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      Ubuntu Maker Canonical Joins The Rust Foundation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 March 2026

    Canonical announced today that they have joined the Rust Foundation as a Gold Member...
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      AMD Posts Latest "pghot" Code For Overhauling Linux Hot Page Tracking & Promotion

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 March 2026

    One of the core Linux infrastructure improvements that AMD engineers have been working on recently is pghot as a hot-page tracking and promotion subsystem. This proposed addition to the Linux kernel could be quite beneficial especially for those using modern AMD EPYC servers with CXL and multiple memory tiers...
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      Arm Ethos U85 NPU Now Supported By EthosU Gallium3D Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 March 2026

    Merged overnight for Mesa 26.1 is enabling the Arm Ethos U85 NPU within the EthosU Gallium3D driver so that with Mesa's TEFLON framework can begin taking on AI workloads...
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      Linux 7.0-rc5 Released: Linux 7.0 "Starting To Calm Down"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 March 2026

    Linus Torvalds just issued Linux 7.0-rc5 as we inch toward the stable Linux 7.0 kernel release in April...
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      D7VK 1.6 Overhauls Interaction With DXVK's D3D9 Backend

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 March 2026

    D7VK is the open-source project that began as a Direct3D 7 implementation atop the Vulkan API for Linux gamers and with time expanded to support all the way back to Direct3D 3. Out today is D7VK 1.6 with continuing to enhance this D3D compatibility layer atop Vulkan for enhancing retro/vintage gaming on Linux...
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      mdadm 4.6 Released With Boot Failure Fixes, New Lockless Bitmap

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 March 2026

    The mdadm utility for managing software RAID on Linux systems is out with a new release that adds new features while addressing some recent boot failure issues that were reported...
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      Electron's Investment Into Good Wayland Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 March 2026

    For years Electron apps were notorious for continuing to depend upon X11/XWayland and not jive well with the modern Wayland experience on modern Linux desktops. But for the past several months, Wayland has been well supported out-of-the-box on upstream Electron. An Electron blog post this week outlined the technical work done for achieving good Wayland support...
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      Wine-Staging 11.5 Released With A Few New Patches

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 March 2026

    Building off Friday's exciting release of Wine 11.5 with Syscall User Dispatch support, Wine-Staging 11.5 is now available for this experimental/testing build of Wine that at the moment is some 228 patches atop the upstream code...
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      Loongson Linux Display Driver No Longer Orphaned

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 March 2026

    The Loongson Direct Rendering Manager driver for handling the display controller on LS7A/LS2K SoCs is no longer orphaned with new Loongson engineers stepping up to maintain the code moving forward...