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      FreeBSD Updates Its Graphics Driver Port From Linux 6.12 LTS

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 June 2026

    As part of improving the experience of FreeBSD on laptops and desktops, FreeBSD developers have updated their drm-kmod port against the state of the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel...
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      Linux Finally Ends AppleTalk Protocol Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 June 2026

    While the AppleTalk networking protocols were innovative when they first appeared for their plug-and-play capabilities, Apple itself ended their AppleTalk support back in 2009. Now 17 years later, the Linux kernel is ending AppleTalk support due to a recent surge of AI-generated patches...
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      IO_uring, NVMe & Other Block + Device Mapper Changes Merged For Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 June 2026

    Linux 7.2 continues seeing a fair amount of storage-related changes from file-systems to the block device code itself, software RAID, the wonderful IO_uring interface, and more. Here is some of the latest feature work that has been merged for Linux 7.2...
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      Mozilla Firefox Usage Of zlib-rs For Better Safety & Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 June 2026

    Since the release in May of Firefox 151, Mozilla has been relying on the zlib-rs library for Gzip compression/decompression. This subtle change to use this Rust-based Zlib implementation has yielded some performance benefits and better memory safety but also some headaches when dealing with Intel CPU bugs...
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      Linux Enacts Guidance To Tighten Acceptance Of New File-Systems Into The Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 June 2026

    There is no shortage of different file-systems available for Linux. New file-systems continue to come about in the open-source world but ultimately many of them end up not being well maintained or having very limited users and not necessarily innovating enough to make them worthwhile over other alternatives. Given the continued increase in file-systems looking to get into the Linux kernel, such as FTRFS and VMUFAT being some of the most recent and then even having multiple NTFS drivers for Linux, there is now documentation in place to formally lay out criteria for new file-systems to be accepted...
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      KDE Plasma 6 Desktop Finally Comes To Slackware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 June 2026

    It's been a while since there has been any Slackware news to pass along, but this week they've finally landed the KDE Plasma 6 desktop in this legendary Linux distribution...
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      Btrfs Now Enables Large Folios By Default, Lands Huge Folios With Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 June 2026

    The Btrfs file-system feature updates have been merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel with a few noteworthy changes for this copy-on-write file-system...
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      Wayland's Weston 16 Alpha Brings HDR Improvements, Vulkan Renderer Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 June 2026

    Wayland developers have prepared the release of Weston 16.0 Alpha 1 for this reference Wayland compositor with new features...
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      Linux 7.2 Improves Anonymous/Unnamed Pipe Performance For Shell Pipelines & More

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 June 2026

    Yet another performance optimization merged for the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel is improving the speed of anon_pipe_write, the kernel function used for writing data into anonymous/unnamed pipes such as when using shell pipelines or standard streams from applications...