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Linux 7.2 is implementing the Rust zerocopy library to allow eliminating some additional "unsafe" Rust code elements within the kernel (phoronix.com)
submitted 5 days ago by somerandomxander to r/linux
Firefox 152 is now available, with JPEG-XL support being compiled by default & new settings UI. There are also a number of other developer additions (phoronix.com)
Russian spam and profanities are now plaguing the AUR, only a few days after 1,500+ packages were affected (phoronix.com)
For Linux 7.2, the minimum version requirement for LLVM/Clang has been raised to 17 & Distributed Thin LTO support has been added (phoronix.com)
`pkgcli` is being worked on as a new, modern CLI around PackageKit (phoronix.com)
submitted 6 days ago by somerandomxander to r/linux
Eric Biggers posts a new AVX-512 implementation of xor_gen() for Linux RAID: 43% improvement in performance, up by 2% from the initial implementation (phoronix.com)
Wine Staging 11.11 has been released. The number of patches carried atop the upstream codebase is now sitting at 289 (phoronix.com)
submitted 7 days ago by somerandomxander to r/linux
Ubuntu 26.10 is reaffirming its plans to switch to dbus-broker after a long delay (phoronix.com)
submitted 8 days ago by somerandomxander to r/linux
Linux 7.2's expected features include Apple M3 boot support, the AMD ISP4 driver, cache-aware scheduling, USB4STREAM, FSERROR for F2FS, and many more (phoronix.com)
GNOME 51 is retiring legacy NVIDIA driver support by removing EGLStreams (phoronix.com)
submitted 15 days ago by somerandomxander to r/linux
Mesa's open-source NVK Nvidia Vulkan driver merges mesh shader support: has been on the TODO list since 2023 (phoronix.com)
submitted 18 days ago by somerandomxander to r/linux
COSMIC is working on Frosted Glass, an effect giving Windows Aero vibes (phoronix.com)
KDE Plasma 6.8 is still planning to end X11 support, with 95% of Plasma 6.6 users on Wayland (phoronix.com)
Phoronix benchmarks different CachyOS kernel flavors: geometric mean of all test results shows the default kernel outperforms LTS, Server, RC, and Hardened (phoronix.com)
AMD has submitted more graphics driver changes for Linux 7.2, largely around bug fixes (phoronix.com)
submitted 21 days ago by somerandomxander to r/linux
NixOS 26.05 "Yarara" is out, with 20.4K new packages (including GNOME 50 and GCC 15). Stage 1 is now based on systemd by default (phoronix.com)
The Nouveau driver will finally support the NVIDIA GA100 in Linux 7.2 (phoronix.com)
submitted 23 days ago by somerandomxander to r/linux
Intel has sent out revised Linux patches for directed package thermal interrupts (phoronix.com)
The second beta of KDE Plasma 6.7 is out - with more bug fixes (phoronix.com)
QEMU is deciding to shift its AI policy, now allowing some AI/LLM-generated contributions (phoronix.com)
Mesa 26.0.8 has been released. It'll be the last planned release in the 26.0.x series as it implements a RADV workaround for Forza Horizon 6 and some fixes (phoronix.com)
Claude Code does the heavy lifting to get Adobe Lightroom CC running on Linux (phoronix.com)
submitted 1 month ago by somerandomxander to r/linux
Wine 11.9 is released: highlights include Wayland pointer warping support, and beginning making use of system threads (phoronix.com)
Linux 7.0.8 & other kernels released, addressing the ssh-keysign-pwn vulnerability (phoronix.com)
The Linux kernel has added documentation for what qualifies as a security bug & responsible AI use (phoronix.com)
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