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      Amazon Linux 2027 Now in Preview: Powered By Linux 7.1, x86-64-v3 & Built With LTO

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21:13

    AWS announced today the public preview of Amazon Linux 2027. Given the time since Amazon Linux 2023, Amazon Linux 2027 comes with a heavy arsenal of software updates as well as many performance optimizations and other tuning for better running workloads geared for the AWS cloud...
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      Intel Improving Its Content Match Refresh Rate "CMRR" Feature With Linux 7.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17:57

    Introduced with the Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics hardware was support for Content Match Refresh Rate (CMRR) as an improvement over typical Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) / Adaptive-Sync to more precisely match the video or content frame rates. Particularly for video playback it aims for no stuttering or frame drops. With the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel will be better support for CMRR with the Intel graphics driver...
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      Mir 2.29 Released With Additional Wayland Protocols

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17:18

    For those using Canonical's Mir compositor for building Wayland-based shells, Mir 2.29 is now available with various improvements and new Wayland protocol coverage...
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      LLVM Developers Begin Debate Over AGENTS.md For Helping AI Agents

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:45

    LLVM developers have begun a discussion on whether the project should host an AGENTS.md file (and CLAUDE.md) in their Git repository for helping to guide AI agents...
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      21st Revision Of Patches For Getting Linux To Shutdown Devices Asynchronously

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:03

    Being worked on for over two years has been the latest attempt for async device shutdown support for Linux for getting Linux systems -- especially servers with lots of hardware like many NVMe drives -- to shutdown faster. That work is now up to its 21st version as it works toward hopefully making it to the mainline kernel in the not too distant future...
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      NVIDIA Acquiring Hugging Face For $12.93 Billion

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:40

    Following rumors in recent days of NVIDIA courting Hugging Face, it's now been officially announced that NVIDIA is acquiring Hugging Face...
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      Linux 7.3 Now Disabling RandStruct Security Feature By Default If Rust Support Present

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:22

    While Rust programming language use may help with memory safety and other security advantages, the default Linux kernel configuration is now losing randomization of sensitive kernel structures if Rust support is present...
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      Audacity 4.0 Audio Editor Released With Qt6 Based UI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:30

    The longtime Audacity open-source audio editor had been using wxWidgets for years but with today's Audacity 4.0 release they have transitioned to using the Qt6 toolkit...
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      GCC 17 Now Supports Using -mtune=native -mcpu=native On RISC-V

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:20

    As a follow up to last month's article about patches being posted for enabling "-mcpu=native -mtune=native" support for RISC-V with the GCC compiler, that code is now merged for what will become the GCC 17.1 release in the early months of 2027...