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Synex Server: A New Debian Based Linux Distro With Native ZFS Installation Support:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Synex-Debian-With-ZFS

Fedora Games Lab Approved To Switch To KDE Plasma, Become A Better Linux Gaming Showcase:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Games-Lab-Overhaul-2026

Goverlay for managing tools like MangoHud gets a major new release and it's finally on Flathub:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/goverlay-for-managing-tools-like-mangohud-gets-a-major-new-release-and-its-finally-on-flathub/

Proton Experimental brings updates for MonoGame, Rockstar Launcher and more:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/proton-experimental-brings-updates-for-monogame-rockstar-launcher-and-more/

Upcoming exFAT Linux Driver Patch Can Boost Sequential Read Performance By ~10%:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/exFAT-Faster-Seq-Reads-10p

Patches Positioned Ahead Of Linux 7.0 Cycle For Easy Custom Boot Logo In Place Of Tux:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-7.0-Custom-Boot-Logo

libvirt 12.0 Released - Bhyve ARM64 Support & Other Improvements For The BSD Hypervisor:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/libvirt-12.0

GRUB 2.14 Bootloader Released With EROFS Support, Shim Loader Protocol:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GRUB-2.14-Released

D7VK version 1.2 brings more Direct3D 6 improvements and a little Direct3D 5 too:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/d7vk-version-1-2-brings-more-direct3d-6-improvements-and-a-little-direct3d-5-too/

Wine 11.0 Brings Ntsync Support, Complete WoW64 + Other Changes:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/wine-11-0-released

Hangover 11.0 Released: Wine + FEX/Box64 Pairing For Windows x86 Apps On ARM64 Linux:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hangover-11.0-Released

Linux 6.19-rc5 Brings Fix For Newer NVIDIA GPUs, Logitech HID++ For Anywhere 3S & Fixes:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.19-rc5-Released

First .NET 10 Servicing Update Now Available in Ubuntu 24.04 LTS:
https://www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2026/01/dotnet-10-0-1-update-ubuntu-24-04-lts

Bcachefs Ships Latest User-Space Utilities With bcachefs-tools 1.35:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/bcachefs-tools-1.35

Even more AMD ray tracing performance improvements heading to Mesa on Linux:
https://www.gamingonlinux.com/2026/01/even-more-amd-ray-tracing-performance-improvements-heading-to-mesa-on-linux/

Auto-CPUFreq 3.0 Released To Help You Extend Laptop Battery Life On Linux:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Auto-CPUFreq-3.0

LLMinus Working On AI/LLM-Powered Merge Conflict Resolution For The Linux Kernel:
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LLMinus-RFC-v2

(FOSS news in comments)

#WeeklyNews #News #Linux #LinuxNews #Synex #FedoraGamesLab #Goverlay #Proton #exFAT #LinuxKernel #Libvirt #GRUB #D7VK #Wine #Hangover #Bcachefs #Mesa #AMD #AutoCPUFreq #Auto_CPUFREQ #FosseryTech

On the other hand #exfat may take longer - you have big hardware that isn't going to get updates and doesn't have exfat support because it was built before 2019 and won't be retired/upgraded until it breaks and they don't have spare ones in the warehouse. Might take decades realistically. Gatekeeping exfat was probably a top 10 #Microsoft blunder for tech in the last 10 years.

Which local file systems does macOS 26 support?

https://web.brid.gy/r/https://eclecticlight.co/2025/11/18/which-local-file-systems-does-macos-26-support/

