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      Rolling Release Distros Superior To LTS Distros In The Patch-Heavy GenAI Era?

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:27

    As some interesting food for thought and weekend forum discussions, this week at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague, Qualcomm engineer Khem Raj questioned the relevance of Linux Long Term Support (LTS) distributions in the era of generative AI with the constantly heavy patch flow and bug reports. Khem Raj argued the benefits of rolling release distributions in the GenAI era and the benefits it provides staying up-to-date with mainline...
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      Many Laptop & Gaming Handheld Support Improvements Coming For Linux 7.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:40

    Many x86 platform driver improvements have been queuing ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.4 merge window to offer a variety of laptop and gaming handheld device improvements with this next kernel version...
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      KNOD Progressing For Linux In-Kernel GPU Offloading For Network Packet Processing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:25

    A while back we covered KNOD as an experimental solution for in-kernel network offloading to AMD GPUs. The open-source KNOD project allows leveraging GPUs to handle packet processing in a very performant and energy efficient manner without needing any specialized hardware. KNOD has continued and a development update was shared this week at the Linux Plumbers Conference in Prague...
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      Linux Networking Diverts 50+ Fixes To Next Kernel, Still Bombarded With AI Fueled Churn

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:11

    Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc7 kernel due for release on Sunday, this week's batch of networking fixes were submitted and merged. The vast networking subsystem of wired and wireless drivers plus the various other networking features continues to see a lot of activity due to AI-driven bug reports and patches...
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      KDE Plasma 6.8 Ready For Release Next Week, Sees Last Minute NVIDIA Fix

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:00

    KDE Plasma 6.8 is gearing up for its official debut next week in coinciding with the 30th anniversary since the KDE project began...
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      SQLite 3.54 Released With Faster Performance, Drops Windows XP Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:41

    SQLite 3.54 released today for this wildly popular embedded SQL database engine used by countless applications and other software. With SQLite 3.54, support for Microsoft Windows XP and older is finally removed...
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      Valve's Proton 11.0-2e Released To Fix EA App Issues

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    CodeWeavers working with Valve today released Proton 11.0-2e as their downstream of Wine that powers Steam Play for enjoying Windows games on Linux...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 To Include Desktop Images For RISC-V

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Ubuntu Linux ISOs for RISC-V 64-bit to date have just been the server/CLI version without any desktop environment pre-seeded. But with next week's Ubuntu 26.10 release, there will now be Ubuntu 26.10 RISC-V desktop ISOs for both Ubuntu proper and a Xubuntu minimal ISO...
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      Python 3.15 Released With Experimental JIT Compiler Running Faster

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Python 3.15 is out today as the newest annual feature release for the Python programming language...