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      Linux Mint Ready With Its Wayland-Compatible Cinnamon Screensaver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 March 2026

    Linux Mint developers recently outlined their work on developing a new Wayland-compatible screensaver for use with their Cinnamon desktop environment. Linux Mint developers announced today that their new screensaver solution is ready for use...
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      systemd 260-rc2 Released With More Changes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 March 2026

    Last week marked the release of systemd 260-rc1 with a new "mstack" feature, a new "FANCY_NAME" field for os-release, dropping System V service script support, and other changes. Out today is systemd 260-rc2 release with more changes in further working its way toward a stable release for empowering 2026 Linux distributions...
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      Linux Preps IBPB-On-Entry Feature For AMD SEV-SNP Guest VMs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 March 2026

    Heading toward the Linux 7.0 kernel and marked for back-porting to current stable Linux kernel versions is employing a new SEV-SNP security feature found on AMD Zen 5 processors for enhancing security of guest virtual machines...
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      AMD Engineer Leverages AI To Help Make A Pure-Python AMD GPU User-Space Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 March 2026

    AMD's VP of AI Software, Anush Elangovan, has used Claude Code to help craft a pure-Python AMD GPU user-space driver. This Python user-space driver is currently being created to help exercise other ROCm code and for debugging in passing through the ROCm/HIP user-space stack...
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      Old ATI R300 Open-Source Driver Sees Another New Fix In 2026

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 March 2026

    The Radeon R300 series turns 24 years old this year and thanks to the open-source ATI R300 Gallium3D driver that began via reverse engineering, it's still continuing to see the occasional random fixes from the open-source community...
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      Ubuntu Still Figuring Out A Plan For Dealing With California's Digital Age Assurance Act

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 March 2026

    The talk this week among open-source projects from Linux distributions to app stores like Flathub is how to deal with California's latest insanity: the Digital Age Assurance Act. California's AB 1043 state law is mandating that operating systems -- Linux included -- collect age information during account setup and exposing that age to eligible apps beginning on 1 January 2027. That leaves much uncertainty for Linux distributions and other repositories/stores and more. Canonical issued a statement today to clarify that they basically don't have a solution to announce yet...
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      Using KMSCON As The Default VT Console Delayed To Fedora 45

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 March 2026

    For the past few months have been an ambitious proposal to replace FBCON with the user-space KMSCON as the default VT console starting on Fedora 44. Unfortunately, this and a few other features have now been delayed to the Fedora 45 release six months later...
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      AMD DPTCi Driver Posted For Linux To Better Enhance Ryzen Gaming Handhelds

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 March 2026

    A request for comments (RFC) patch series was posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list to introduce the AMD Dynamic Power and Thermal Configuration Interface "DPTCi" driver. With this driver it would provide better upstream Linux kernel support for tuning the power / performance / thermals of modern Ryzen-powered gaming handheld devices. Though don't get too excited right away as the driver was assembled in part by AI that is already causing a bit of a ruckus on the LKML due to lack of disclosure...
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      Google Chrome Moving To A Two-Week Release Cycle

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 March 2026

    Google announced today that beginning later this year they are moving the Chrome web browser from its four week release cycle down to a two week release cadence...