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      Linux 7.2 Released With Faster I/O, New AMD & Intel Driver Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 hours ago

    Linus Torvalds just released Linux 7.2 as stable! After a very busy kernel cycle due to the increased patch and reporting churn due to AI/LLM ages, Linux 7.2 managed to make it out today on-schedule for this feature-packed kernel. Linux 7.2 is going on to power Ubuntu 26.10 and other upcoming Linux distribution releases...
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      GIMP Making Progress On New Project File Format After Nearly 30 Years With XCF

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 hours ago

    The GIMP project has published their latest development update to highlight the interesting work that's ongoing toward GIMP 3.4 and future releases...
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      tlbi= Boot Option Submitted Ahead Of Linux 7.2 Kernel Release

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    Ahead of the Linux 7.2 kernel stable release expected to occur in the coming hours, a last minute "x86/urgent" pull request was submitted with one patch for adding the new tlbi= boot option...
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      Debian Marks 33rd Birthday As One Of The Oldest Maintained Linux Distros

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    Today marks thirty three years since the Debian Linux distribution was started by the late Ian Murdock...
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      AVX-512 xor_gen Continues To Look Exciting For Helping Linux RAID With Modern CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    Google engineer Eric Biggers back in June posted an AVX-512 optimization for Linux RAID yielding up to a 41% improvement on a modern AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (Zen 5) processor. A revised patch then put it as much as a 43% improvement for this AVX-512 optimized xor_gen() function. The code hasn't yet been merged to mainline but an updated version of it is now available...
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      Linux 7.3 binfmt_misc To Allow BPF Programs To Dynamically Choose Execution Environments

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    The Linux kernel's binfmt_misc functionality allows non-native/custom files to ne run directly such as for Windows EXE files to be handled by Wine or JAR files to be handled by the Java runtime. For the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window, the miscellaneous binary formats support is being extended so a binary type can be matched programmatically and the interpreter determined on a per-exec basis. BPF programs can also then be attached to dynamically choosing an execution environment on a per-binary basis...
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      New Linux Driver Enables 12VHPWR Monitoring For ASUS ROG Astral Graphics Cards

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    For those concerned about current imbalance or voltage changes with the 12VHPWR power connectors and having an ASUS ROG Astral graphics card, there is now an open-source driver for Linux available that integrates with the hardware monitoring (HWMON) subsystem for 12VHPWR reporting on these ASUS graphics cards...
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      Marek Olšák's 19 Latest Patches Further Optimizing RADV & ACO

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Legendary Mesa Radeon Gallium3D driver developer Marek Olšák who was a longtime AMD employee and then joined Valve's Linux graphics driver team earlier this year has continued his focus now on perfecting his art around the RADV Vulkan driver and ACO shader compiler...
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      AMD GAIA 0.23 Delivers Ability To Install/Run AI Agents From The Terminal

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 days ago

    AMD's GAIA open-source AI software built atop Lemonade for serving as an AI companion for emails, a Bash coding agent, and other AI agent skills is out with a new version today with more features while also improving security and making other improvements...