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      Ubuntu 26.10 Planning To Ship With The Linux 7.2 Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17:05

    Canonical's kernel team confirmed today their intention of shipping the Ubuntu 26.10 release with what will be the Linux 7.2 kernel...
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      VKD3D-Proton Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:58

    Valve's VKD3D-Proton component to Steam Play (Proton) for Direct3D 12 implemented over the Vulkan API has landed its descriptor heap (VK_EXT_descriptor_heap) support as a big step forward...
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      Cache Aware Scheduling Shows Nice Wins For AMD Zen 5 On PostgreSQL, Valkey, Network Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:40

    The long-in-development work on Cache Aware Scheduling looks like it will come to a head soon with it looking like Cache Aware Scheduling will land for Linux 7.2. Ahead of the upcoming merge window I ran some fresh benchmarks looking at different areas where this feature is shining.
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      Linux Developers Looking At Retiring The x32 ABI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:53

    The Linux x32 ABI for x86_64 processors allow making use of the full 64-bit register file and wide data path but retaining 32-bit pointers to provide for a smaller memory footprint when not needing 64-bit pointers. Linux x32 came to the party late and didn't enjoy much adoption over the years and is now looking at possible removal from the Linux kernel...
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      Linux Driver To Expose Voltage Inputs For Raspberry Pi SBCs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:15

    The Raspberry Pi hardware monitoring driver "RASPBERRYPI-HWMON" is being extended to allow exposing voltage measurements on these ARM single board computers...
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      Intel TDX Runtime Updates Looks Like It Will Land For Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:07

    A feature that has been worked on for a while now by Intel Linux engineers is for allowing run-time updates of the Trusted Domain Extensions (TDX) module without having to reboot the running server. For Linux 7.2 it looks like that feature will be all-set for allowing the easier roll-out of security updates and the like for this confidential computing capability on modern Intel Xeon servers...
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      Canonical Releases Workshop As New Way Of Launching Development Environments

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:56

    Ubuntu maker Canonical announced today the release of Workshop as their new Snap-based application for launching development environments with ease...
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      ReactOS Now Running On ARM64 In Experimental Form

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:54

    ReactOS as the "open-source Windows" project working to implement binary compatibility for computer programs and drivers for Microsoft Windows now has experimental support for running on 64-bit ARM...
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      Google's ANGLE Merges Wayland Support, Unblocking Chromium Embedded Framework On Wayland

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    It looks like Google's Chromium Embedded Framework "CEF" could finally be enjoying nice native Wayland support soon!..