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      Linux 7.2 Surpasses More Than 43 Million Lines In The Kernel Tree

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 June 2026

    Today marks the last day of the Linux 7.2 merge window with Linux 7.2-rc1 due out later today. With the many new features and improvements merged over the past week since the Linux 7.1 stable debut, the Linux kernel source tree now exceeds 43 million lines...
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      Vim Patches Yielding Faster GTK3 Wayland Performance: "Major Milestone"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 June 2026

    For those using Vim with its GTK3 toolkit interface on Wayland, it soon should be delivering much better performance with pending patches...
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      Nourish: A New Wayland Compositor Powered By Vulkan With Infinite Scrolling/Panning

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 June 2026

    The newest Wayland compositor on the block is Nourish, it's a Vulkan-powered and its unique selling point is offering "infinite" zooming and panning to in effect provide an infinite workspace...
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      Reserved THP Feature Proposed For Linux To Combine The Best Of HugeTLB & THP

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 June 2026

    Linux kernel developer and Bytedance engineer Qi Zheng sent out a request for comments (RFC) patch series on a new feature called Reserved THP to combine the best of HugeTLB and THP kernel functionality...
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      Linux MD RAID5 Seeing Scalability Improvements Up To 17%

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 June 2026

    Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week was a new patch series working on scalability enhancements to the MD RAID5 software RAID code. Up to a 10~17% improvement was observed in some configurations with these RAID5 scalability patches...
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      GNOME AI Assistant Adds Image Generation Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 June 2026

    In development over the past three years has been Newelle as a GNOME-aligned AI virtual assistant. Out this week is Newelle 1.4.5 and it now adds AI image generation support and a redesigned chat interface...
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      KDE Plasma 6.7.2 To Fix KWin's Most Common Crash, Plasma 6.8 To Not Crash When Ejecting CDs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 June 2026

    While Plasma 6.7.1 was just released this week following the recent stable debut of Plasma 6.7, there are already a number of fixes piling up for Plasma 6.7.2 due out in July. Plus more feature work and fixes for Plasma 6.8 as the next desktop version going Wayland-only...
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      COSMIC's New System Monitor Is Looking Very Slick

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 June 2026

    Not only is GNOME 51 working to replace GNOME System Monitor with its new replacement, but over in System76's COSMIC space they have been baking their own new system monitor too...
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      Shotcut 26.6 Released With HDR Improvements, Vulkan Display On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 June 2026

    Shotcut 26.6 is out today as the newest major feature release for this popular cross-platform, open-source video editing solution...