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      Linux 7.3 Adding More Graphics PCI IDs For Intel Nova Lake S

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:26

    In addition to this week's drm-intel-next pull request beginning to lay out the Intel kernel graphics driver changes for Linux 7.3, the first drm-xe-next pull request was sent out on Friday. Intel Nova Lake enablement remains the hot area for the Intel GPU driver code...
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      Linux 7.2-rc2 Raising The Default RISC-V 64-bit CPU Limit To 256 Cores

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:09

    A post merge-window change that landed in Linux Git overnight ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.2-rc2 release is bumping the default limit on the number of supported CPU cores for RISC-V 64-bit. Now by default Linux will support up to 256 cores with RISC-V 64-bit kernel builds...
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      KWin Compositor In KDE Plasma 6.8 Drops Support For Desktop OpenGL

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:52

    Along with releasing Plasma 6.7.2 this week, KDE developers continue to be quite busy working on new features and improvements for the Plasma 6.8 release while also furthering along fixes for future Plasma 6.7 point releases...
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      GNOME Mutter GPU Reset Recovery Becoming A Reality

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:48

    While typically quite rare encountering a GPU reset under Linux in most conditions, currently if encountering one under GNOME your session gets wiped out. But thanks to a Google Summer of Code "GSoC" project this year, GNOME's Mutter compositor is finally seeing real GPU reset recovery handling...
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      GNOME 51 Alpha Released With Numerous Enhancements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    In working toward the stable GNOME 51 desktop release due out in September, today marks the alpha release of GNOME 51...
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      ReactOS Implements First Windows NT6 System Call In Step Toward Vista Compatibility

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    The ReactOS project that is striving to be the "open-source Windows" with Windows driver and software binary compatibility hit another milestone today. ReactOS to date has primarily targeted Windows NT 5.2 as the architecture from Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 but with an eye toward Windows NT 6.0 for Windows Vista and later compatibility with software. ReactOS has now landed their first NT6 system call...
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      Fedora 45 Considering x86_64 Shadow Stack Usage By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    A change proposal under consideration for Fedora Linux 45 would enable x86_64 Shadow Stack usage by default in the name of better security on modern Intel and AMD systems...
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      EFS File-System Slated For Removal With Linux 7.3 After 20+ Years Unmaintained

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    The EFS file-system was used for non-ISO9660 CD-ROMs and disk partitions on SGI IRIX before IRIX 6.0 switched over to XFS. Inside the Linux kernel has been a read-only EFS file-system driver without a maintainer for 20+ years while for Linux 7.3 it's expected to be removed...
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      Linux Kernel Developers Again Discussing AI Agent Attribution - Potentially Dropping It

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    When AI/LLM agents are used in the creation of Linux kernel patches, the policy for a while now has been that it should be specified using an "Assisted-by" tag as part of the patches/commits. But Linux kernel developers this week have been discussing whether to revise that policy or to potentially eliminate it...