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      Memtest86+ v9.00 Released With Support For ARM64 Memory Testing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17:58

    The open-source Memtest86+ program that is popular for RAM testing has expanded beyond the x86/x86_64 (and LoongArch64) world to now support memory testing on ARM64/AArch64 hardware...
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      3mdeb Releases Updated Dasharo/Coreboot Firmware For ASRock Rack SPC741D8-2L2T

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:56

    3mdeb firmware engineers have been quite busy this year working on porting Coreboot and openSIL to an AMD Ryzen AM5 MSI motherboard and similarly getting openSIL and Coreboot up and running on a Gigabyte server motherboard for AMD EPYC 9005 CPUs. They haven't forgotten about their past projects though and today released an updated version of their Dasharo downstream firmware for the ASRock Rack SPC741D8-2L2T motherboard supporting 4th and 5th Gen Xeon Scalable processors...
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      Claude Code / AI Shows Potential For Reverse-Engineering Hardware For Linux Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:29

    AI/LLMs like Claude Code are beginning to prove capable of helping to reverse engineer hardware for Linux support, especially when it comes to the tedious reverse engineering tasks...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 Released With Linux 7.3 + GNOME 51, Rust Coreutils Migration Complete

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:19

    Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" is now officially available as the newest six-month non-LTS update to Ubuntu Linux...
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      Huawei Proposes Enabling CPU Boost By Default For ACPI CPPC Linux Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:24

    For those using the generic ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) CPUFreq driver such as on a number of ARM64 Linux server platforms, if the CPUs support a "boost" mode it's disabled by default. But a patch from Huawei is now looking to enable CPU boost mode by default on Linux...
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      GNOME Mutter Improves Damage Tracking For Secondary GPU Copy Buffers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:12

    As an early improvement to Mutter to look forward to with GNOME 52, the compositor is now tracking damage for secondary GPU copy buffers. This should improve the experience for those with multi-GPU setups such as some hybrid laptops...
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      Microsoft Releases Microsoft Defender For The Linux Desktop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:52

    Microsoft's newest software release for Linux is... Microsoft Defender for the Linux desktop. Microsoft Defender has been ported to Linux to "secure Linux desktops" with Microsoft acknowledging that "more developers begin to use Linux desktops" and thus bringing their security application and threat-protection product to Linux desktops to complement their prior ill-used Linux server support...
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      Framework Computers Triples Their Financial Support To CachyOS

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 hours ago

    In addition to providing Framework systems to the CachyOS Linux distribution for optimizing the support, Framework Computers has also been providing monthly donations to the project. CachyOS confirmed today that Framework Computers has now tripled their monthly donations to this independent Linux distribution built atop Arch Linux...
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      Apple Contributes SSAF Driver To LLVM Clang For Source Code Transformations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Apple compiler engineers have contributed to upstream LLVM/Clang today a Scalable Static Analysis Framework (SSAF) driver for whole-program based analysis and source-to-source code transformations...