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      Apple M3 With Asahi Linux Continues Making Progress, No ETA Yet For Shipping

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 February 2026

    Asahi Linux developers have published a status report following the recent Linux 6.19 kernel release to outline recent progress and upcoming items around Apple Silicon support on Linux. This year will also mark five years that Asahi Linux has been around for bringing Linux to the Apple M-Series hardware...
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      Intel Lands Initial Preparations For DSA 3.0 Accelerators In Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 February 2026

    Last year we began seeing Linux patches preparing the kernel for Intel Data Streaming Accelerator "DSA" 3.0 IP. Finally with the Linux 7.0 kernel those patches in updated form have now been merged...
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      FreeBSD's KDE Desktop Install Option Ready For Testing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 February 2026

    As part of enhancing the FreeBSD experience on laptops and desktops, FreeBSD developers have been working toward adding a convenient desktop install option to their text-based installer for easily deploying the KDE Plasma desktop along with the necessary GPU drivers. After it didn't get wrapped up in time for the FreeBSD 15.0 release, that desktop installer option is now ready for testing...
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      KVM In Linux 7.0 Adds Support For Virtualizing AMD ERAPS

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 February 2026

    All of the KVM virtualization feature changes were recently merged for the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel...
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      GNOME 50 Merges "sdr-native" Color Mode Support For Wide Color Gamut Displays

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 February 2026

    As a late stage change for GNOME 50 ahead of its official debut next month and following last week's GNOME 50 beta is plumbing the Mutter compositor for a new "sdr-native" color mode option...
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      NTFS3 Driver Sees Improvements In Linux 7.0 While "NTFS Remake" Driver Bakes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 February 2026

    The NTFS3 driver maintained by Paragon Software for Microsoft NTFS file-systems today saw a batch of improvements merged for Linux 7.0 This comes as there is also the competing "NTFS Remake" driver that began a few months ago as the "NTFSPLUS" driver. That NTFS Remake driver isn't looking like it will be submitted for the Linux 7.0 merge window so at least for now the NTFS3 driver continues seeing improvements with the latest mainline kernel code...
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      AMD Preparing Linux Kernel For "RMPOPT" To Help Reduce Overhead On SEV-SNP Servers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 February 2026

    AMD sent out a set of Linux kernel patches today for enabling use of a new instruction dubbed RMPOPT. Given the timing of these patches, RMPOPT is presumably a feature coming with next-gen AMD EPYC Zen 6 "Venice" processors...
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      Linux 7.0 Lands New TI RGB LED Driver With "Autonomous Animation Engine" Control

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 February 2026

    The LED subsystem updates for the Linux kernel typically aren't too noteworthy each kernel cycle but with Linux 7.0 is a new TI RGB LED driver that captured my attention in being curious over its "autonomous animation engine" integration...
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      Linux 7.0 Merges "Significant Improvement" For close_range System Call

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 February 2026

    The close_range system call for closing all file descriptors "FDs" in a given range should enjoy a nice speed boost with the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel...