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KDE Merges Per-Screen Virtual Desktops After 21 Years

Phoronix - Tue, 04/14/2026 - 18:24
A request made a KDE user all the way back in June 2005 on KDE 3.3.2 is finally resolved. After being sought after for 21 years, the latest KWin code now has support for per-screen virtual desktops...

AMD Ready With CPPC Performance Priority & Dynamic/Raw EPP In Linux 7.1

Phoronix - Tue, 04/14/2026 - 18:10
All of the power management subsystem feature updates have been merged for the Linux 7.1 kernel...

BeOS-Inspired Haiku OS Gets ARM64 Port Booting

Phoronix - Tue, 04/14/2026 - 17:57
Over the course of March there was much progress made on the ARM64 port of Haiku OS, the open-source operating system serving as the spiritual successor to BeOS...

Linux 7.1 Lands ARM64 NEON-Accelerated CRC64-NVMe For ~6x Improvement

Phoronix - Tue, 04/14/2026 - 17:50
Merged yesterday were all the CRC code updates for the Linux 7.1 kernel. Most notable with that pull is an ARM64-optimized CRC64-NVMe implementation that can deliver multiple times faster performance...

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