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      Linux 7.1-rc5 Released With Fixes Ramping Up From AI Coding Agents

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 hours ago

    In the road to releasing Linux 7.1 in June, out today is Linux 7.1-rc5 that continues coming on heavy with fixes...
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      GitHub Copilot & Claude Code Helped With Graphics, WiFi Linux Driver Issues This Week

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 hours ago

    For those curious about the growing use of AI and coding agents within the Linux kernel, this week there was another large batch of new patches fixed that were generated or co-authored by agents like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot...
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      FreeBSD Foundation Executive Director Tries Daily Driving FreeBSD On Laptop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    With FreeBSD having worked on improving its laptop support over the past two years with some big changes and ongoing efforts for making a nice KDE desktop experience on FreeBSD, FreeBSD Foundation's Executive Director has been trying to daily drive FreeBSD on laptops...
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      Linux To Remove ISA Speech Synthesizer Driver That Likely Hasn't Been Used In Decades

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    Following the process of phasing out Intel 486 CPU support and other old hardware drivers that were dropped in the Linux 7.1 kernel cycle for reducing the kernel maintenance burden, the upcoming Linux 7.2 cycle is continuing the trend of phasing out some of the old hardware support that is very obsolete, likely having no users on the latest upstream kernels, and no one formally maintaining the obsolete drivers...
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      KernelScript: A Programming Language For Kernel Customization & App Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    Multikernel Technologies Inc has been working on a multi-kernel architecture for the Linux kernel while in addition to that they have been developing KernelScript as a domain-specific language for carrying out Linux kernel customizations and app-specific optimizations...
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      Boot-Time Wizard Aims To Help Reduce Linux Boot Times

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    While in the past decade or so Linux desktop/laptop users likely have little to complain about boot times and there hasn't been much emphasis around trying to make boot times even faster on the Linux desktop especially in an era where many systems are always-on and suspend/resume working more reliably these days, boot times are still an important factor in the embedded Linux world. Boot-Time Wizard is one of the new efforts aiming to help embedded Linux makers cut-down on their boot times...
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      Rust-Based Wild Linker 0.9 Brings New Platform Coverage, Linker Plugin API

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Wild Linker 0.9 was released today as the latest version of this very fast linker for Linux systems that is written in the Rust programming language...
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      Linux Mint Making Improvements To Its File Manager, Theme & Dialogs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    The Linux Mint project today published their May 2026 status report to outline recent work done to this Ubuntu/Debian-based Linux platform and much of their focus in recent weeks on enhancements to their Cinnamon desktop environment...
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      Intel's Latest Round Of Open-Source Projects Ended: OBS Studio Plugin, CVE Binary Tool & More

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    With Intel having been one of the most dominant open-source contributors for years across the software ecosystem, months after they began sunsetting various software projects no longer aligned with today's Intel, they continue formally sunsetting/archiving different open-source projects...