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      Linux's Second-In-Command Turns To New Fuzzing Tools For Uncovering Kernel Bugs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:50

    Greg Kroah-Hartman, the main Linux stable kernel maintainer and typically viewed as the second-in-command to the Linux kernel development, has turned to new "gregkh_clanker_t1000" fuzzing tooling to help uncover new kernel bugs...
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      Framework Reports More Memory Cost Increases, Some Good News For Framework 16

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:57

    Framework Computer on Monday issued their latest update concerning the ongoing price increases for memory and solid state drives affecting the industry. There has been some more price increases, signs of some temporary reprieve, and then a bit of good news on pricing for select Framework hardware...
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      AMD ISP4 Driver On Track To Be Merged For Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:30

    It looks like with the Linux 7.2 kernel later in the year the AMD ISP4 driver will finally be merged to mainline. This driver is needed for the web camera on the HP ZBook Ultra G1a Strix Halo laptop and other future AMD Ryzen laptops...
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      RISC-V XIP Linux Feature Being Removed After It Keeps Breaking For Months At A Time

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:19

    Introduced in Linux 5.13 back in 2021 was eXecute In Place "XIP" support for RISC-V that allows for the kernel image to be executed from ROM. The intent is on allowing the kernel to run from non-volatile storage like NOR flash that is directly addressable by the CPU and to reduce RAM usage. But after RISC-V XIP support is broken for months at a time, the feature is now set to be retired from the mainline kernel...
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      Mesa Granted Permanent Updates Exception For Fedora Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:09

    It doesn't change too much in practice with how Mesa updates typically have been handled under Fedora Linux, but now it's officially documented: Mesa graphics drivers have a permanent updates exception so new Mesa versions can be shipped as updates in Fedora stable releases...
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      Lemonade 10.1 Released For Latest Improvements For Local LLMs On AMD GPUs & NPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:59

    Following last month's Lemonade SDK 10.0 release that finally makes AMD Ryzen AI NPUs under Linux useful for running large language models (LLMs) where as before the Linux build could only target GPUs, released on Monday was Lemonade 10.1 with more enhancements to this local LLM solution...
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      Mesa Developers Decide On Two Gen AI Policies For Development Moving Forward

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    Building on prior Mesa contributor guidelines and discussions among upstream Mesa developers, there are two generative AI "GenAI" policies that have now been decided upon for Mesa development moving forward...
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      Rust Coreutils 0.8 Brings Significant Performance Gains

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    Rust Coreutils 0.8 was released today as the newest major release to this alternative to GNU Coreutils...
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      FreeBSD Aims To Better Track Laptop Hardware That Works Or Doesn't For Their OS

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    Over the past year the FreeBSD project has been making much progress on making it more viable to run this BSD operating system on laptop hardware. They have worked on better graphics driver support, improved power management / suspend, making sure audio is working, and even rolling out a KDE desktop option from the FreeBSD OS installer to ease the deployment on desktops. While that engineering work continues, they are also working now to make it easier to summarize laptop hardware working or not on FreeBSD...