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      An Enticing Optimization For Linux Memory Reclaim On Today's Multi-Core Platforms

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 March 2026

    A new set of Linux kernel patches for batch TLB flushing for dirty folios within the kernel's vmscan path were recently floated on the Linux kernel mailing list. This batch TLB flushing optimization for dirty folios during memory reclaim can be a significant performance win with today's multi-core hardware...
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      ASUS Armoury & HP WMI Drivers Add More Laptops Ahead Of Linux 7.0-rc6

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 March 2026

    Merged today was another round of platform-drivers-x86 changes for the ongoing Linux 7.0 cycle. There are bug fixes plus some new hardware support additions that make this merge notable. Due to the new hardware support amounting to just device IDs and not risking existing hardware support, it's fine for merging at this late stage of Linux 7.0 development...
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      Fedora 45 Plan Approved For Web Frontend To Linux's "Blue Screen of Death" DRM Panic

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 March 2026

    With just a few weeks to go until the official Fedora 44 release, there is already feature planning and activity beginning for Fedora 45 that will be released toward the end of 2026. Among the early feature approvals is a new web front-end feature to the DRM Panic "Blue/Black Screen of Death" functionality with a specialized QR code for kernel errors...
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      AMD ROCm 7.2.1 Released With Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS Support, Bug Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 March 2026

    Building off the release of ROCm 7.2 from January, ROCm 7.2.1 is now available with Ubuntu 24.04.4 LTS support as well as various bug fixes to this open-source AMD Radeon/Instinct GPU compute stack...
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      KDE Plasma 6.6 Delivers An Impressive Edge For Radeon Graphics Over GNOME 50 On Ubuntu 26.04

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 March 2026

    In testing thus far on Ubuntu 26.04, the KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop with the Wayland session is working pretty darn well and delivering a performance edge across many games/graphics workloads compared to the default GNOME 50 desktop. At least as far as AMD Radeon graphics are concerned, Plasma 6.6 is in quite impressive shape for the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release.
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      Intel Announces Arc Pro B70 With 32GB GDDR6 Video Memory

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 March 2026

    Alongside announcing the new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake parts with vPro for commercial PCs and the Xeon 600 workstation processors, Intel finally announced their professional "big Battlemage" BMG-G31 graphics card with the Arc Pro B70 as well as the Arc Pro B65...
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      FreeCAD 1.1 Brings Many Improvements For Open-Source CAD

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 March 2026

    FreeCAD 1.1 is out today as the newest feature release for this leading open-source CAD application...
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      Lemonade 10.0.1 Improves Setup Process For Using AMD Ryzen AI NPUs On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 March 2026

    Earlier this month with the release of the Lemonade SDK 10.0 and FastFlowLM 0.9.35, using AMD Ryzen AI NPUs for running LLMs on Linux finally became feasible. AMD XDNA 2 NPUs can now run on Linux well for LLM workloads! Released on Tuesday was Lemonade 10.0.1 with a few improvements for the setup process of this local LLM open-source solution on Linux...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 Looks To Strip Its GRUB Bootloader To The Bare Minimum For Better Security

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 March 2026

    Ubuntu developers at Canonical are looking to strip the signed GRUB bootloader features to the bare minimum for the Ubuntu 26.10 release later this year. Dropping support for XFS, ZFS, Btrfs, LVM, md-raid (except RAID1), LUKS-encrypted disks, and other features is being looked at in the name of security...