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Intel Compute Runtime Promotes Support For Wildcat Lake, "Early" Crescent Island

Phoronix - Mon, 04/20/2026 - 21:51
Out today is the Intel Compute Runtime 26.14.37833.4 that now includes production support for the newly-launched Wildcat Lake cut-down Panther Lake SoCs that debuted last week as the Core Series 3...

A Lot Of Memory Management "MM" Improvements Merged For Linux 7.1

Phoronix - Mon, 04/20/2026 - 21:35
Andrew Morton recently sent out his various "MM" related pull requests for the ongoing Linux 7.1 kernel. There are a number of memory management optimizations in this next kernel version, which is always nice to see but all the more so these days with the inflated RAM pricing and other computer component prices...

Popular Rust-Based Database Turns To AI For Up To 1.5x Speedup, Other Improvements

Phoronix - Mon, 04/20/2026 - 18:27
Redb is one of the open-source, embed-friendly key-value databases written in the Rust programming language. Redb is ACID-compliant while known for being high performance and with its new Redb 4.1 release is even faster thanks to some improvements authored by Claude (AI)...

Linux 7.1 Kernel Graphics Driver Changes Merged With Intel & AMD Leading The Way

Phoronix - Mon, 04/20/2026 - 18:12
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics driver and accelerator driver changes for Linux 7.1 were recently merged to Git. As usual, it's the Intel and AMD kernel graphics drivers seeing a bulk of the interesting open-source GPU driver activity. Plus ongoing work to make Rust-based GPU drivers more viable...

JFS Sees Data Integrity Hardening With Linux 7.1

Phoronix - Mon, 04/20/2026 - 17:58
It's pretty rare nowadays seeing any real changes to the JFS file-system on Linux when there are multiple far superior solutions available. But in any event, the JFS file-system driver has seen a few fixes in Linux 7.1...

LXQt 2.4 Released With More Wayland Fixes/Improvements

Phoronix - Mon, 04/20/2026 - 17:36
The LXQt 2.4 desktop released today for joining the modern open-source desktop party alongside the likes of the recently debuted GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6, and others...

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