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      GNOME OS Creating "Test Center" As Its Take On Apple TestFlight For Experiment Software

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 July 2026

    GNOME developers working on GNOME OS have received funding from Germany's Prototype Fund to work on creating the GNOME OS "Developer Tool Suite" or also tentatively called their "Test Center" to help in testing experimental applications/libraries in a modern Linux computing world with systemd-sysext, Buildstream, and other newer tech...
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      Reworked System Call Entry Handling Slated For Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 July 2026

    Stemming from looking at a proposed Linux kernel patch to alter the Linux kernel's system call number handling, veteran Linux kernel developer Thomas Gleixner went down a rabbit hole of the kernel's system call entry handling to make a number of clean-ups and improvements to the code. That rework to the system call entry handling is now expected to land for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle...
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      Raspberry Pi 5 IOMMU Driver Being Worked On For The Mainline Linux Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 July 2026

    While the Raspberry Pi 5 is already over two and a half years old, one of the missing elements of its support from the mainline Linux kernel has been the IOMMU driver. We are now seeing Raspberry Pi's downstream IOMMU driver being adapted for mainline with hopes of getting it into the upstream kernel...
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      Cloud Hypervisor 53 Released With Offloaded Snapshot/Restore Daemon

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 July 2026

    Cloud Hypervisor 53.0 is now available for this open-source, Rust-based VMM focused on cloud workloads and modern security needs. Originally started at Intel, Cloud Hypervisor continues seeing new development these days by Microsoft, Meta, Arm, and other organizations...
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      Linux 7.2-rc3 Released: Close To The "New Normal"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 July 2026

    Linux 7.2-rc3 is now available for testing in working toward the stable Linux 7.2 kernel version coming up in August...
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      Linux 7.2 Enabling UltraRISC RISC-V Support In The Default Kernel Build

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 July 2026

    Similar to Linux 7.2 enabling Eswin SoC support by default in the RISC-V "defconfig" kernel build, UltraRISC RISC-V coverage is also now being enabled by default for RISC-V kernel builds in Linux 7.2...
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      HFI BIOS Aims To Provide A POST-Like Power On Screen & BIOS Setup Utility For RISC-V

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 July 2026

    The Harmonic Firmware Initiative "HFI" is trying to provide a generic, standardized power-on firmware experience for RISC-V boards. Akin to the x86 world with having immediate graphics card initialization to provide a display while the system is booting and also having a BIOS setup utility for system configuration, HFI is trying to do the same for the RISC-V world...
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      Linux 7.2-rc3 Bringing Fixes For The SEGA Dreamcast Drivers In 2026

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 July 2026

    It wasn't on my bingo card for the week but merged to Git ahead of today's Linux 7.2-rc3 kernel release are a number of fixes for the SEGA Dreamcast drivers...
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      Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi Linux Driver Hardened Against Malicious WiFi Access Points

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 July 2026

    The staging driver fixes that were sent out this week ahead of the Linux 7.2-rc3 release is predominantly made up of hardening the Realtek RTL8723BS WiFi driver. In particular, a number of fixes for addressing out-of-bounds behavior when connecting to "bad" WiFi hosts...