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      Linux Kernel Improvement Can Make Hibernation Several Times Faster With Slow SSDs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 February 2026

    A patch series sent out for review this weekend can significantly improve the system hibernation performance under Linux. Particularly for those with slower SSDs, the patches can make Linux hibernate up to several times faster...
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      Mesa's KosmicKrisp Vulkan-On-Metal Achieves MoltenVK Feature Parity

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 February 2026

    Announced last year by consulting firm LunarG was KosmicKrisp as a Vulkan-on-Metal driver for efficiently leveraging the Vulkan API on Apple macOS systems as an alternative to the MoltenVK project. KosmicKrisp was upstreamed for Mesa 26.0 and continues making great progress for opening up more Vulkan possibilities in Apple's world...
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      NFS Server Adds Dynamic Thread Pool Sizing In Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 February 2026

    The NFS server changes for Linux 7.0 happen to include some nice improvements for this big kernel version number release...
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      Power Sequencing Driver For PCIe M.2 Connectors Makes It Into Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 February 2026

    The power sequencing subsystem updates have been merged for the Linux 7.0 cycle. Typically not an area of the kernel too exciting but one new driver addition is the "pwrseq-pcie-m2" to provide power sequencing for PCIe M.2 connectors...
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      F2FS Delivers "Several Key Performance Optimizations" With Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 February 2026

    The Flash Friendly File-System (F2FS) has multiple performance improvements to provide its users with on the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel...
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      X.Org Server's "Master" Branch Now Closed With Cleaned Up State On "Main"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 February 2026

    This Valentine's Day there is a lot of red on the screen for the X.Org Server with the code delta as a result of renaming of their main Git development branch and in the process selectively dropping questionable patches to the prior "master" codebase...
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      Vim 9.2 Released With Experimental Wayland Support, Better HiDPI Display Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 February 2026

    Vim 9.2 is out today as the newest feature release for this robust and comprehensive text editor. This Valentine's Day release for Vim lovers brings experimental Wayland support, XDG Base Directory specification support, modernized defaults for HiDPI displays, new completion features, and an improved diff mode...
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      Linux 7.0 Merges Support For Rock Band 4 PS4 / PS5 Guitars Plus More Laptop Quirks

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 February 2026

    The HID subsystem changes were merged this week for the ongoing Linux 7.0 kernel merge window. Among the Human Interface Devices (HID) work this cycle were supporting more guitars while also adding more device IDs and different laptop quirks...
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      Intel Ends Work On Quantum Compiler Open-Source Bits

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 February 2026

    Following Intel recently discontinuing a number of open-source projects, this week they formally discontinued their Quantum Passes open-source project that was intended to provide additional passes for their LLVM-based compiler in the Intel Quantum SDK...