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      Experimental Out-Of-Tree Code Aims To Provide HDMI 2.1 FRL For AMD Linux Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 February 2026

    One of the limitations of the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver has been the lack of its support for HDMI 2.1 and later. AMD has wanted to support HDMI 2.1+ functionality under Linux but it's been legally blocked by the HDMI Forum. But anxious independent users have been working on open-source patches for wiring up HDMI 2.1 into the AMDGPU driver outside of the realm of AMD and the HDMI Forum's blessings...
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      GhostBSD To Use XLibre Server, MATE vs. Gershwin Desktop Decision In Future

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 February 2026

    GhostBSD lead developer Eric Turgeon published an update regarding X.Org Server vs. XLibre vs. Wayland planning for the GhostBSD distribution moving forward as well as some future uncertainties to this desktop-focused, FreeBSD-derived OS...
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      Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids Memory Scaling Performance From 6 To 12 MRDIMMs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 February 2026

    With memory pricing being as wild as it is these days and with MRDIMMs on Xeon 6 Granite Rapids offering much more memory bandwidth than conventional DDR5 RDIMMs, you may be wondering about the performance impact when not populating all twelve memory channels on the Xeon 6900 series processors. In this article are benchmarks to demonstrate the performance difference of MRDIMM-8800 memory across using six, eight, ten, and twelve MRDIMMs with a Xeon 6980P server.
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      Microsoft .NET On Linux Adapted To Use IO_uring Yield Massive Performance Benefits

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 February 2026

    A pull request for the Microsoft .NET Runtime build on Linux to use IO_uring for sockets is showing some massive performance benefits...
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      Nova Lake S Support Added To Intel LPSS Driver In Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 February 2026

    The latest Nova Lake enablement work for the Linux kernel to land is adding support for Nova Lake S platforms to the Intel LPSS driver in the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel...
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      DNF 5.4 Released With Some New Options & AI Contributions Policy

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 February 2026

    DNF 5.4 is out today as the latest release for this next-generation RPM package management solution used by Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and various other RPM-based Linux distributions...
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      KDE Plasma 6.6 Released With Many Excellent Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 February 2026

    KDE Plasma 6.6 is now officially out as the newest feature update to this prominent open-source desktop environment. Plasma 6.6 is self-described by KDE developers as "the best desktop in the known universe (according to us). Plasma 6.6 is all about making your life as easy as possible without sacrificing any of the flexibility."..
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      Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 February 2026

    The Gentoo Linux project last year announced plans to move their code hosting to Codeberg rather than GitHub. Gentoo's desire to move away from GitHub was motivated by Microsoft's Copilot training on GitHub repositories. Those plans are turning into action now with the main Gentoo project up on Codeberg and honoring pull requests...
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      Linux 7.0 CXL Enables AMD Zen 5 Address Translation Feature

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 February 2026

    A long-in-development feature for AMD EPYC Zen 5 server platforms now merged for the Linux 7.0 kernel is ACPI PRMT-based address translation for the Compute Express Link (CXL) subsystem...