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      exFAT File-System Enjoys Better Performance On Linux 7.2 With IOmap Conversion

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 June 2026

    In addition to open-source developer Namjae Jeon serving as maintainer for the new NTFS Linux driver, he also continues serving as maintainer to the exFAT file-system for that other Microsoft file-system popular with removable storage media...
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      KDE Plasma 6.8 Making It Easier To Configure Multi-Monitor Setups

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 June 2026

    With KDE's Plasma 6.7 desktop having released this week, more development attention is turning to feature work toward Plasma 6.8 but there are also some fixes already accumulating for the Plasma 6.7.1 point release...
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      New NTFS Driver Sees Hardening & Fixes, Windows Native Symlinks With Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 June 2026

    Happening back in Linux 7.1 was the "NTFS resurrection" with landing a new NTFS driver into the Linux kernel that had been years in the making and began as the former NTFS read-only kernel driver many years back before the stint of the Paragon NTFS3 driver in the Linux kernel. For Linux 7.2 that new/modern NTFS driver has seen more hardening work, some fixes, and Windows native symbolic links support...
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      Open-Source NVIDIA NVK Vulkan Driver Now Supports DLSS

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 June 2026

    With the code merged today to Mesa 26.2-devel, the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver is capable of handling Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) with modern game titles running on Linux / Steam Play...
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      AMD-Powered Barco MXRT Graphics Cards Finally Seeing Linux Driver Support Patches

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 June 2026

    Barco, the Europeean technology company that manufactures the AMD GPU based MXRT graphics cards for for multi-display medical imaging systems (and also MXRV for their NVIDIA based graphics cards), have to date only seen Windows drivers published for their professional-grade graphics cards even with using Radeon Pro derived GPUs. But a patch published today to the AMD graphics mailing list is opening the door for Linux support...
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      systemd 261 Released With New systemd-sysinstall OS Installer, IMDSD & Storagectl

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 June 2026

    Systemd 261 is out as stable today with a number of new features and ready to coincide with H2'2026 Linux distributions...
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      AMD ACP7.D/7.E/7.F Driver Added In Linux 7.2: "Substantial Design Changes" For AMD Audio

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 June 2026

    It looks like AMD's next-gen SoCs not only will be exciting on the CPU side with the much anticipated Zen 6 cores but the AMD Audio Co-Processor "ACP" IP looks to be going through some significant updates...
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      Linux 7.2 Brings More Work Around WiFi Aware, WiFi 8 / UHR & More Networking Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 June 2026

    The networking subsystem changes have been merged for Linux 7.2 with a lot happening around the core networking code as well as the many wired and wireless networking device drivers...
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      Raspberry Pi OS Moves To Linux 6.18 LTS Kernel, Updated LabWC Compositor

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 June 2026

    Raspberry Pi engineers have released their first update to Raspberry Pi OS since April. With this new version comes the upgrade to the latest Linux 6.18 LTS kernel...