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Mediatek MT7902 WiFi Finally Seeing Open-Source Linux Driver Activity

Phoronix - Thu, 02/19/2026 - 22:03
When searching for "MT7902" and "Linux" there is no shortage of users asking about Linux driver support for the Mediatek MT7902 WiFi chipset or users complaining about their MT7902 WiFi not working under Linux with that chipset found in numerous laptops in recent years. Fortunately, there is finally Linux driver support for the MT7902 surfacing for review on the Linux kernel mailing list...

Weston 15.0 Wayland Compositor Released With Vulkan Renderer, New Protocols

Phoronix - Thu, 02/19/2026 - 19:23
After delays, Weston 15.0 shipped this morning as the latest feature release to this reference Wayland compositor. Weston 15.0 comes in heavy on new features - including a Vulkan renderer in experimental form...

Linux 7.0 Speeds Up Reclaiming File-Backed Large Folios By 50~75%

Phoronix - Thu, 02/19/2026 - 19:15
Merged on Wednesday were some additional memory management "MM" updates for the Linux 7.0 merge window. Most interesting out of these latest three dozen patches is support for batched unmapping of file-backed large folios...

Simdjson Shows More Speed-Ups Possible For SIMD In JSON Parsing: Another 30% Boost

Phoronix - Thu, 02/19/2026 - 19:05
Simdjson is the open-source project for high performance JSON parsing by leveraging SIMD instructions for "parsing gigabytes of JSON per second." Notably it showed years ago the huge performance advantage to using AVX-512 in JSON parsing for surprisingly big benefits. Simdjson has continued advancing since then with various optimizations over the years and today is out with simdjson 4.3 that brings yet more SIMD optimizations...

PipeWire 1.6 Released With Many New Features

Phoronix - Thu, 02/19/2026 - 18:31
PipeWire 1.6 is out today as the newest feature release for this software widely used by the Linux desktop for managing of audio and video streams while nicely integrating with sandboxed Flatpak apps and more...

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