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      Linux 6.19-rc8 Released Ahead Of Linux 6.19 Stable Next Week

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 February 2026

    While typically the stable Linux kernel would come after the -rc7 release a week prior, for Linux 6.19 the release is being dragged out by an extra week not due to any scary bugs but rather due to the holiday downtime at the end of the year. As such Linux 6.19-rc8 is out today with the stable v6.19 release expected next Sunday...
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      GNU Hurd Is "Almost There" With x86_64, SMP & ~75% Of Debian Packages Building

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 February 2026

    Samuel Thibault offered up a status update on the current state of GNU/Hurd from a presentation in Brussels at FOSDEM 2026. Thibault has previously shared updates on GNU Hurd from the annual FOSDEM event while this year's was a bit more optimistic thanks to recent driver progress and more software now successfully building for Hurd...
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      GNOME Resources 1.10 Adds Monitoring Support For AMD Ryzen AI NPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 February 2026

    GNOME Resources 1.10 was christened today as the newest version of this modern system monitoring app for the GNOME desktop that is now used by default on the likes of the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. With GNOME Resources 1.10 they have added AMD Ryzen AI NPU monitoring support and other new capabilities...
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      Linux's b4 Kernel Development Tool Now Dog-Feeding Its AI Agent Code Review Helper

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 February 2026

    The b4 tool used by Linux kernel developers to help manage their patch workflow around contributions to the Linux kernel has been seeing work on a text user interface to help with AI agent assisted code reviews. This weekend it successfully was dog feeding with b4 review TUI reviewing patches on the b4 tool itself...
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      smolBSD Builds On The NetBSD-MicroVM Kernel For Booting To Service VMs In Milliseconds

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 February 2026

    A new BSD distribution I only learned about for the first time this weekend is smolBSD, a project built atop the netbsd-MICROVM kernel coming with NetBSD 11 for providing insanely fast booting micro-VMs intended for micro-services and similar environments...
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      cTGP Graphics Power Setting Coming For Uniwill / TUXEDO Laptops With Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 February 2026

    Upstreamed for the Linux 6.19 kernel is the Uniwill laptop platform driver for exposing more features/settings for laptops made by this Taiwanese OEM/ODM, including the laptops from TUXEDO Computers. Coming for the next kernel cycle is further extending the Uniwill platform driver for now having support for adjusting the custom total graphics power "cTGP" for those laptops with a dedicated GPU...
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      Linux Kernel AI Chatter, ReactOS Developments & AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Topped January

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 February 2026

    During the last month on Phoronix were 296 original news articles from the Linux/open-source perspective as well as another 18 featured articles / Linux hardware reviews, written by your's truly. Here is a look back at the most popular news and reviews in the Linux world over the past month...
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      Framework 13 To See Fan Target & Fan Temperature Thresholds Support With Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 February 2026

    For newer Framework devices like the Framework 13 AMD that make use of the ChromeOS Embedded Controller (EC), the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel is adding fan target support as well as fan temperature threshold handling...
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      Linux 7.0 Aims To Replace More Caching Code With Sheaves For "Hopefully" Improved Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 February 2026

    Introduced to the mainline Linux kernel last year was "sheaves" as an opt-in per-CPU array-based caching layer. Sheaves was merged back in Linux 6.18 and while it started as an opt-in caching layer, the plan is to replace more CPU slabs / caches with sheaves. Queued up for slated introduction in the upcoming Linux 7.0 cycle is replacing more of those caches with sheaves...