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      Canonical's Multipass 1.17 Adds Direct Support For Non-Ubuntu Linux Distros

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:17

    Canonical's Multipass software is used for orchestrating Ubuntu virtual instances with a single command to launch Ubuntu VMs across Windows, macOS, and Linux. Multipass 1.17 was released today and they are now offering direct support for enabling non-Ubuntu Linux distributions as well...
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      GNU Linux-libre 7.3-gnu Removes More Firmware Blobs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:57

    GNU Linux-libre 7.3 is now available following yesterday's Linux 7.3 release. The GNU Linux-libre downstream continues stripping out driver/hardware support where dependent upon firmware blobs or other proprietary elements deemed out of line with free software ideals...
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      GNOME Mutter Lands Improvement For Reducing GPU Work While In Power Savings Mode

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:20

    Stemming from a bug report one month ago with GNOME 51 over high GPU usage while the monitor is sleeping, a set of 17 patches were merged today for addressing this issue...
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      SpacemiT Announces The V100 Server-Class RISC-V Processor

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:46

    Following the interesting SpacemiT K3 RVA23 RISC-V SoC, SpacemiT today announced the V100 server-class RISC-V processor...
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      BeamFS Sent Out As Newest File-System Proposal For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:16

    There is yet-another-Linux-file-system attempt... An initial request for comments (RFC) patch series was sent out this morning for BeamFS. The proposed BeamFS is a Reed-Solomon protected file-system...
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      Linux 7.4 Removing Its Broken & Rarely Touched Code For ARM64 Big Endian

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:01

    The ARM64 code for Linux 7.4 is stripping away its support for big-endian kernel builds for 64-bit ARM...
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      RADV Promotes VK_EXT_host_image_copy To Enabled By Default For RDNA1 GPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:48

    Going back to July 2025 the open-source Radeon RADV Vulkan driver has offered experimental host image copy support with the API's VK_EXT_host_image_copy extension. This has been for RDNA1 and newer GPUs while now GFX10 RDNA 1 GPUs have this extension enabled by default while also enabling experimental support for prior GFX9 era GPUs too...
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      TAINT_FORCED_BIND Sent In For Linux 7.4 To Deal With Major Fuzzing Attack

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:37

    Among the early pull requests sent out in advance of the Linux 7.4 kernel merge window opening were the driver core updates. Standing out here is the new TAINT_FORCED_BIND for dealing with the recent major fuzzing "attack" by AI agents/bots testing impractical driver/hardware combinations...
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      Linux 7.3 Released With Faster I/O Performance, AMD Zen 6 Preparations & More

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    The Linux 7.3 kernel is out today for an on-time release of this next stable kernel version...