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      HP OMEN/Victus Gaming Laptops Gaining Fan Control Support Under Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 January 2026

    With the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle, the HP-WMI driver is slated to add manual fan control support for HP Victus S-Series gaming laptops as well as for some HP OMEN gaming laptops too...
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      Linux's Intel-Speed-Select Tool Will Allow Non-Root Use With Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 January 2026

    The intel-speed-select tool that lives within the Linux kernel source tree for allowing some control over Intel Speed Select Technology (SST) and managing of clock frequencies / performance behavior will finally allow limited non-root usage...
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      ChaosBSD Is A New BSD For "Broken Drivers, Half-Working Hardware, Vendor Trash" Test Bed

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 January 2026

    A new BSD on the block is ChaosBSD that intends to serve as a testing distribution for unfinished and broken drivers not suitable for upstreaming to FreeBSD proper...
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      Linux 6.19-rc6 Bringing Sound Fixes For ROG Xbox Ally X & Various Laptops

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 January 2026

    With the Linux 6.19-rc6 kernel release due out later today there will be a number of sound fixes/workarounds to note from the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X gaming handheld to several newer laptops seeing fixes for their audio support...
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      Synex Server: A New Debian Based Linux Distro With Native ZFS Installation Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 January 2026

    Synex is a Linux distribution that's been around for some months as a Debian-based, minimalistic Linux distribution out of Argentina focused on the needs of small and medium businesses. Making it a bit more intriguing for some now is that with their new release based on Debian 13 is a server edition and they have added native OpenZFS file-system support for new installations...
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      Important AMDGPU & AMDKFD Driver Improvements Readied For Linux 6.20~7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 January 2026

    On Friday AMD sent out another set of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver patches for queuing in DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle kicking off in February...
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      FreeBSD 15.1 Aims To Have KDE Desktop Installer Option

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 January 2026

    FreeBSD 15.0 had been aiming to offer a KDE desktop installation option as part of the FreeBSD OS installer. This initiative as part of the FreeBSD laptop support enhancements project didn't pan out in time for FreeBSD 15.0 but now they are working on getting the installer option ready for FreeBSD 15.1. Adding a NVIDIA GPU driver option to the FreeBSD installer was also recently carried out...
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      CVE-2026-0915: GNU C Library Fixes A Security Issue Present Since 1996

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 January 2026

    CVE-2026-0915 was published on Friday as a security issue with the GNU C Library "glibc" for code introduced 30 years ago. The latest Glibc Git code is now patched for this issue introduced in 1996...
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      KDE Begins Landing Features For Plasma 6.7, Some Last Minute Plasma 6.6 Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 January 2026

    KDE developers have been quite busy this week in preparing for the upcoming Plasma 6.6 release in February while also beginning to land features for what will be the Plasma 6.7 desktop...