<p>Support in macOS for file systems has continued to change over the last couple of years. This article summarises support available for local file systems, in attached rather than network or cloud storage, in macOS 26.1 Tahoe.</p>
<h4>APFS</h4>
<p>This is the default file system for Macs and Apple’s devices, although macOS has standardised on its case-insensitive variant for general use, while iOS and other OSes use case-sensitive. The one common exception is with Time Machine backup storage, which requires case-sensitivity. The only situation in which HFS+ is still expected is for <a href="https://support.apple.com/101578" target="_blank">bootable macOS installers</a>.</p>
<p>The most significant feature of HFS+ that is missing in APFS is directory hard links, a key feature of Time Machine backups made to HFS+ storage.</p>
<p>Multiple APFS volumes can share the same APFS partition (container), in contrast to other file systems supported by macOS, in which each partition is also a volume.</p>
<p>As universal as APFS is on modern Macs, it’s very rarely available on other computer systems, and the only support for other platforms is from Paragon <a href="https://www.paragon-software.com/home/apfs-windows/" target="_blank">for Windows</a> or <a href="https://www.paragon-software.com/home/apfs-linux/" target="_blank">for Linux</a>.</p>
<h4>HFS+</h4>
<p>The Macintosh Extended file system HFS+ is the predecessor to APFS and is still fully supported in macOS. It comes

Estaba algo preocupado cuando lei por ahi que la nueva actualización del #DSM a 7.3 no soportaría #exFAT en mis #Synology.

La aclaración es simple: DSM 7.3 ya incluye la licencia, mientras que para versiones anteriores a la version 7, requieren la COMPRA de la licencia para poder acceder a estar unidades.

Mas aqui:

https://kb.synology.com/es-es/DSM/tutorial/Can_I_use_exFAT_external_storage_devices_with_my_Synology_NAS

wieder was gelernt: künftig #exFAT, nicht #vFAT für usbsticks etc verwenden..

En vieläkään oikein tiedä, mitä #tiedostojärjestelmä'ä #Linux'issa pitäisi #irtokiintolevy'illä kuten muistitikuilla käyttää. Yleensä olen käyttänyt #ext4:ää ilman #journaali'a, mutta en ole lainkaan varma, onko se optimaalinen. #exfat tietysti sopisi muuten kuin nyrkki hanuriin, mutta #käyttöoikeudet menisivät vinksin vonksin. #floss #muistitikku #atkjuttuja

@Klimakipppunkt@troet.cafe @CrazyIT@freiburg.social @alexantemachina@mastodon.social

Um Backups auf ein #Samba oder #NFS #Share auszulagern, braucht es gar kein Addon. Das geht otb mit Bordmitteln.

Ich würde gern, nach der Erfahrung, dass die komplette Konfiguration sowie #Datenbank weg waren (komplett leerer Ordner /homeassistant) gerne diese auf ein vernünftiges #Dateisystem wie #ext4 oder #ZFS auslagern.

#exFat ist, basierend auf #Fat32 einfach #FailByDesign und nicht zeitgemäß.

Ich wiederhole mich hier:
Wie man auf die Schnapsidee kommen kann, ein #Linux basiertes System mit einem exFat Dateisystem auszuliefern, ist einfach komplett unverständlich und 🤡🤡🤡

#Homeassistant #HA

@CrazyIT@freiburg.social @alexantemachina@mastodon.social

Ja, in der Tat, aber ca. 48 Std früher.

Liegt dann wohl an dem völlig unverständlichen #exFat als #Dateisystem von #Homeassistant.

Wie kann man nur bei einem #Linux auf so eine Schnapsidee kommen. 🤷‍♂️🤦‍♂️🤡

I wanted to store some #BorgBackup archives on an #exFAT disk so that any operating system (not just #Linux) could easily read it, but Borg needs a journaling #filesystem. 😢

In theory, there isn't any reason why journaling can't be implemented on FAT 🤔 but everybody probably doesn't consider it worth the effort.

#NTFS would work too, except some of the #Linux machines I run Borg on are running Debian Stable, whose old kernel lacks the ntfs3 driver. 🤦‍♂️

EX Fat
It's in the bits

#exfat

Estaba con problemas para encontrar archivos en un disco externo en mi #Macbook, pero la siguiente utilería hizo el truco fácil:

https://apps.tempel.org/FindAnyFile/

La razón es simple, a #MacOS no le gusta indexar discos externos con formato #exFAT

💾 Recovered my external drive using the legendary testdisk utility.

macOS wouldn’t mount it, diskutil was hanging, and Finder showed nothing. Turned out the partition table was marked as “deleted” after an improper eject.

