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      Acer Laptop Battery Control Driver Looks Toward The Upstream Linux Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 January 2026

    For those with Acer laptops running Linux on GitHub there has been an out-of-tree driver providing an experimental "acer-wmi-battery" kernel module to allow controlling battery-related features. Now a cleaned-up version of that driver is working on getting into the mainline Linux kernel...
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      DRM Splash Screen Updated To Simply Drawing A Colored Background, Displaying A BMP Image

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 January 2026

    Back in October was an initial proposal for a DRM splash screen client for the Linux kernel that would be primarily useful for embedded systems for rendering a simple "splash screen" when updating the system firmware/software, early display activation at boot, during system recovery, or similar processes. Sent out today was a second revision to the DRM splash screen code...
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      Linux's Old Mount API Code On The Chopping Block For The 7.0 Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 January 2026

    The Linux kernel's "new mount API" that has been in the kernel since 2019 and recently made rounds for taking 6+ years to land the man page documentation on it will soon be the the only mount API internally within the kernel. Removing the "old" Linux kernel mount API internals is a candidate for the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel cycle...
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      Gentoo Linux Made Progress On RISC-V, WSL, & More While Pulling In Just $12k USD

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 January 2026

    The Gentoo Linux project published their 2025 retrospective this week with their many accomplishments, including the recruitment of four more developers and now being up to 31,663 ebuilds and a total of 89GB worth of x86_64 binary packages on mirrors...
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      All Fedora 44 KDE Variants To Use Plasma Login Manager Rather Than SDDM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 January 2026

    The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved a Fedora 44 change for switching all KDE variants away from using the SDDM display manager to instead use the newer Plasma Login Manager...
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      Redox OS Begins Developing Its Own Intel Graphics Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 January 2026

    The Rust-written Redox OS operating system had an exciting end to the year as it began developing its own native Intel graphics driver...
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      Transparent Hugepage Performance On Linux 6.18 LTS: Madvise vs. Always

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 January 2026

    With some Linux distributions like Fedora Workstation and Ubuntu defaulting to "madvise" Transparent Hugepages (THP) while others like CachyOS and openSUSE defaulting to "always", you may be curious about the madvise vs. always THP difference in modern Linux environments. If so this round of benchmarking is for you in looking at the performance impact of madvise vs. always THP.
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      Pre-Compiled Headers Being Debated For LLVM/Clang To Speed-Up Build By 1.5~2x

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 January 2026

    LLVM developers and other stakeholders have begun debating the use of pre-compiled headers "PCH" as a means of speeding up the compiulation of the LLVM compiler infrastructure by 1.5x to 2x than with non-PCH builds...
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      Revised Steam Survey For December 2025 Puts Linux Gaming Marketshare At 3.58%

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 January 2026

    Back on the 1st Valve published the Steam Survey results for December 2025 and they put the Linux gaming marketshare at 3.19%, a 0.01% dip from November. But now the December results have been revised with a nice bump to the Linux marketshare...