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      Intel Mesa Linux Drivers Now Treating Nova Lake S / U / H / HX As Stable

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:44

    Intel's open-source Mesa drivers for Iris Gallium3D (OpenGL) and ANV (Vulkan) on Linux are no longer treating next-gen Nova Lake processors with integrated graphics as experimental and off-by-default. With today's Mesa 26.3-devel code, the Intel driver code across Nova Lake's S, U, H, and HX product families are considered stable and enabled by default...
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      Linux 7.3 Network Changes Merged But Developers "Completely Overwhelmed" Due To AI/LLMs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    All of the networking subsystem feature updates were merged today for the Linux 7.3 kernel's merge window. There are a lot of wired and wireless networking improvements this cycle but also a ton of bug fixes -- including many not so important fixes spun up by AI/LLM agents. The networking subsystem maintainers admit now they are "completely overwhelmed" due to this code churn from the output of AI large language models...
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      Rust 1.98 Adds Algebraic Floating-Point Methods Akin To "-ffast-math"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    Rust 1.98 released today and is headlined the debut of new algebraic floating-point methods...
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      KMSCON 10.0.2 Brings asciicast Playback Support, Bug Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    KMSCON 10.0.2 debuted today as the latest update to this leading user-space terminal emulator for Linux systems. KMSCON is built around Linux's KMS/DRM interfaces and the most viable alternative to date for in-kernel VTs...
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      KDE Software Now Has Stable Btrfs Snapshot Integration With KIO-Snapshot 1.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    With today's release of KIO-Snapshot, KDE software now has stable integration of Btrfs file-system snapshots...
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      Intel Hyper Threading Performance On The Xeon 678X "Granite Rapids-WS"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    With the Intel Xeon 678X "Granite Rapids WS" processor that I have been recently testing within the HP Z4 G6i workstation, there are 48 cores plus with Hyper Threading is a total of 96 threads for this high-end workstation processor with a 300 Watt TDP. For those curious about the performance impact of HT/SMT on this Intel Xeon 600 series workstation processor, here are some comparison benchmarks.
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      FSCRYPT Sees Cleanup With Linux 7.3 To Open Door For More Features Like Btrfs Encryption

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    FSCRYPT is the Linux file-system encryption framework for supporting per-directory, transparent encryption. FSCRYPT so far is used by the likes of EXT4, F2FS, and CephFS. For Linux 7.3 there is an important clean-up to the FSCRYPT code to simplify it while also opening the door for new features moving forward into future kernel versions...
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      Linux Driver Posted For The PreSonus Quantum 2626: A ~$700 Thunderbolt Audio Interface

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 hours ago

    The PreSonus Quantum 2626 is a high-end, Thunderbolt 3 based audio interface. PreSonus just maintains Windows and macOS drivers for this high-end audio interface while now an open-source Linux driver has been posted after being independently developed via reverse engineering...
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      RPM 6.1 Released With Clang Build Fixes, New Release Model

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    RPM 6.1 is out today as the newest feature release for this package management system. With RPM 6.1 comes a number of features and improvements as well as a new release model...