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      Linux 7.3 PCI Code Adds Advisory Non-Fatal Errors, Intel Dunlow Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 days ago

    All of the PCI/PCIe subsystem updates for the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel were merged this week...
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      Chrome/Chromium Experimenting With Flatpak Packaging

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 days ago

    Google engineers responsible for the Chrome/Chromium web browser are experimenting with Flatpak packaging on Linux. They aren't yet committed to officially supporting Flatpak packages but for now are at least exploring the option...
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      Linux 7.0-mk2 Released For Multi-Kernel Linux With Promising Performance Results

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 days ago

    Last year a multi-kernel architecture was proposed for the Linux kernel to allow multiple independent kernel instances to co-exist on a single physical machine. Each kernel with "multikernel" Linux can run on dedicated CPU cores whole sharing the underlying hardware resources. Linux 7.0-mk2 released today with the kernel patched for this multi-kernel behavior...
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      COSMIC Epoch 1.7 Released: No Longer Slow Browsing Network Filesystems

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 days ago

    COSMIC Epoch 1.7 is out today as the newest update to this Rust-based open-source desktop environment with development led by System76...
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      LLVM/Clang 23.1 Released With AMD Zen 6 & NVIDIA Rigel Support, Partial C++26 Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 days ago

    LLVM 23.1 was released today on-schedule as the first stable release of the LLVM 23 series as the H2'2026 update to this open-source compiler stack...
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      Wayland Found To Be "Intrinsically Faster Than X11, But Not Necessarily More Efficient"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 days ago

    The PorteuX Linux distribution focused on being a high performance, modular, and minimalist distro took to forking Xfce's xfwm4 window manager into "xfwm4-gl" for OpenGL compositing support. As part of that they developed a window manager / compositor benchmark for evaluating the performance and efficiency of typical operations. Their results are fascinating...
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      AI/LLM Usage Becoming A "Denial of Service Attack" On Open-Source Project Maintainers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 days ago

    The latest criticism of the increased burden placed on open-source software project maintainers caused by AI / LLM agents is around too many bug reports effectively causing a "denial of service" attack on project maintainers...
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      Benchmarking Some Incredible Performance Gains With Btrfs On Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 days ago

    With the Btrfs pull request for Linux 7.3 having delivered more performance optimizations with some ~3x and ~5x gains mentioned in specific areas, I was eager to test out the new Btrfs performance on the in-development kernel. In today's article are some benchmarks of Btrfs on Linux 7.2 stable compared to Linux 7.3 Git with some very enticing performance gains confirmed in various workloads.
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      Apple Launches The M6 2nm 12-core CPU, Quad-Die M5 Ultra

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 days ago

    Apple today unveiled the M6 as their first 2nm SoC design while also introducing the M5 Ultra as their first quad-die product...