TestDisk helped me reassign it as primary, and boom - data back, no loss.

🧠 Lesson: ExFAT is fragile. Always eject properly.

#macOS #DataRecovery #testdisk #ExFAT #usbdrive #cliwin

macOSでサポートされていないファイルシステムをユーザー空間で拡張できるFSKitを実験的にサポートした「macFUSE v5.0.0」のプレビュー版がリリース。
https://applech2.com/archives/20250505-macfuse-v5-experimental-support-for-fskit.html

#applech2 #macOS_15_Sequoia #exFAT #FAT #FSKit #Mac #macFUSE #macOS #macOS_15_4 #NTFS #Sequoia #開発者

...while researching the usual "which affordable Linux-based, web-UI #NAS to get for a budget?", i found this in #QNAP tech-specs:

"To use #exFat in certain models you must purchase an exFAT driver license from License Center"

https://www.qnap.com/de-de/product/tvs-h1288x/specs/software

#MicrosoftLovesLinux

macOS 15.4 SequoiaではmacOSでサポートされていないファイルシステムを、カーネルレベルアクセスを必要とせずユーザー空間で拡張できる「FSKit」のサポートが開始。
https://applech2.com/archives/20250421-fskit-extend-macos-file-system-in-macos-154-sequoia.html

#applech2 #macOS_15_Sequoia #exFAT #FAT #Mac #macOS #macOS_15_4 #NTFS #Sequoia #開発者

I think the most reliable way to move a large file tree between #linux and #macos with stock systems is to format your external drive as #exfat ; then use the tar command to create an archive on the drive you share. This is quicker even than a gigabit connection of scp or rsync I think. Curious about opinions on this.

Headline: #Microsoft's #exFAT is getting absolutely huge performance boost on #Linux again thanks to #Sony

Source: https://www.neowin.net/news/microsofts-exfat-is-getting-absolutely-huge-performance-boost-on-linux-again-thanks-to-sony/

Linux 6.15’s exFAT file deletion performance boosted

A recent development in the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel has been spotted, because there was a big improvement to the exFAT file system implementation in relation to how it deletes the files when the “discard” mount option is used. This improvement significantly saves time as a test file after the merge has been deleted in 1.6 seconds, compared to more than 4 minutes of the total time taken.

This pull request makes sure that, upon file deletion, it discards a group of contiguous clusters (that is, clusters that are next to each other) in batch instead of discarding them one by one. This was because in prior kernels, such as 6.14, “if the discard mount option is enabled, the file’s clusters are discarded when they are freed. Discarding clusters one by one will significantly reduce performance. Poor performance may cause soft lockup when lots of clusters are freed.”

The change has been introduced in commit a36e0ab. Since then, the pull request has been merged to the kernel and it will be integrated to the first release candidate of Linux 6.15. A simple performance benchmark has been verified with the following commands:

# truncate -s 80G /mnt/file# time rm /mnt/file

In detail, the performance of this filesystem without this commit is poor, totalling about 4 minutes and 46 seconds in real time, with 12 seconds of system time. In contrast to the patched kernel, it totals about 1 second in real time, with 17 milliseconds of system time.

It’s a huge improvement!

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#Computers #exFAT #Filesystem #Kernel #Linux #LinuxKernel #news #performance #speed #Tech #Technology #update

Linux 6.15 brings improved exFAT file system performance for file deletions!

#Linux #Kernel #LinuxKernel #Computers #Filesystem #Files #exFAT #Performance #Boost #TechNews #TechUpdates

https://officialaptivi.wordpress.com/2025/04/01/linux-6-15s-exfat-file-deletion-performance-boosted/

#linux #archlinux #reborneos #pregunta #vfat #exFat

Hoy me ha sucedido algo muy extraño. Al conectar un stick USB y tratar de montarlo, me ha aparecido el mensaje de error 'filesystem type vfat not configured in kernel'

Pero...

$ pacman -Q -i exfatprogs
Version : 1.2.7-1

Me pregunto ¿donde esta el problema?

#exFAT

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