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      Ubuntu 25.10's Rust Coreutils Transition Has Uncovered Performance Shortcomings

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 12:00

    Ubuntu 25.10's transition to using Rust Coreutils in place of GNU Coreutils has uncovered a few performance issues so far with the Rust version being slower than the C-based GNU Coreutils. Fortunately there still are a few weeks to go until Ubuntu 25.10 releases as stable and upstream developers are working to address these performance gaps...
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      ASRock AI Quickset WSL Aims To Make It Easier Running ROCm + AI Linux Apps On Windows

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 10:20

    Back in late 2023 ASRock announced AI QuickSet to make it easier to get up and running with AI workloads on their hardware under Windows or Linux. Today they announced their second incarnation of that as "AI QuickSet WSL" as making it quicker and easier to setup AMD ROCm under Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) and streamlining the deployment of various AI Linux software packages under WSL...
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      AMD Continues Enhancing AMDGPU/AMDKFD Drivers For Checkpoint/Restore

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 09:56

    CRIU is for Checkpoint/Restore in Userspace to be able to freeze a running container or app, preserve its state to disk, and later restore said running workload. A few years ago we saw AMD working on being able to checkpoint/restore running ROCm workloads. As seemingly the first work in a while on the matter by the AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel drivers, there are some new CRIU elements coming for Linux 6.18...
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      Linux 6.18 To Allow Rust And C Code To Use The Same Memory Model

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 09:40

    The latest tranche of Rust code ready to go for the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel is now ready to go and has been queued into a TIP branch ahead of the merge window...
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      "Rustmaker" Merged For LibreOffice 26.2 Development As Latest Rust Integration

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 07:00

    For fans of open-source projects embracing the Rust programming language, merged for the LibreOffice 26.2 development code for this open-source office suite is "Rustmaker" as a Rust code maker for UNO integration with this open-source office suite...
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      FreeBSD 15.0 Alpha 2 Released With Builds Now Being Properly Reproducible

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 04:00

    The second alpha release of the upcoming FreeBSD 15 is now available for testing ahead of its planned official release in December...
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      Linux 6.17-rc6 Released With VMSCAPE Mitigation, FLYDIGI APEX 5 Support & Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 days ago - 23:15

    The newest weekly test release of Linux 6.17 is now available as we work toward the stable kernel release around the end of September...
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      Intel Loses One Of Its USB4 / Thunderbolt Linux Driver Maintainers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 days ago - 10:43

    It's unfortunate the number of significant Linux engineering losses at Intel this year. Beyond the staffing reductions throughout the company, seeing the loss of Linux engineering talent and many of their open-source contributors outside of kernel space too has been especially hard hitting to see. Intel for years has been very well regarded for their prolific open-source contributions and typically leading early hardware enablement within the Linux kernel, compiler toolchains, and related components. There's another hit to the Intel Linux team with one of their USB4/Thunderbolt maintainers departing the company...
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      Select Qualcomm X Elite Laptops Seeing IRIS Video Acceleration On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 days ago - 10:25

    Adding to the list of feature caveats around the different Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptops and the varying Linux state is video acceleration support. But patches were posted this week by a Linaro engineer enabling hardware accelerated video playback for two X Elite laptop models...