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      Initial Linux Driver Patches For Smart Data Accelerator Interface "SDXI"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 April 2026

    Recently sent out on the Linux kernel mailing list was the initial patches for implementing the Smart Data Accelerator Interface (SDXI) as a vendor-neutral architecture for memory-to-memory data movement offload...
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      Linux 7.1 Staging Ushered In More Developers To Make Their First Kernel Contributions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 April 2026

    Over the weekend Greg Kroah-Hartman sent out his various pull requests for the areas of the kernel he oversees. Among those is the staging area where this time around the notable activity isn't too much about feature work but many developers making some of their first contributions to the upstream kernel...
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      AMD's GAIA Makes It Easier To Import/Export Custom AI Agents Across PCs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 April 2026

    AMD on the software side continues investing heavily in GAIA "Generative AI Is Awesome" as their cross-platform solution built around the Lemonade SDK for running local AI agents on your AMD-powered hardware from CPUs to GPUs and NPUs. With today's GAIA update, custom-generated AI agents are now portable with easy import and export support...
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      HarfBuzz Continues Improving Its New GPU-Accelerated Text Shaping Library

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 April 2026

    Released at the beginning of the month was a new version of HarfBuzz, a widely-used, open-source text shaping engine. With this HarfBuzz 14.0 release it introduced a GPU-based text rasterization library that supported GLSL shaders as well as HLSL, WGSL, and APple's Metal MSL. Since then this GPU-accelerated library has been seeing more improvements...
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      Linux 7.1 KVM Adds "Very Experimental" Support For pKVM Protected Guests

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 April 2026

    The Kernel-based Virtual Machine changes were recently merged for the Linux 7.1 merge window for further enhancing KVM as this important piece of the open-source virtualization stack...
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      While New NTFS Driver Merged, NTFS3 Driver Sees Fixes & Minor Changes For Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 April 2026

    Last week saw the "NTFS resurrection" as Linux Torvalds put it with the new/overhauled NTFS driver having been merged for Linux 7.1. Even still, the NTFS3 driver that was contributed a few years ago by Paragon Software remains in the mainline kernel and today were some fixes/improvements merged for that existing driver...
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      Box64 0.4.2 Begins Working On POWER PPC64LE Backend, Support For SteamRT3 + Proton 11

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 April 2026

    While FEX-Emu has been garnering a lot of attention due to being sponsored by Valve and slated to be used by the Steam Frame for running Linux x86_64 binaries on AArch64, the Box64 project continues moving along with similar goals for x86_64 binaries on other CPU architectures...
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      Git 2.54 Released With New Experimental "git history" Command

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 April 2026

    Git developers continue working toward Git 3.0 while out today is Git 2.54 with a few interesting additions...
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      GNU Coreutils 9.11 Brings New Performance Improvements: Up To 15x Faster cat

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 April 2026

    It's not only the uutil's Rust Coreutils project seeing performance improvements but some increased healthy competition now from GNU Coreutils. With today's release of GNU Coreutils 9.11 the wc command is up to multiple times faster and even cat can be up to 15 times faster...