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      Linux Dealing With Apple's Wild Mess Of Sensors On Apple Silicon SoCs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:31

    While there has been the Apple System Management Controller "SMC" hardware monitoring driver with the intent on exposing battery/power stats as well as thermal and more for Apple Silicon SoCs on Linux, it hasn't yet been working out properly on the mainline kernel. Between missing Device Tree nodes to the hodgepodge mess of sensors between the different Apple M-Series SoCs, it's a mess...
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      Haiku Merges NVMM For Initial Virtualization Support, But It Doesn't Yet Fully Work

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:11

    The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project has published their June 2026 status report. In the past month the developers merged their NVMM VM monitor support, hardware driver improvements, and progressed toward the upcoming Haiku sixth beta release...
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      "Light" GRUB Alternative Package For Confidential Computing Approved For Fedora 45

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:51

    A month ago there was a change proposal raised for offering a "light" version of the GRUB2 bootloader for use in confidential computing environments. While there were some differing views on the matter for this alternative, stripped-down GRUB package as opposed to just using other bootloaders like systemd-boot, ultimately, the proposal is now approved...
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      Weston 16.0 Compositor Released With HDR Improvements, Vulkan Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:40

    Overnight the Weston 16.0 release occurred as the latest milestone for this reference Wayland compositor...
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      New Linux Patches Aim To Better Handle Multiple Swap Devices

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:38

    For those having Linux systems with multiple swap devices, such as for swap tiering or layered swap handling, a set of patches posted today for the Linux kernel are looking to improve the situation...
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      Graviton5 Outperforming Intel Xeon Granite Rapids But Falls Short Of AMD EPYC Turin

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    Following the recent GA of the AWS M9g series as the first instances powered by the new Graviton5 CPUs, I recently ran benchmarks looking at Graviton4 vs. Graviton5 CPU performance. There was very nice generational gains for the new AWS Graviton processors with the shift from Arm Neoverse-V2 to Neoverse-V3 cores and from DDR5-5600 to DDR5-8800 memory, among other improvements. For those wondering how the Graviton5 ARM server processors compare to AMD EPYC and Intel Xeon, here are some additional comparison data points from the Amazon EC2 cloud.
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      FreeBSD Desktop Installer Option Working Through NVIDIA Driver Handling, Licensing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    Alfonso Siciliano, who has been one of the FreeBSD developers leading the effort on adding a KDE-based desktop option to the FreeBSD installer, provided an update on recent work around adding integrating this desktop option...
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      GNOME OS Creating "Test Center" As Its Take On Apple TestFlight For Experiment Software

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    GNOME developers working on GNOME OS have received funding from Germany's Prototype Fund to work on creating the GNOME OS "Developer Tool Suite" or also tentatively called their "Test Center" to help in testing experimental applications/libraries in a modern Linux computing world with systemd-sysext, Buildstream, and other newer tech...
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      Reworked System Call Entry Handling Slated For Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Stemming from looking at a proposed Linux kernel patch to alter the Linux kernel's system call number handling, veteran Linux kernel developer Thomas Gleixner went down a rabbit hole of the kernel's system call entry handling to make a number of clean-ups and improvements to the code. That rework to the system call entry handling is now expected to land for the Linux 7.3 kernel cycle...