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      NTFS3 Driver Sees Improvements In Linux 7.0 While "NTFS Remake" Driver Bakes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 February 2026

    The NTFS3 driver maintained by Paragon Software for Microsoft NTFS file-systems today saw a batch of improvements merged for Linux 7.0 This comes as there is also the competing "NTFS Remake" driver that began a few months ago as the "NTFSPLUS" driver. That NTFS Remake driver isn't looking like it will be submitted for the Linux 7.0 merge window so at least for now the NTFS3 driver continues seeing improvements with the latest mainline kernel code...
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      AMD Preparing Linux Kernel For "RMPOPT" To Help Reduce Overhead On SEV-SNP Servers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 February 2026

    AMD sent out a set of Linux kernel patches today for enabling use of a new instruction dubbed RMPOPT. Given the timing of these patches, RMPOPT is presumably a feature coming with next-gen AMD EPYC Zen 6 "Venice" processors...
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      Linux 7.0 Lands New TI RGB LED Driver With "Autonomous Animation Engine" Control

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 February 2026

    The LED subsystem updates for the Linux kernel typically aren't too noteworthy each kernel cycle but with Linux 7.0 is a new TI RGB LED driver that captured my attention in being curious over its "autonomous animation engine" integration...
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      Linux 7.0 Merges "Significant Improvement" For close_range System Call

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 February 2026

    The close_range system call for closing all file descriptors "FDs" in a given range should enjoy a nice speed boost with the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel...
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      Experimental Out-Of-Tree Code Aims To Provide HDMI 2.1 FRL For AMD Linux Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 February 2026

    One of the limitations of the AMDGPU Linux kernel graphics driver has been the lack of its support for HDMI 2.1 and later. AMD has wanted to support HDMI 2.1+ functionality under Linux but it's been legally blocked by the HDMI Forum. But anxious independent users have been working on open-source patches for wiring up HDMI 2.1 into the AMDGPU driver outside of the realm of AMD and the HDMI Forum's blessings...
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      GhostBSD To Use XLibre Server, MATE vs. Gershwin Desktop Decision In Future

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 February 2026

    GhostBSD lead developer Eric Turgeon published an update regarding X.Org Server vs. XLibre vs. Wayland planning for the GhostBSD distribution moving forward as well as some future uncertainties to this desktop-focused, FreeBSD-derived OS...
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      Intel Xeon 6 Granite Rapids Memory Scaling Performance From 6 To 12 MRDIMMs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 February 2026

    With memory pricing being as wild as it is these days and with MRDIMMs on Xeon 6 Granite Rapids offering much more memory bandwidth than conventional DDR5 RDIMMs, you may be wondering about the performance impact when not populating all twelve memory channels on the Xeon 6900 series processors. In this article are benchmarks to demonstrate the performance difference of MRDIMM-8800 memory across using six, eight, ten, and twelve MRDIMMs with a Xeon 6980P server.
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      Microsoft .NET On Linux Adapted To Use IO_uring Yield Massive Performance Benefits

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 February 2026

    A pull request for the Microsoft .NET Runtime build on Linux to use IO_uring for sockets is showing some massive performance benefits...
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      Nova Lake S Support Added To Intel LPSS Driver In Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 February 2026

    The latest Nova Lake enablement work for the Linux kernel to land is adding support for Nova Lake S platforms to the Intel LPSS driver in the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel...