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      A Lot Of Exciting Changes To Look Forward To With Linux 6.20 -- Or Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:00

    With Linux 6.19 due for release later today it then opens up the next kernel merge window. It could be Linux 6.20 but more than likely the next kernel version will be called Linux 7.0 with Linus Torvalds' past tradition of bumping the major version number after X.19. Whatever it ends up being called, here is a look at various "-next" changes that have been queuing up ahead of the merge window...
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      Intel Appears To Have Quietly Sunset "On Demand" Software Defined Silicon

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:20

    Back in 2021 on Phoronix was first to report on Intel preparing Linux patches for a "Software Defined Silicon" feature for activating extra licensed hardware features. That Software Defined Silicon support continued moving forward and was then announced as Intel On Demand with a focus on users being able to pay to activate additional accelerators found on select SKUs but not enabled by default...
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      Wine-Staging 11.2 Brings More Patches To Help Adobe Photoshop On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:02

    Building off Friday's release of Wine 11.2 is now Wine-Staging 11.2 as this experimental/testing version of Wine with hundreds of extra patches that have yet to be introduced in upstream proper for this open-source software enabling Windows games and applications on Linux. Notable in this bi-weekly update are more patches for continuing to improve the Adobe Photoshop installer support on Linux...
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      Intel Releases QATlib 26.02 With New APIs For Zero-Copy DMA

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:50

    Of Intel's different CPU accelerator IPs, the arguably most useful and with the greatest customer interest remains around QuickAssist Technology (QAT). Intel QAT allows offloading various compression and encryption tasks for better performance. Intel this week released QATlib 26.02 as the newest version of their user-space library for leveraging QuickAssist Technology on capable hardware...
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      DreamWorks' OpenMoonRay 2.40 Introduces New GUI, Light Path Visualizer

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:42

    Back in 2022 DreamWorks Animation announced they were open-sourcing their MoonRay renderer and was then published in early 2023 for this renderer that has been used in a variety of featured animated films. Since then they have continued advancing this MoonRay code via the open-source OpenMoonRay project and this week published their newest feature update...
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      Microsoft On QEMU 10.2's New MSHV Accelerator For Hyper-V Guests

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:25

    With QEMU 10.2 that released at the end of last year is the new "MSHV" accelerator for allowing VMs to be created from a Microsoft Hyper-V guest without using nested virtualization. Last weekend at FOSDEM 2026 was a presentation on this MSHV accelerator for those interested...
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      Linux 6.19 Features Include Many Benefits For Intel & AMD Users

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    With the Linux 6.19 stable kernel expected to be released tomorrow (8 February), here is a reminder about the top features to expect from this next version of the Linux kernel...
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      NetBSD 11.0-RC1 Available For Testing With Enhanced Linux Emulation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    The first release candidate of the big NetBSD 11.0 release is now available for testing...
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      Initial AMD Zen 6 "znver6" Support Merged For LLVM/Clang

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Merged overnight to the LLVM/Clang compiler's codebase was initial targeting for next-generation AMD Zen 6 processors using the znver6 target...