Mold 2.32 Released With Increased LLVM LLD Compatibility, Faster Identical Code Folding

Mold 2.32 is out as the newest feature release for this high speed code linker that rivals LLVM LLD and GNU Gold...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mold-2.32-Released

Intel In-Tree Linux Network Drivers Being Adapted To Support Firmware Updates

Intel's IGB and IXGBE network drivers within the mainline Linux kernel are being adapted to support firmware updates for the underlying driver. To date such functionality was limited to Intel's out-of-tree versions of these drivers for their higher-end network hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-IGB-IXGBE-Firmware-Update

Arch Linux Powered CachyOS Now Defaults To Btrfs Rather Than XFS

Arch Linux derivative CachyOS that is optimized for a nice desktop experience and shipping a nice set of performance optimizations/tuning by default is out with its June 2024 refresh...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-Btrfs-Default

The Two Year Journey Funded By Arm/Qualcomm For Improving ARM Linux Laptop Support

Kernel developer and consultant Johan Hovold spent the last two years working on improving ARM Linux laptop support with a particular focus on the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s powered Qualcomm SoC. Arm funded this Linaro effort and as a result the ThinkPad X13s enjoys pleasant upstream kernel support now. This Arm Linux laptop project has now concluded but se…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Two-Years-Improving-ARM-Laptops

KDE Receives New Human Interface Guidelines For 2024

Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham has been working with various KDE designers and developers to establish a new set of Human Interface Guidelines (HIG)...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-New-HIG-2024

GNOME Papers Document Viewer Making Progress As GTK4-Based Evince Fork

GNOME's longtime document viewer, Evince, was recently forked as GNOME Papers and saw its first release a few weeks back. This new GNOME document viewer has been ported from GTK3 to GTK4 and also brings an improved user interface and other refinements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Papers-GTK4-Evince-Fork