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      Modern AMD Graphics Driver Surpasses Six Million Lines Of Code In Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 February 2026

    It was less than four years ago that the modern AMDGPU/AMDKFD open-source driver stack was at four million lines of C code and header files. Now with the Linux 7.0 kernel it has surpassed six million lines. Or put another way, by the same calculations Linux 7.0-rc1 is at 39.2 million with the modern AMD kernel graphics driver now making up 15% of the kernel's entire codebase as the single largest driver...
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      Intel ANV Driver Sees Several Vulkan Video H.265 Encode Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 February 2026

    For those interested in Vulkan Video on the Intel "ANV" open-source Linux driver, merged last week to Mesa 26.1-devel were some H.265 encode fixes...
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      RBOS 2026-02-22 As Latest Linux Live ISO To Showcase Wayland

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 February 2026

    While these days nearly every major desktop Linux distribution is using Wayland or at least making it available, a decade ago before reaching that maturity one of the options for showing off the potential of Wayland was the oddly-named RebeccaBlack OS. With "RBOS" it shipped the very latest Wayland components and different desktop and toolkit options to easily try out Wayland-based environments from a live Linux environment. Released overnight was a surprise update to RBOS...
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      Red Hat Releases Tuned 2.27 For Adaptively Tuning Linux To Different Workloads

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 February 2026

    Red Hat engineers this weekend released Tuned 2.27, the newest version of their open-source project to provide a tuning profile delivery mechanism for Linux. Tuned makes it easier to adjust Linux power and performance characteristics depending upon the hardware and the different workload(s) for your Linux system deployment. Tuned is a replacement/alternative to Linux's cpupower and power-profiles-daemon utilities...
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      Linux 7.0-rc1 Released With Many New Features:

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 February 2026

    Linus Torvalds just capped off the Linux 7.0 merge window with the release of Linux 7.0-rc1. While the big version bump is coincidental with Linus Torvalds liking to bump it after x.19, Linux 7.0 is quite heavy on new features...
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      Linux 7.0 Credits Now Honor The Creator Of Linux-Next

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 February 2026

    There's the usual flurry of last minute fixes and other items being herded into the Linux 7.0 codebase today right ahead of the merge window being closed with the imminent Linux 7.0-rc1 release. Among that last minute work is now recognizing Stephen Rothwell's contributions to creating and maintaining Linux-Next over the past eighteen years...
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      GNU Gawk 5.4 Released With New MinRX Regex Matcher, Faster Reading Of Files

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 February 2026

    Developers behind the widely-used GNU Awk text processing utility today released Gawk 5.4...
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      AOMedia Open Audio Codec "OAC" Aims To Be The Successor To Opus

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 February 2026

    While the Alliance For Open Media "AOMedia" is most known for developing the AV1 open video codec, the associated AV1 Image File Format (AVIF), and the next-generation AV2, they are now working on the Open Audio Codec (AOC)...
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      AMD Zen 6 Performance Events & Metrics Merged For Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 February 2026

    Ahead of the Linux 7.0 merge window closing later today with the Linux 7.0-rc1 release, the performance "perf" subsystem tooling changes were merged on Saturday. Among the notable changes here are the performance events and metrics handling for upcoming AMD Zen 6 processors...