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FOSS Weekly #26.35: Performance Boost in Kernel 7.3, Omarchy Rising, Kernel, Root Demystifed, and More
Linux 7.3's merge window is still open, but what's already confirmed looks like the foundation for one of the more performance-heavy releases in a while. Btrfs direct I/O is pushing close to 95% of theoretical throughput, EXT4 is hitting 2.19 million IOPS on fast NVMe, and a KSM memory bug that caused 700ms freezes is fixed down to under 2ms.
Canonical is co-funding a three-year PhD at the University of Bristol to build a system that can translate large C codebases into Rust automatically. The test cases are AppArmor and snap-confine, both already running in production on Ubuntu, picked specifically because they're complex.
While not FOSS, TeamSpeak has been consistent in supporting Linux as a platform. It is now getting the ability to make direct calls between users without requiring a server.
Proton Mail's new Categories feature is live and works similar to how Gmail tabs do, sorting incoming mail into Primary, Social, Promotions, Newsletters, and two optional categories. The difference is that Proton sorts by metadata only since it can't read your email contents.
A one-line kernel bug in the Intel Xe driver was causing GDM to restart endlessly on Battlemage G21 cards. Tracking it down took Linus Torvalds 18 kernel boots and 24 debug patches.
There seems to be an official Flatpak package in early development for the Chromium browser.
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You might have already heard about Omarchy's recent cash infusion; here's a quick run-down: