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[Space Heater]

Where did you hear that? From Netflix's presentations they definitely cared about the license not being GPL [1] [2] [3].

[1] https://pap...

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Since they have existing defines for with DDR3 and DDR4 memory in the amdgpu driver, you believe that this is somehow a confirmation of Van Gogh using...

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I'd suggest you look again....

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Before some people freak out:


From the Fedora wiki page linked in the article....

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Neither has a bright future.

Oracle has clearly put Solaris into maintenance mode after firing most of their Solaris staff, canceling the...

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I'm very happy to see that AMD is increasing their Linux support, hopefully it's a sign of more to come.

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Probably because the last release was called "ZFS on Linux" 0.8.4, and there already was an OpenZFS project (which was just a mirror of illumos),...

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Great to hear that Arm is starting to support Panfrost but I wonder if Nvidia will put a stop to this in short order (and perhaps put a stop to Mali hardware...

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I think this is the big takeaway, Gnome Shell 4 is unlikely to happen....

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They did and it seems that the set of changes improves performance in some cases, and for this workload it caused a performance regression....

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The ClutterFrameClock is clearly a Gnome-specific construct that they have now split up. While the limitation of having a single ClutterFrameClock is...

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You clearly aren't great at reading -- as you keep ignoring what I write -- so I'll try to keep this short.

The reality is that I originally...

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I have multiple monitors with different refresh rates, I'm aware X11 doesn't handle it perfectly, but they clearly are running at different rates. Pretending...

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This is describing a limitation with respect to gnome on X11, you can have multiple monitors on X11 with different refresh rates....

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Looks like this performance improvement won't make it for 3.38 then.

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The only real way to find out is for us to test it and report bugs, then it all comes down to whether or not the pipewire devs respond appropriately....

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It would be great to see this land along with Matthew Wilcox's work to support large pages in the page cache.

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Supporting large pages isn't the same as defaulting to large pages.

Source.

Note the "standard page size" is still...

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Show me an OS that *defaults* to 2MB or 1GB pages (Windows, macOS, FreeBSD, Solaris, and ESXi default to 4KB on x86). Defaulting to 2MB pages would have...