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      Ubuntu Core 26 Released With Live Kernel Patching, Better OTA Updates

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 May 2026

    Following last month's release of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Canonical today released Ubuntu Core 26...
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      Linux 7.2 Will Fix The Intel P-State Driver For The New Bartlett Lake CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 May 2026

    The fix is set to land in the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel so the P-core-only Bartlett Lake processors will not report bogus maximum frequency values...
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      The Linux Kernel Working On A Rust-Based Untrusted Data API

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 May 2026

    One of the newest interfaces being worked on for the Rust programming language support within the Linux kernel is an Untrusted Data API for data received into the kernel from user-space...
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      OneXPlayer Configuration Driver Destined For Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 May 2026

    The latest Linux gaming handheld driver work by Derek Clark of Valve's Linux efforts is the OneXPlayer Configuration Driver that is now set to premiere in the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel cycle...
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      More Intel Open-Source Projects Formally Sunset: BigDL Time Series Toolkit & Others

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 May 2026

    Yet more open-source Intel software projects have been formally archived. Over the past year Intel has formally discontinued a number of open-source projects it formally maintained. Many of them were already dormant and not too noteworthy but there were also some more notable ones discontinued like their legendary Clear Linux, Software Defined Silicon, Optane Memory software projects, and then other efforts like open ecosystem community/evangelism. This past week yet more Intel software projects were formally disbanded...
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      New Intel Xe Linux Graphics Driver Code Now Cites Multiple Crescent Island SKUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 May 2026

    The latest Intel Xe kernel graphics driver patches for Linux now indicate multiple PCI IDs for the upcoming Crescent Island "CRI" accelerators rather than just a lone model...
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      Linux 7.2 Expected To Introduce "OPENAT2_REGULAR" To Avoid Tricking Secure Programs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 May 2026

    Among the VFS patches queued into "-next" branches ahead of next month's Linux 7.2 merge window is the code for introducing the new OPENAT2_REGULAR flag for the openat2 system call...
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      Linux 6.6 LTS To Linux 7.1 Bechmarks: Performance Up 13% On AMD Threadripper Over Three Years

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 May 2026

    The Linux 7.1 kernel performance has been looking quite good on the various Intel/AMD systems I have tested over the past three weeks. Linux 7.1 does bring some solid improvements over Linux 7.0 prior in different workloads and haven't encountered any worrisome regressions compared to the current Linux 7.0 stable kernel. For those wondering the longer-term picture, here are benchmarks of Linux 7.1 Git compared to recent Linux LTS kernel series going back to 2023 for providing a picture at how the upstream Linux kernel has netted 13% faster performance (geo mean) on the same hardware in less than three years.
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      Firefox 151 Now Available With Document Picture-in-Picture API

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 May 2026

    Firefox 151 release binaries are now available as the latest monthly update to Mozilla's open-source web browser...