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      Qualcomm Posts Patches For New DSP Accelerator Linux Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 February 2026

    The newest driver proposed for the Linux kernel's accelerator "accel" subsystem is named QDA and is a Qualcomm DSP Accelerator driver...
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      Intel Releases OpenVINO 2026 With Improved NPU Handling, Expanded LLM Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 February 2026

    Intel's open-source OpenVINO AI toolkit is out with its first major release of 2026. With today's OpenVINO 2026.0 release there is expanded large language model (LLM) support, improved Intel NPU support for Core Ultra systems, and a variety of other enhancements for benefiting Intel's CPU / NPU / GPU range of products for AI...
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      Firefox 148 Now Available With The New AI Controls / AI Kill Switches

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 February 2026

    Firefox 148 release binaries are now available ahead of the official release announcement on Tuesday. Most notable is the new AI controls found with Firefox 148 for those wishing to disable Firefox's growing AI capabilities...
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      Linux 7.0 Features Include More Preparations For AMD Zen 6 & Intel Nova Lake

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 February 2026

    While the version bump to 7.0 is driven solely by Linus Torvalds' versioning preferences, with Linux 7.0 there are many great changes to be found in this upcoming stable kernel version to power the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. Here is a recap of all the interesting changes with Linux 7.0.
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      FreeBSD's Rust Kernel Support Could Be Stable Enough To Try This Year

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 February 2026

    The FreeBSD Project has published their Q4'2025 status report to outline progress made on their software, infrastructure, and other initiatives over the past quarter. Meanwhile among the work to look forward to this year in FreeBSD is getting their Rust kernel driver support up to scratch...
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      Modern AMD Graphics Driver Surpasses Six Million Lines Of Code In Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 February 2026

    It was less than four years ago that the modern AMDGPU/AMDKFD open-source driver stack was at four million lines of C code and header files. Now with the Linux 7.0 kernel it has surpassed six million lines. Or put another way, by the same calculations Linux 7.0-rc1 is at 39.2 million with the modern AMD kernel graphics driver now making up 15% of the kernel's entire codebase as the single largest driver...
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      Intel ANV Driver Sees Several Vulkan Video H.265 Encode Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 February 2026

    For those interested in Vulkan Video on the Intel "ANV" open-source Linux driver, merged last week to Mesa 26.1-devel were some H.265 encode fixes...
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      RBOS 2026-02-22 As Latest Linux Live ISO To Showcase Wayland

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 February 2026

    While these days nearly every major desktop Linux distribution is using Wayland or at least making it available, a decade ago before reaching that maturity one of the options for showing off the potential of Wayland was the oddly-named RebeccaBlack OS. With "RBOS" it shipped the very latest Wayland components and different desktop and toolkit options to easily try out Wayland-based environments from a live Linux environment. Released overnight was a surprise update to RBOS...
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      Red Hat Releases Tuned 2.27 For Adaptively Tuning Linux To Different Workloads

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 February 2026

    Red Hat engineers this weekend released Tuned 2.27, the newest version of their open-source project to provide a tuning profile delivery mechanism for Linux. Tuned makes it easier to adjust Linux power and performance characteristics depending upon the hardware and the different workload(s) for your Linux system deployment. Tuned is a replacement/alternative to Linux's cpupower and power-profiles-daemon utilities...