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      Star Labs StarFighter Ultra: A Modern High-End Linux Laptop With Coreboot

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:00

    When it comes to Linux pre-loaded laptops, I have looked at hardware from most of these vendors over the past 22+ years of Phoronix. One vendor I haven't had the chance to personally test until now is the UK-based Star Labs. That changed recently and over the past few weeks I have been testing out their new StarFighter laptop that offers great Linux support and comes pre-loaded with Coreboot and streamlined firmware updates via LVFS. For those after a high-end mobile workstation, the Star Labs StarFighter offers a lot of performance potential while being open-source friendly and with Coreboot in tow.
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      NVIDIA 615.78.08 Linux Driver Adds VK_NV_low_latency2 r3 For Improved VKD3D-Proton

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:45

    NVIDIA today released their 615.78.08 Linux driver build with a useful improvement for gamers using Steam Play (Proton) with Direct3D 12 games via VKD3D-Proton along with a variety of other fixes...
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      Kage: Google Experimenting With Linux Driver Isolation Using In-Kernel LFI Sandboxes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:50

    Google engineers are experimenting with Linux kernel device driver isolation using in-kernel sandboxes leveraging LLVM's Lightweight Fault Isolation (LFI) functionality...
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      Qualcomm Posts QPaCE Linux Driver Code For Faster ZRAM On Newest SoCs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:21

    Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 "Hawi" SoC features the Qualcomm Page Compression Engine "QPaCE" hardware accelerator. Linux patches posted recently provide a QPaCE driver for accelerating page compression and decompression for the ZRAM block device...
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      XMFS: Experimental File-System Being Worked On By Huawei For Modern Linux Servers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:20

    Huawei engineers are experimenting with a new file-system called XMFS. XMFS was presented this week at LPC 2026 in Czechia as a file-system for modern Linux servers with CXL 3.0 or Huawei United Bus connectivity...
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      Microsoft Updates Its WSL2 Linux Kernel With DXGKRNL Improvement, More Features Enabled

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:57

    Following the Windows Subsystem for Linux 3.0.2 release with support for running WSL2 now on very large servers and also experimental sparse VHD storage support, Microsoft has now released a new version of the WSL2 Linux kernel as their downstream kernel configuration tailored for WSL2 usage...
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      AMD Engineer Talks Up New IBS Memory Profiler Feature Found On Zen 6

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:47

    One of the AMD Zen 6 CPU features that hasn't been talked about too widely beyond appearing in a public AMD tech doc is the IBS Memory Profiler. This week in Prague at LPC 2026 an AMD engineer talked up Zen 6's IBS Memory Profiler and its benefits for hot page detection and promotion on Linux systems...
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      Another Dozen Vulnerabilities Found In The X.Org Server & XWayland

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1:31

    With the assistance of AI, another dozen security vulnerabilities affecting both the conventional X.Org Server as well as XWayland were made public this evening...
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      New Patches For Linux's Zswap Show Major Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:56

    Amid multiple ongoing innovations being pursued in the Linux memory management space amid sky high RAM prices, a new patch series posted on Monday aim to enhance the Zswap performance for this compressed RAM cache for swap pages...