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      New ASUS, Dell & OneXPlayer Hardware Support In Linux 7.0-rc3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March 2026

    A pull request sent out today and already merged to Linux Git ahead of Sunday's Linux 7.0-rc3 has some new hardware driver support additions for the likes of ASUS, HP, Dell, and OneXPlayer...
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      ZimaBoard 2: An Interesting Intel-Powered Linux Home Mini Server

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March 2026

    For those looking for a low-power, well-built small office / home office Linux server with interesting connectivity options, the ZimaBoard 2 is an interesting option that has been available for some months now and powered by the Intel N150 processor. Besides the interesting single board hardware and well built aluminum chassis, the offering is rounded out by being preloaded with ZimaOS as a Linux-based "personal cloud OS" to easily get hosting for your own SOHO server needs.
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      Linux 7.0 Slab Fix On The Way For A "Severe Performance Regression"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March 2026

    Sent out today was this week's batch of Slab allocator fixes for the Linux 7.0 development kernel. Making this pull notable is fixing a "severe performance regression" with a ~64% performance drop having been noted in late February...
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      AMD CPPC Performance Priority Being Prepared For Linux - New Zen 6 Feature

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March 2026

    Patches were posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list for enabling a new feature called AMD CPPC Performance Priority as a new hardware feature being found with "future AMD processors".... Which given the timing of these patches, almost certainly means the upcoming Zen 6 processors...
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      Intel Xeon Features To Be Supported By Ubuntu 26.04 LTS - Some Lacking User-Space Packages

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March 2026

    Canonical engineer Serkan Uygungelen published a post outlining some of the Intel Xeon CPU features to be supported by the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release, some Xeon features already supported by the existing Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and some features only partially supported for still not having packaged user-space libraries/support within the Ubuntu archive...
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      Oracle Updates Free Solaris CBE For Open-Source Developers / Non-Production Uses

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March 2026

    Four years ago Oracle announced Solaris CBE as the "Common Build Environment" version of Solaris 11.4. Oracle Solaris CBE is made available as free for open-source developers and other non-production use. Oracle this week released a new version of Solaris CBE for those wanting this free* version of Solaris...
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      NetBSD 11.0-RC2 Released For Testing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March 2026

    The big NetBSD 11.0 release continues on approach with NetBSD 11.0-RC2 having been released as the latest test candidate...
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      Haiku OS Pulls In WiFi Driver Updates From OpenBSD, Other Improvements In February

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March 2026

    The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project had an eventful February with a number of driver improvements and a variety of other enhancements...
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      Vulkan 1.4.345 Released With New ARM Shader Instrumentation Extension

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 March 2026

    Vulkan 1.4.345 released overnight as the latest routine spec update to this graphics and compute API. There is one new extension besides a handful of different clarifications and corrections to various elements of the spec...