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      FreeBSD 15.1 Released With Updated WiFi Drivers, Better C23 Support & Other Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:56

    After some last minute delays pushing the 15.1-RELEASE back by two weeks, FreeBSD 15.1 is now shipping as the newest stable release of this BSD operating system...
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      Linux 7.2 Optimization Shows +5% IOPS For EXT4 & XFS After Moving Around Two Lines Of Code

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:40

    In addition to the surprising impact of /proc/filesystems read optimizations for Linux 7.2, another one of the VFS pull requests for this next kernel version is delivering some nice improvements for EXT4 and XFS around IOmap, the framework that maps file data offsets in memory to their physical locations on storage...
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      Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 Beta Now Properly Handles Notches & Rounded Corners

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 hours ago

    The community of developers continuing to maintain Ubuntu Touch for smartphones has released the Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 beta ahead of the planned stable release in mid-July...
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      Intel Performance Skills: New Open-Source Project Leveraging AI For Linux Performance Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 hours ago

    The newest open-source project out of Intel is the Intel Performance Skills project that is providing AI agent skills to help with CPU performance analysis and performance optimizations on Linux...
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      FreeBSD Receives Funding To Launch AI-Assisted Vulnerability Discovery

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    The FreeBSD Project announced today the launch of an AI-Assisted Vulnerability Discovery Project with grant funding provided by the Linux Foundation backed Alpha-Omega project. Alpha-Mega has sponsors including Microsoft, AWS, Google, Anthrophic, OpenAI, and others who will now be helping with FreeBSD uncovering new vulnerabilities by leveraging AI...
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      GCC Steering Committee Supports Inclusion Of WebAssembly Backend

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    Last month a new GCC back-end was proposed for WebAssembly to allow C/C++ code to be compiled to WASM with this GNU compiler toolchain. The GCC Steering Committee has evaluated it and approves the notion of WebAssembly back-end for GCC...
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      Russian Spam & Profanities Are Now Plaguing The Arch Linux AUR

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    After days of dealing with 1,500+ packages in the Arch Linux AUR containing malware, the latest headache in the Arch Linux User Repository is Russian spam and offensive messages...
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      Firefox 152 Now Available With JPEG-XL Support Built By Default, Modernized Settings UI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    The Firefox 152.0 release binaries are now available ahead of tomorrow's official unveiling. With Firefox 152 there is now the JPEG-XL support code being compiled by default for the release albeit still disabled at run-time by default behind a preference for now...
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      Reading /proc/filesystems Is Surprisingly Done Very Often & Now As Much As 444% Faster

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    Reading /proc/filesystems for obtaining a list of file-systems supported by the running kernel is done frequently on Linux. Namely due to being read by the SELinux library (libselinux), reading of /proc/filesystems is done more often than one would typically expect and now the Linux 7.2 kernel is optimizing for it to yield much better performance...