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      RADV Driver Lands Support For VK_KHR_shader_fma

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:12

    Merged today for what will become Mesa 26.2 next quarter is the Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" now supporting the VK_KHR_shader_fma extension...
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      Intel Introducing USB4STREAM Protocol For Linux - Opening Up Some Nifty Uses For USB4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:46

    An exciting Intel innovation expected to be added for the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is introducing the new USB4STREAM protocol for USB4/Thunderbolt as a "super simple" way to "basically just transfer raw packets from one host to another". This can be useful for quickly backing up a system from one host to another, sharing of web cameras or other peripherals across systems, or other environments where not having networking or wanting to avoid the traditional Linux networking stack...
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      Linux To Drop ARCnet Support For Old ISA & PCMCIA Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:20

    With Linux 7.1 ISDN, ham radio, and other old network code was removed in lightening the kernel source tree by around 138 thousand lines of code. Some additional Linux networking code cleaning is expected for Linux 7.2 with the ISA and PCMCIA hardware around ARCnet set to be removed...
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      Redis 8.8 Released With New Array Data Structure, More Performance Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:05

    Redis 8.8 reached GA today for the Redis open-source project providing a high performance, in-memory data store...
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      California's Age Verification Law May End Up Exempting Most Linux Distributions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:58

    While not as good as repealing AB 1043 outright for requiring operating system providers to ask for a user's age or birth date at device setup, open-source Linux distributions and other open-source OSes may end up seeing some reprieve before this law goes into effect at the start of 2027...
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      Linux 7.1-rc5 Released With Fixes Ramping Up From AI Coding Agents

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 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 • 22 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 • 1 day 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 • 1 day 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...