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      Framework Laptop 13 Pro: Aiming To Be One Of The Best Upgradeable Linux Laptops

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:00

    Back in April, Framework Computer announced the Framework Laptop 13 Pro as a ground-up re-design of their modular/upgradeable laptop. This new Framework Laptop 13 Pro features a much larger battery (74Wh), LPCAMM2 memory support, a full CNC aluminum chassis, haptic touchpad, and a new power-optimized touch display. Paired with the very efficient Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" SoCs, the Framework Laptop 13 Pro ends up being an incredible offering from the hardware perspective.
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      Ubuntu To Provide Virtualization HWE Stack For Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:32

    Ubuntu has long provided hardware enablement "HWE" stacks for Ubuntu LTS releases to provide a newer kernel and Mesa drivers and more for better supporting new/modern hardware on the long-term support Ubuntu Linux releases. With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Canonical will also now be providing a virtualization HWE stack for shipping newer virtualization / confidential computing features...
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      AMD "Low Power" CPU Core Type Patches Queued Ahead Of Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:35

    Last month I wrote bout new AMD Linux patches introducing a new "low power" CPU core type as an alternative to their standard performance cores and dense efficiency cores. That work now is poised to land with the upcoming Linux 7.3 kernel...
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      Wayfire Wayland Compositor Closing In On v1.0 Release

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:10

    The Wayfire modular and extensible Wayland compositor formally used by default on Raspberry Pi SBCs is nearing its v1.0 release. Wayfire 0.11 was released on Sunday for this Compiz-inspired, wlroots-powered compositor with that being their hopeful last planned version before Wayfire 1.0 releases...
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      FreeBSD Developing New NTSYNC Driver For Accelerating Windows NT Sync Primitives

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:03

    The FreeBSD project published today their Q2-2026 status report that highlights all of their interesting open-source development initiatives for the past quarter. A lot is happening including FreeBSD seeing an AMD ROCm port and also their own NTSYNC driver being created...
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      NVIDIA & Others Form The Open Secure AI Alliance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:45

    NVIDIA and more than two dozen other companies have started the Open Secure AI Alliance for helping to keep open-source AI models secure. The other founding members range from Microsoft to Adobe, IBM, Red Hat, SpaceX, OpenClaw, Palantir, and others...
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      Linux 7.2-rc5 Released: "Once More We Have Quite A Massive -rc5"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    In working toward releasing the stable Linux 7.2 kernel in less than one month's time, out today is Linux 7.2-rc5 to ship this week's latest bug/regression fixes and help facilitate more testing of this in-development kernel version...
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      GNU Binutils 2.47 Released With More RISC-V Extensions, New Options

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    Along with this weekend's release of GNU C Library 2.44, the GNU Binutils 2.47 release is also now available for this important set of binary utilities common to Linux systems and other platforms with the GNU toolchain...
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      "KVM Chainsaw" Expected To Hit Linux 7.3 For Dealing With God Data Structure

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    A patch series that appears destined for the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window is what's dubbed the "KVM Chainsaw" as a major code clean-up in dealing with the kvm_mmu "god data structure"...