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      Intel Working On pmtctl Tool For Linux In Dealing With Platform Telemetry Data

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:55

    A set if 17 patches were posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list for introducing a new tool in the kernel source tree, pmtctl. This new pmtctl tool is for interfacing with Intel Platform Monitoring Technology...
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      Btrfs Preps Huge Folios Support Ahead Of Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:43

    The past few Linux kernel cycles there has been experimental support for large folios with Btrfs while for Linux 7.2 it looks like this modern file-system will be taking things further with huge folios...
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      Labwc 0.20 Wayland Compositor Released With Numerous New Features

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:22

    In addition to the release today of Sway 1.12 for that i3-inspired Wayland compositor, Labwc 0.20 is also out today as another wlroots-based Wayland compositor...
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      Sway 1.12 Released With HDR Support On Vulkan Renderer, New Protocols

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    Sway 1.12 is out today as the newest feature release of this i3-inspired Wayland compositor powered by the wlroots library...
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      RADV Driver Lands Support For VK_KHR_shader_fma

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    Merged today for what will become Mesa 26.2 next quarter is the Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" now supporting the VK_KHR_shader_fma extension...
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      Intel Introducing USB4STREAM Protocol For Linux - Opening Up Some Nifty Uses For USB4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    An exciting Intel innovation expected to be added for the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is introducing the new USB4STREAM protocol for USB4/Thunderbolt as a "super simple" way to "basically just transfer raw packets from one host to another". This can be useful for quickly backing up a system from one host to another, sharing of web cameras or other peripherals across systems, or other environments where not having networking or wanting to avoid the traditional Linux networking stack...
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      Linux To Drop ARCnet Support For Old ISA & PCMCIA Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    With Linux 7.1 ISDN, ham radio, and other old network code was removed in lightening the kernel source tree by around 138 thousand lines of code. Some additional Linux networking code cleaning is expected for Linux 7.2 with the ISA and PCMCIA hardware around ARCnet set to be removed...
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      Redis 8.8 Released With New Array Data Structure, More Performance Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Redis 8.8 reached GA today for the Redis open-source project providing a high performance, in-memory data store...
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      California's Age Verification Law May End Up Exempting Most Linux Distributions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    While not as good as repealing AB 1043 outright for requiring operating system providers to ask for a user's age or birth date at device setup, open-source Linux distributions and other open-source OSes may end up seeing some reprieve before this law goes into effect at the start of 2027...