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Linux 7.2 Power Management Adds New Hardware Support While Dropping AMD Elan

Phoronix - 2 hours 14 min ago
The power management changes merged for the Linux 7.2 kernel are aplenty as usual. New hardware support, dropping obsolete hardware support, and various bug fixes and other enhancements throughout this important area of the kernel...

KDE Plasma 6.7 Released With Per-Screen Virtual Desktops, Wayland Improvements

Phoronix - 2 hours 45 min ago
Today's the day! KDE developers have just released Plasma 6.7 as the newest version of this leading open-source desktop environment...

Linux 7.2 Drops Driver For The 40+ Year Old Hercules Monochrome ISA Graphics Card

Phoronix - 2 hours 48 min ago
After Linux 7.1 dropped support for old i486 CPUs and also began removing some old ISA and PCMCIA device drivers, there is some additional old hardware relics being cleared out of the in-development Linux 7.2 driver... The frame-buffer device driver for the old Hercules Monochrome ISA graphics card is now removed from the Linux kernel after decades at play...

Linux 7.2 Optimization Shows +5% IOPS For EXT4 & XFS After Moving Around Two Lines Of Code

Phoronix - 11 hours 31 min ago
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...

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

Phoronix - 11 hours 37 min ago
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...

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-2.0 Beta Now Properly Handles Notches & Rounded Corners

Phoronix - 15 hours 11 min 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...

Intel Performance Skills: New Open-Source Project Leveraging AI For Linux Performance Optimizations

Phoronix - 16 hours 18 min 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...

FreeBSD Receives Funding To Launch AI-Assisted Vulnerability Discovery

Phoronix - 17 hours 25 min 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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