Ubuntu's Miriway Maturing As A Mir-Based Wayland Compositor For Other Desktops

In addition to Canonical continuing to invest in developing Mir as a platform now built atop Wayland, over the past year Canonical developers have been quietly working on Miriway as a Mir-based Wayland compositor and it's becoming iteratively more useful...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Mir-Miriway-2023

OpenZFS Lands Sync Parallelism To Drive Big Gains For Write Performance Scalability

A very enticing performance optimization was merged yesterday into the OpenZFS codebase to enhance the write performance scalability...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-Sync-Parallelism

Bcachefs Lands Big Scalability Improvement, Disables Debug Option By Default

Following last week's merging of the Bcachefs file-system into Linux 6.7, a secondary set of updates were merged today for adding a few new features as well as some fixes for this newly-merged Linux file-system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Bcachefs-Updated-Linux-6.7

GIMP 2.10.36 Released As GIMP 3.0 Might Finally Be Close

GIMP 2.10.36 was released on Tuesday for this long-running stable series of this open-source Adobe Photoshop alternative while GIMP 3.0 has been very slow to materialize...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-2.10.36-Released

New Set Of 86 Patches Overhaul The Linux Kernel's Preemption Model

Ankur Arora of Oracle on Tuesday sent out a set of 86 patches for making the Linux kernel preemptible. This is based on earlier work by prominent Linux kernel engineer Thomas Gleixner...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Overhaul-Linux-Preemptible-RFC