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      OpenIndiana Is Porting Solaris' IPS Package Management To Rust

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 February 2026

    OpenIndiana as the open-source project built atop Illumos that is continuing to maintain and advance the former OpenSolaris code is working on a big ambitions of modernizing the Image Packaging System (IPS) package management solution. As part of that they are working to move from a C and Python codebase over to Rust...
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      Reworked NTFS Linux Driver Posted With More Improvements & Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 February 2026

    Announced back in October was NTFS Plus as a new Linux driver for NTFS based on the former NTFS kernel driver prior to Paragon Software contributing the NTFS3 driver code. The intent with this new driver is for better performance. more features, public user-space utilities around it, and all-around a nice step forward for those reliant on this Microsoft file-system. Out this week is the sixth iteration of this remade NTFS driver...
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      Rust Coreutils 0.6 Brings Increased Compatibility, Removing Some Unsafe Code & More Perf

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 February 2026

    Following the Rust Coreutils presentation from FOSDEM this weekend, Rust Coreutils 0.6 is now available as the latest feature release for this Rust programming language re-implementation of GNU Coreutils...
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      Firefox 148 Ready With New Settings For AI Controls

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 February 2026

    With the concerns raised over comments by Mozilla's new CEO with wanting to evolve Firefox into a "modern AI browser", the Firefox 148 release due out later this month aims to address some of those concerns by having a new AI controls area within the web browser's settings...
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      Linux Prepares To Support Microsoft's "Turn On Display" DSM To Address Laptop Issues

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 February 2026

    Microsoft in Windows 11 22H2 introduced a new ACPI Device Specific Method (DSM) "Turn On Display" notification that the Linux 7.0 kernel will be adding support for in dealing with some otherwise problematic laptop behavior...
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      Git 2.53 Released With More Optimizations, One Step Closer To Making Rust Mandatory

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 February 2026

    While we might see Git 3.0 released around the end of 2026, Git 2.53 is out today as the latest feature release and continuing to make changes with an eye toward that big Git 3.0 milestone...
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      Security Researchers Find Current RISC-V CPU Implementations Coming Up Short

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 February 2026

    While many open-source enthusiasts like to flaunt RISC-V as not having the security challenges as x86_64 CPUs have seen over the past several years with various speculative execution / side-channel attacks and arguing for the benefits of an open-source ISA in stronger security, in practice it's not so clear-cut. Security researchers at Germany's CISPA Helmholtz Center for Information Security have found current RISC-V CPU implementations coming up short for their actual security...
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      Loongson 3B6000 Benchmarks: How China's LoongArch CPU Compares To AMD Zen 5, Intel Arrow Lake & Raspberry Pi 5

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 February 2026

    Recently I finally got my hands on a LoongArch processor, the ISA developed by China's Loongson Technology as an evolution from their earlier use of the MIPS64 ISA and inspired by RISC-V and other modern ISAs. The Loongson-3B6000 features 12 cores / 24 threads with dual channel DDR4 ECC memory support. Here is a look at how that latest-generation LoongArch desktop processor compares to the current generation AMD Zen 5 and Intel Arrow Lake desktop processors under Linux. Plus also tossing in the Raspberry Pi 5 (Raspberry Pi 500+) for an ARM reference point.
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      Experimental Linux Code For 1GB PUD-Level THPs Shows 34% Faster Memory Access Times

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 February 2026

    Early, experimental code for implementing 1GB PUD-level THPs in the Linux kernel are showing positive benchmark results but other upstream stakeholders were surprised by this patch series appearing and it looking like it could be a while until if/when the patches are mainlined for helping to reduce translaction lookaside buffer (TLB) pressure without resorting to Hugetlbfs...