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      Longtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Steps Down

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:14

    There is a changing of the guard with Linux 7.3 as the maintainer of the Common Internet File System (CIFS) / SMB3 code within the Linux kernel. Longtime maintainer, principal Linux CIFS author, and current Microsoft employee Steve French has stepped down due to health reasons...
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      Specially Crafted NTFS File-System Image Allows Root Access On Linux With NTFS3 Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:42

    A reported security vulnerability for the NTFS3 driver has gone unaddressed since being reported earlier this summer. The vulnerability allows a pre-crafted NTFS image on a USB flash drive or similar to allow the user to gain root access to the running Linux system...
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      AMD RDNA 4m Firmware Published For Linux Ahead Of Launch

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:08

    In addition to AMD's Friday afternoon big code drop of all the UALink enablement patches for the Linux kernel and the AMDGPU driver, there was another big drop from AMD to end out the week... Upstreamed to the linux-firmware.git repository is all the firmware binaries needed by the open-source driver stack for initializing their forthcoming RDNA 4m "GFX 11.7" graphics...
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      NVK Vulkan Video Merged For Mesa 26.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:55

    The newest major feature to land in Mesa's open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver is support for Vulkan Video!..
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      Sched_ext's Sub-Scheduler Support Now "Feature Complete" With Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:43

    The extensible scheduler framework "sched_ext" that allows for custom schedulers as BPF programs has been working on sub-scheduler support in recent kernel cycles. With Linux 7.3, sub-scheduler support is now deemed feature complete...
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      Red Hat's Tuned 2.28 To Improve Out-Of-The-Box WiFi Power Savings On Fedora

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:18

    Tuned 2.28 released this Saturday as the newest version of Red Hat's tuning profile delivery mechanism for Linux. Tuned is used notably out-of-the-box on Fedora Linux for monitoring and adaptively tuning systems...
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      Open-Source Etnaviv Driver Now Able To Run YOLOX

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:06

    The open-source, reverse-engineered Etnaviv driver stack that began for providing accelerated graphics support on Vivante GPU IP and since expanded to handle Vivante NPUs as well is now able to handle YOLOX object detection...
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      Linux 7.3 x86/mm Lands Patches To Greatly Improve Latency-Sensitive Workloads

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:57

    The highlight of this week's x86/mm pull request of changes for the Linux 7.3 kernel are fixes that reduce the time that the TLB flushing code has interrupts disabled. This helps significantly with latency-sensitive workloads but Intel engineer Dave Hansen noted in the pull request that "it's certainly something to keep an eye on" in looking out for any regressions...
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      KDE Plasma 6.8 Lands Some Enticing Performance Optimizations This Week

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1:01

    This Week in Plasma is out with its latest issue to highlight interesting developments in the trek towards Plasma 6.8...