, AV1 Long-Term Reference 'LTR' support is now enabled within Mesa 24.1.

Daniel Almeida with Collabora has posted a rewritten of the VP9 codec library code within the Linux kernel's Video 4 Linux 2 (V4L2) subsystem