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      NULLFS & OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE Features Merged For Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 February 2026

    Christian Brauner sent in a dozen VFS pull requests that are now-merged today for the Linux 7.0 kernel. The VFS pull requests worth noting right away in this article are the introduction of the NULLFS and OPEN_TREE_NAMESPACE features...
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      Btrfs Brings Experimental Remap-Tree Feature & More In Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 February 2026

    Among the pull requests merged today on this first day of the Linux 7.0 merge window are the many Btrfs file-system feature updates...
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      Redox OS Gets Cargo & The Rust Compiler Running On This Open-Source OS

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 February 2026

    The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system is now able to leverage Cargo and the Rust compiler "rustc" itself running within this platform. Plus they also made a heck of a lot of other improvements too over the course of the past month. Today they published a status update to outline all of the promising advancements made to this independent OS so far in 2026...
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      AMD openSIL + Coreboot Being Ported To A Modern AM5 Consumer Motherboard

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 February 2026

    While we are very eager for the AMD openSIL open-source CPU silicon initialization project to achieve production readiness with Zen 6 platforms for ultimately replacing AGESA, there is some experimental excitement on the way for open-source firmware enthusiasts... OpenSIL and Coreboot are being brought to an AM5 motherboard you can buy retail...
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      Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance For Intel Core Ultra X7 Panther Lake

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 February 2026

    Last week I began publishing the many exciting Panther Lake benchmarks under Linux from the interesting CPU performance and efficiency to the much anticipated Xe3 graphics with the Intel Arc B390 graphics. Up today is a look at how the out-of-the-box performance for the Intel Core Ultra X7 358H compares under Microsoft Windows 11 and the current Ubuntu Linux 26.04 development state.
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      Blender 5.1 Lands Raycast Nodes, Blender Adjusting Release Cycle Moving Forward

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 February 2026

    Two interesting bits of Blender news this week for those fond of this leading open-source 3D modeling software...
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      Debian's tag2upload Reaches GA For Improving Packaging Workflow

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 February 2026

    Debian's tag2upload has finally reached general availability "GA" status for helping Debian developers/maintainers with an improved Git-based packaging workflow...
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      GNU Linux-Libre 6.19 Deals With More Firmware Blobs In Intel Xe, IWLWIFI & NVIDIA Nova

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 February 2026

    Building off yesterday's Linux 6.19 release is now the GNU Linux-libre 6.19-gnu downstream release that strips out support for open-source drivers dependent upon binary-only microcode/firmware and other elements deemed against free software standards, removing the ability to load non-open-source kernel modules, and similar restrictions in the name of software freedom...
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      AMD Linux Driver Readying Peak Tops Limiter "PTL" Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 February 2026

    The AMDGPU and AMDKFD Linux kernel graphics driver code has been readying support for the Peak Tops Limiter (PTL) as a new feature to the latest Instinct accelerators...