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      RISC-V XIP Linux Feature Being Removed After It Keeps Breaking For Months At A Time

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 April 2026

    Introduced in Linux 5.13 back in 2021 was eXecute In Place "XIP" support for RISC-V that allows for the kernel image to be executed from ROM. The intent is on allowing the kernel to run from non-volatile storage like NOR flash that is directly addressable by the CPU and to reduce RAM usage. But after RISC-V XIP support is broken for months at a time, the feature is now set to be retired from the mainline kernel...
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      Mesa Granted Permanent Updates Exception For Fedora Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 April 2026

    It doesn't change too much in practice with how Mesa updates typically have been handled under Fedora Linux, but now it's officially documented: Mesa graphics drivers have a permanent updates exception so new Mesa versions can be shipped as updates in Fedora stable releases...
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      Lemonade 10.1 Released For Latest Improvements For Local LLMs On AMD GPUs & NPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 April 2026

    Following last month's Lemonade SDK 10.0 release that finally makes AMD Ryzen AI NPUs under Linux useful for running large language models (LLMs) where as before the Linux build could only target GPUs, released on Monday was Lemonade 10.1 with more enhancements to this local LLM solution...
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      Mesa Developers Decide On Two Gen AI Policies For Development Moving Forward

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 April 2026

    Building on prior Mesa contributor guidelines and discussions among upstream Mesa developers, there are two generative AI "GenAI" policies that have now been decided upon for Mesa development moving forward...
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      Rust Coreutils 0.8 Brings Significant Performance Gains

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 April 2026

    Rust Coreutils 0.8 was released today as the newest major release to this alternative to GNU Coreutils...
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      FreeBSD Aims To Better Track Laptop Hardware That Works Or Doesn't For Their OS

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 April 2026

    Over the past year the FreeBSD project has been making much progress on making it more viable to run this BSD operating system on laptop hardware. They have worked on better graphics driver support, improved power management / suspend, making sure audio is working, and even rolling out a KDE desktop option from the FreeBSD OS installer to ease the deployment on desktops. While that engineering work continues, they are also working now to make it easier to summarize laptop hardware working or not on FreeBSD...
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      A Small But Useful Debugging Addition For AMD Zen Systems With Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 April 2026

    A small but convenient feature is coming with the Linux 7.1 that will be useful in debugging AMD Zen system problems and information reporting/transparency purposes...
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      NetBSD 11.0 Nears Release With RC3 Released For Testing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 April 2026

    For the better part of the past year NetBSD developers have been preparing for the NetBSD 11.0 release and in February NetBSD 11.0-RC1 released followed by 11.0-RC2 and now a third release candidate was announced today...
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      Wine Staging 11.6 Ships Big Patch Series For Working On DirectComposition

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 April 2026

    Following Friday's release of Wine 11.6 with reviving the Android driver and improving game mod support as part of DLL loader updates, Wine-Staging 11.6 is out today with extra patches atop...