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      Linux 7.2 Continues Removing Old i486 Code Remnants, Adds Rugged Panther Lake

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:25

    The x86/cpu changes have been merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel with an interesting span of changes covering 36 years from the Intel 486 days up to adding the new "rugged" Panther Lake variant...
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      XFS Zone Allocator No Longer Experimental With Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:38

    The XFS file-system updates for the Linux 7.2 kernel aren't too notable with the exception of its zone allocator being promoted from behind its previously-experimental flag...
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      Linux 7.2 Power Management Adds New Hardware Support While Dropping AMD Elan

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:18

    The power management changes merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel are aplenty as usual. New hardware support, dropping obsolete hardware support, and various bug fixes and other enhancements throughout this important area of the kernel...
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      KDE Plasma 6.7 Released With Per-Screen Virtual Desktops, Wayland Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:48

    Today's the day! KDE developers have just released Plasma 6.7 as the newest version of this leading open-source desktop environment...
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      FreeBSD 15.1 Released With Updated WiFi Drivers, Better C23 Support & Other Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:56

    After some last minute delays pushing the 15.1-RELEASE back by two weeks, FreeBSD 15.1 is now shipping as the newest stable release of this BSD operating system...
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      Linux 7.2 Optimization Shows +5% IOPS For EXT4 & XFS After Moving Around Two Lines Of Code

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:40

    In addition to the surprising impact of /proc/filesystems read optimizations for Linux 7.2, another one of the VFS pull requests for this next kernel version is delivering some nice improvements for EXT4 and XFS around IOmap, the framework that maps file data offsets in memory to their physical locations on storage...
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      Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 Beta Now Properly Handles Notches & Rounded Corners

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    The community of developers continuing to maintain Ubuntu Touch for smartphones has released the Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 beta ahead of the planned stable release in mid-July...
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      Intel Performance Skills: New Open-Source Project Leveraging AI For Linux Performance Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    The newest open-source project out of Intel is the Intel Performance Skills project that is providing AI agent skills to help with CPU performance analysis and performance optimizations on Linux...
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      FreeBSD Receives Funding To Launch AI-Assisted Vulnerability Discovery

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    The FreeBSD Project announced today the launch of an AI-Assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project with grant funding provided by the Linux Foundation backed Alpha-Omega project. Alpha-Mega has sponsors including Microsoft, AWS, Google, Anthrophic, OpenAI, and others who will now be helping with FreeBSD uncovering new vulnerabilities by leveraging AI...