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      Linux 7.0 Readying Improvement For Rust + LTO Kernel Builds

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 January 2026

    Alice Ryhl of Google has been working on an improvement to the Linux kernel code for inlining C helpers into Rust when making use of a Link-Time Optimized (LTO) kernel build. At least some of the patches are queued up for merging in the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 cycle for helping those enabling the Rust kernel support and also making use of the LLVM/Clang compiler's LTO capabilities for greater performance...
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      ollama 0.14 Can Make Use Of Bash For Letting AI/LLMs Run Commands On Your System

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 January 2026

    The ollama 0.14-rc2 release is available today and it introduces new functionality with ollama run --experimental for in this experimental mode to run an agent loop so that LLMs can use tools like bash and web searching on your system. It's opt-in for letting ollama/LLMs make use of bash on your local system and there are at least some safeguards in place...
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      KDE Plasma 6.6 Adds oo7 Secret Service Provider Support, Save As New Global Theme

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 January 2026

    With new volunteers stepping up for This Week in Plasma, there is a new issue out this week to highlight more development activities going into the upcoming KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop release...
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      AI Assistant App For GNOME Adds MCP Server Support To Integrate With Much More Software

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 January 2026

    Hitting the "1.0" milestone last summer was the GNOME AI virtual assistant app called Newelle. This third-party GNOME app has continued evolving as an AI-focused assistant on the GNOME desktop and has now rolled out MCP server support to integrate with "thousands" of other apps...
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      TrueNAS WebShare: ZFS-Backed, Enterprise-Grade File Sharing From The Web Browser

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 January 2026

    For situations where Samba (SMB) or NFS usage aren't appropriate or desiring the convenience of accessing files from a web browser on any device, TrueNAS is introducing TrueNAS WebShare as an easy-to-use solution for enterprise-grade file sharing in the web browser...
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      Wine 11.0-rc5 Brings 32 Bug Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 January 2026

    With no Wine 11.0 release candidate last Friday due to the New Year festivities, Wine 11.0-rc5 is out today and it comes packing 32 bug fixes for the past two weeks...
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      AMD Enabling New GFX12.1 & More RDNA 3.5 Hardware Blocks With Linux 6.20~7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 January 2026

    AMD today sent out their latest pull request to DRM-Next of new AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver changes they are looking to get into the next kernel cycle, which will either be known as Linux 6.20 or more than likely be called Linux 7.0. Notable with this week's pull request is enabling a lot of new GPU hardware IP blocks, including GC/GFX 12.1 as a new addition past the current GFX12.0 / RDNA4...
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      Mesa 26.0 RADV Lands Dedicated Transfer-Only Queue Using SDMA

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 January 2026

    There is another open-source Radeon Vulkan driver (RADV) improvement to look forward to in the upcoming Mesa 26.0 release that was worked on by one of Valve's Linux graphics driver developers...
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      QEMU 11.0 Could Finish Removing 32-bit Host CPU Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 January 2026

    The QEMU emulator already deprecated 32-bit host CPU support while for the QEMU 11.0 release this year they could eliminate the 32-bit host support for good...