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      Linux 7.1 KVM Adds "Very Experimental" Support For pKVM Protected Guests

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19:59

    The Kernel-based Virtual Machine changes were recently merged for the Linux 7.1 merge window for further enhancing KVM as this important piece of the open-source virtualization stack...
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      While New NTFS Driver Merged, NTFS3 Driver Sees Fixes & Minor Changes For Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19:41

    Last week saw the "NTFS resurrection" as Linux Torvalds put it with the new/overhauled NTFS driver having been merged for Linux 7.1. Even still, the NTFS3 driver that was contributed a few years ago by Paragon Software remains in the mainline kernel and today were some fixes/improvements merged for that existing driver...
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      Box64 0.4.2 Begins Working On POWER PPC64LE Backend, Support For SteamRT3 + Proton 11

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17:16

    While FEX-Emu has been garnering a lot of attention due to being sponsored by Valve and slated to be used by the Steam Frame for running Linux x86_64 binaries on AArch64, the Box64 project continues moving along with similar goals for x86_64 binaries on other CPU architectures...
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      Git 2.54 Released With New Experimental "git history" Command

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17:03

    Git developers continue working toward Git 3.0 while out today is Git 2.54 with a few interesting additions...
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      GNU Coreutils 9.11 Brings New Performance Improvements: Up To 15x Faster cat

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:48

    It's not only the uutil's Rust Coreutils project seeing performance improvements but some increased healthy competition now from GNU Coreutils. With today's release of GNU Coreutils 9.11 the wc command is up to multiple times faster and even cat can be up to 15 times faster...
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      Firefox 150 Available With GTK Emoji Picker, CSS Media Element Pseudo-Classes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:34

    Mozilla today published their Firefox 150 release binaries as the latest milestone for this open-source web browser with growing AI ambitions...
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      Intel Compute Runtime Promotes Support For Wildcat Lake, "Early" Crescent Island

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:51

    Out today is the Intel Compute Runtime 26.14.37833.4 that now includes production support for the newly-launched Wildcat Lake cut-down Panther Lake SoCs that debuted last week as the Core Series 3...
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      A Lot Of Memory Management "MM" Improvements Merged For Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:35

    Andrew Morton recently sent out his various "MM" related pull requests for the ongoing Linux 7.1 kernel. There are a number of memory management optimizations in this next kernel version, which is always nice to see but all the more so these days with the inflated RAM pricing and other computer component prices...
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      Popular Rust-Based Database Turns To AI For Up To 1.5x Speedup, Other Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:27

    Redb is one of the open-source, embed-friendly key-value databases written in the Rust programming language. Redb is ACID-compliant while known for being high performance and with its new Redb 4.1 release is even faster thanks to some improvements authored by Claude (AI)...