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      LLVM's DTLTO Now More Efficiently Adding Files To The Link For Much Better Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 March 2026

    Last year LLVM began landing their Distributed ThinLTO "DTLTO" support as an enhancement to their ThinLTO approach for link-time optimizations. An improvement merged this week to LLVM addresses a performance bottleneck discovered when adding files to the link...
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      Gedit Aims For More Frequent Releases, Bans AI / LLM Contributions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 March 2026

    Following the release of GNOME 50, Gedit 50 was released on Friday as the newest version of this graphical text editor aligned with the GNOME desktop. Moving forward the Gedit developers are banning AI / large language model (LLM) driven developments and aim to ship more releases faster...
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      Fish 4.6 Shell Brings Support For Recent systemd Environment Variables

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 March 2026

    Fish 4.6 released today as the newest version of this Rust-based interactive shell for Linux and other platforms...
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      KDE Plasma 6.7 Addresses 5 Year Old Request For Easier Microphone Testing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 March 2026

    It's been another busy week in the KDE space as Plasma developers continue working on new feature activity for the big Plasma 6.7 release...
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      DRBD Driver Working To Land ~15 Years Worth Of Changes Into The Linux Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 March 2026

    Developers behind the Distributed Replicated Block Device "DRBD" for mirroring block devices between multiple host systems are working to resync the upstream Linux kernel DRBD support with the out-of-tree DRBD code they have been maintaining for the past ~15 years out-of-sync. It's a big undertaking but they have begun staging patches for review and testing to get this massive set of changes up to par for mainline...
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      Framework Computer Steps Up Their Support For KDE

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 March 2026

    Framework Computer as the company behind the modular Framework laptops and incredible Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" Framework Desktop has stepped up their support for the KDE community...
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      KDE Plasma 6.6 Showing Frequent Performance Advantage Over GNOME 50 With NVIDIA R595 Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 March 2026

    Earlier this week I provided benchmarks looking at KDE Plasma 6.6's performance advantage over GNOME 50 for Linux gaming with AMD Radeon graphics. That raised the question if the same was true when using NVIDIA graphics with their official Linux graphics driver stack. Here are such benchmarks looking at the KDE Plasma 6.6 and GNOME 50 performance on Ubuntu 26.04 beta while using the new NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux driver.
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      Intel Xe Driver Improves Memory Pressure / Out-Of-Memory Behavior For vRAM With Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 March 2026

    Following the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver pull request landing transparent hugepages for device pages as an SVM win, another round of Intel Xe driver updates were sent out this week ahead of next month's Linux 7.1 merge window. This latest pull request lands a new user-space API for helping the Intel Xe driver better cope with situations of video memory pressure / out-of-memory behavior for vRAM...
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      BPF-Based I/O Scheduler For Linux Demonstrated

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 March 2026

    With sched_ext there is support for BPF-based CPU scheduling policies for the Linux kernel while now a new initiative is working on BPF-based I/O schedulers...