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      Microsoft's New Open-Source Project: LiteBox As A Rust-Based Sandboxing Library OS

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February 2026

    Microsoft engineers and other stakeholders have been developing LiteBox as a security-focused library OS written in the Rust programming language and leveraging Linux Virtualization Based Security "LVBS". The design is for LiteBox to operate as a secure kernel protecting the normal guest kernel via virtualization hardware...
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      Debian's Challenge When Its Developers Quietly Drift Away

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February 2026

    You may recall the news last month around no one was left on Debian's data protection team and other volunteer staffing challenges with different Debian efforts in the past. Debian Project Leader Andreas Tille has been looking at the issue of the challenges that arise when Debian's all-volunteer developers quietly drift away either due to time commitments, other interests, or other reasons but don't properly communicate it to the Debian project...
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      Mesa 26.0-rc3 Released With More Graphics Driver Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February 2026

    Eric Engestrom is out with another on-time Mesa release. Mesa 26.0-rc3 provides the latest week's worth of bug fixes as we work toward the stable Mesa 26.0 release as soon as next week...
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      Intel Sends Out Initial Linux Patches For Xe3P_LPG Graphics With Nova Lake P

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February 2026

    In recent months Intel Linux engineers have been quite active in preparing for next-gen Nova Lake processors. That work has included initial Xe3P graphics support and enabling display support and related display/graphics functionality. The newest now is enabling Nova Lake P including the Xe3P_LPG graphics support...
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      Mesa Will Now Prevent Compiling With LTO Due To "Random Impossible-To-Debug Bugs"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February 2026

    While link-time optimizations "LTO" can deliver some nice performance benefits out of this compiler optimization technique, it can make debugging said binaries more challenging. Due to various bugs in Mesa being attributed to the use of compiler link-time optimizations when compiling Mesa, the builds are being blocked on using LTO...
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      GIMP Post-3.2 Will Be Looking At Hardware Acceleration, Full CMYK & More

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February 2026

    With GIMP 3.2 releasing soon, GIMP developer Ondřej Míchal presented at FOSDEM 2026 this past weekend on some of the feature work being eyed for post-3.2 developments...
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      Intel Driver Disabling Vulkan Video Encode On Newer Hardware Due To Insufficient Testing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February 2026

    While Vulkan Video is a cross-vendor, cross-platform video encode and decode API that is beginning to gain traction by multimedia applications and frameworks, the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver has for now taken a step-back on its encode support with newer hardware. Newer Intel graphics hardware is seeing Vulkan Video encode support disabled due to insufficient testing...
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      GNU Coreutils 9.10 Released With Many Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February 2026

    Earlier this week Rust Coreutils 0.6 released while out today is GNU Coreutils 9.10 as the de facto standard for this set of core utilities on Linux systems and other platforms...
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      LibreOffice 26.2 Released With Many Refinements To This Open-Source Office Suite

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February 2026

    LibreOffice 26.2 is now officially released as the newest half-year update to this leading open-source and cross-platform free software office suite...