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      Cache Aware Scheduling Merged For Linux 7.2 For Boosting Modern Intel & AMD CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 June 2026

    The scheduler updates were merged this morning for the Linux 7.2 kernel and it's exciting. Cache Aware Scheduling has finally been merged! This is a win for especially modern Intel and AMD processors with multiple last level caches (LLCs)...
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      Linux 7.2 Introducing The Rust Zerocopy Library To Eliminate More "Unsafe" Code

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 June 2026

    Miguel Ojeda already mailed in the many Rust code changes for the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel. This is quite a big Rust code with more than forty thousand new lines of Rust code in the kernel...
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      Linux 7.2 To Better Communicate File-System Casefolding For Helping Windows NFS & More

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 June 2026

    Newly-merged code for the in-development Linux 7.2 kernel will now expose the case-folding (case insensitive) behavior of local file-systems so that Linux file servers and others can properly report the actual behavior rather than guessing if case-folding is actually used/supported...
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      GNU Linux-libre 7.1-gnu Released With More Driver Deblobbing, Unhappy With i486 Removal

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 June 2026

    Following yesterday's release of the upstream Linux 7.1 kernel release, GNU Linux-libre 7.1 is out with its new build for de-blobbing various drivers from loading non-free-software microcode/firmware and other sanitizing of the kernel code in the name of software freedom...
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      Linux 7.2 To Raise LLVM/Clang Compiler Requirement, Add Support For Distributed ThinLTO

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 June 2026

    Among the early pull requests sent in prior to today's Linux 7.1 release of new material aiming for Linux 7.2 were all the Kbuild updates...
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      Linux 7.1 Released: New NTFS Driver, Intel FRED For Panther Lake, Faster Arc Graphics

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 June 2026

    Linus Torvalds just released the stable Linux 7.1 kernel and it's coming a half-day early thanks to his travel plans...
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      Arch Linux AUR Hit By Another Wave Of Now More Sophisticated Malware Attack

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 June 2026

    Just a day after Arch Linux developers believed they got their malware AUR incident under control with 1,500+ packages affected by malware, another round of of AUR malware is now being discovered. This latest round is more sophisticated as with code obfuscation to better conceal the intent...
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      Revised AVX-512 xor_gen() Implementation For Linux RAID Yielding More Performance Gains

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 June 2026

    A few days back I wrote about Google's Eric Biggers spearheading an AVX-512 implementation of xor_gen() as the Linux kernel function used for generating and validating parity blocks such as for RAID5/RAID6. That initial implementation was yielding up to 41% better performance while a new implementation has now been posted for scoring some additional victories...
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      pkgcli As PackageKit's Modern, Nicer Command Line Interface

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 June 2026

    Open-source developer Matthias Klumpp wrote a blog post today outlining his recent work developing pkgcli, a new and modern command-line interface (CLI) around the PackageKit package management abstraction layer...