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      Linux 8250/16550 UART Serial Driver Seeing Some Modernization Work In 2026

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 June 2026

    The Linux 8250 serial driver as the universal/legacy driver for 8250 and 16550 type serial ports has been seeing some modernization work recently with a number of 8250 serial patches having now been merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel...
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      New Hygon Model 8 "Suzhou" x86 CPU Support Appears In The GCC Compiler

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 June 2026

    A seemingly new generation of Hygon x86 processors are on the way with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) seeing support today for the Hygon Model 8 "Suzhou" c86-4g-m8 processors...
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      Linux 7.2 RISC-V Reduces Kernel Startup Overhead, Eswin SoC Support By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 June 2026

    Along with the many x86/x86_64 improvements and some ARM64 architecture improvements (albeit slowed down by the AI/LLM noise affecting the development pace), the RISC-V architecture changes were merged last week for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel development...
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      KDE Plasma 6.7.1 Released With Initial Batch Of Bug Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 June 2026

    Following last week's major Plasma 6.7 release, Plasma 6.7.1 is now available today with an initial assortment of bug fixes...
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      USB4STREAM Merged For Linux 7.2 To Quickly Send Data Between USB4 Connected Systems

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 June 2026

    As part of today's USB/Thunderbolt subsystem updates for the ongoing Linux 7.2 kernel merge window, USB4STREAM was merged as a nifty and exciting addition to opening up some interesting USB4 connnectivity use-cases for high speed, low latency data transfers...
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      Intel Optimization Zone 1.1 Lays Out Tuning Recommendations For More Workloads

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 June 2026

    Back in March Intel announced the Optimization Zone as a new initiative for helping server administrators and developers better maximize the performance of different workloads running on Intel hardware. Out today is the Intel Optimization Zone 1.1 release with more workloads now covered for squeezing out the most performance on Intel CPUs...
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      Steam Machine Launches, Priced $1049 To $1428 USD

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 June 2026

    Valve today finally revealed pricing on their SteamOS Linux-powered Steam Machine living room PC. Given the ongoing RAM and storage pricing pressure, the Steam Machine pricing comes in at the high-end...
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      Benchmarking Bcachefs 1.38.6: The First Release No Longer "Experimental"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 June 2026

    Released last week was Bcachefs 1.38.6 with a host of performance improvements to this out-of-tree, copy-on-write file-system. Given all the performance improvements and this being the first release since Kent Overstreet dropped the "experimental" flag on the file-system, I decided to fire up some benchmarks looking at how the Bcachefs file-system performance has changed with this new version.
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      Xfce Wayland Compositor Sees First Preview/Alpha Release

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 June 2026

    Over the past half-year, Xfwl4 has been developed as a Wayland compositor for the Xfce desktop environment. Released this weekend was the first preview release of Xfwl4 in alpha form...