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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...
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      DNF 5.4 Released With Some New Options & AI Contributions Policy

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 February 2026

    DNF 5.4 is out today as the latest release for this next-generation RPM package management solution used by Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and various other RPM-based Linux distributions...
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      KDE Plasma 6.6 Released With Many Excellent Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 February 2026

    KDE Plasma 6.6 is now officially out as the newest feature update to this prominent open-source desktop environment. Plasma 6.6 is self-described by KDE developers as "the best desktop in the known universe (according to us). Plasma 6.6 is all about making your life as easy as possible without sacrificing any of the flexibility."..
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      Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 February 2026

    The Gentoo Linux project last year announced plans to move their code hosting to Codeberg rather than GitHub. Gentoo's desire to move away from GitHub was motivated by Microsoft's Copilot training on GitHub repositories. Those plans are turning into action now with the main Gentoo project up on Codeberg and honoring pull requests...
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      Linux 7.0 CXL Enables AMD Zen 5 Address Translation Feature

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 February 2026

    A long-in-development feature for AMD EPYC Zen 5 server platforms now merged for the Linux 7.0 kernel is ACPI PRMT-based address translation for the Compute Express Link (CXL) subsystem...
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      Idea Raised For Nicer DRM Panic Screen Integration On Fedora Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 February 2026

    DRM Panic is the Linux kernel infrastructure now supported by most of the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display drivers for being able to render a QR code kernel error message or similar when a kernel panic occurs to provide a cleaner interface should your system run into serious problems. An idea has been raised now within the Fedora Linux camp to provide an improved experience around this feature akin to Windows' "Blue Screen of Death" functionality...
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      Lutris 0.5.20 Linux Game Manager Brings New Features, Wine Wayland Option

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 February 2026

    For fans of Lutris as the open-source desktop client for installing and playing many games on Linux, Lutris 0.5.20 is out today with new features that further enhance the integration with different emulators and compatibility layers...
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      RISC-V In Linux 7.0 Brings User-Space CFI & Optimized strlen Assembly

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 February 2026

    The RISC-V architecture updates have been merged for Linux 7.0 with a few items to note...