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      AI/LLM Patch Craziness Having An Impact On ARM64 Linux Kernel Development

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:26

    The ongoing rise in AI/LLM-generated patches hitting the mailing lists and affecting development workflows continues to impact Linux kernel development. For the ARM64 architecture updates in Linux 7.2 is an interesting anecdote over over feeling like this activity has "slowed us down a little on the feature side" and having to deal with this AI/LLM patch activity resulted in some features now being postponed from making it for this current Linux kernel development cycle...
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      Bcachefs Tools 1.38.6 Brings Many Performance Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 hours ago

    Kent Overstreet announced the release today of Bcachefs-Tools 1.38.6 as the user-space tools built around the Bcachefs copy-on-write file-system. There are a few new features and a lot of performance work in v1.38.6 without bringing any on-disk format breakage...
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      Linux 7.2 Slab Changes Include More Performance Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 hours ago

    The slab memory allocation changes for Linux 7.2 have been merged and continue to see more work around shaves and performance optimizations...
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      AMD's Lemonade AI Server Now Much More Useful With MCP Server Integration

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 hours ago

    The open-source Lemonade AI server for "100% free and private" AI usage across Windows and Linux in leveraging AMD Ryzen AI NPUs, Radeon GPUs, and x86_64 CPUs, is now much more powerful with today's v10.8 release...
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      Experimental, Reverse-Engineered & AI Assisted Rust Driver Supports Modern DisplayLink

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    The original DisplayLink USB display adapters were great for working with an upstream, open-source driver while sadly the newer DisplayLink tech has been limited to an out-of-tree driver and proprietary user-space daemon. But posted today is an experimental "Vino" driver that is a clean-room, reverse-engineered driver for newer DisplayLink hardware...
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      Epic Games Announces Lore Open-Source Version Control System

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    Epic Games announced today they have created a new version control system that is now open-source as Lore. Given the proliferation and excellence of Git, you may be wondering why Epic Games is pursuing another VCS option... They are specifically catering Lore to games and entertainment purposes with large file sizes...
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      Intel Core Ultra X7 Panther Lake Performance On Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    After recently noting the Intel Arc B580 Battlemage performance improving with Linux 7.1 and similarly finding performance gains for the Arc Pro B70 on Linux 7.1, several Phoronix readers have been wondering whether the newer Xe3 graphics with Panther Lake similarly benefit. Here are some CPU and iGPU benchmarks of the Core Ultra X7 358H "Panther Lake" SoC between Linux 7.0 and the recently stabilized Linux 7.1 kernel.
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      Myna Announced As Speech-To-Text Solution For The Ubuntu Desktop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    Earlier this month plans were shared publicly of Ubuntu 26.10 aiming to build a context-aware desktop with local AI features and one of the first capabilities to be integrated speech-to-text support. Now we have more details on the speech-to-text plans with Canonical announcing the Myna project...
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      Initial AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL Support Successfully Merged For Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display and accelerator driver changes have been merged for Linux 7.2. The Linux 7.2 DRM merge is headlined by the long-awaited HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link (FRL) support for the AMDGPU open-source driver as part of the larger effort of finally proceeding with a full HDMI 2.1 implementation for this AMD Radeon Linux driver...