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AMD CPPC Performance Priority Being Prepared For Linux - New Zen 6 Feature

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2026 - 21:28
Patches were posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list for enabling a new feature called AMD CPPC Performance Priority as a new hardware feature being found with "future AMD processors".... Which given the timing of these patches, almost certainly means the upcoming Zen 6 processors...

Intel Xeon Features To Be Supported By Ubuntu 26.04 LTS - Some Lacking User-Space Packages

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2026 - 21:17
Canonical engineer Serkan Uygungelen published a post outlining some of the Intel Xeon CPU features to be supported by the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release, some Xeon features already supported by the existing Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, and some features only partially supported for still not having packaged user-space libraries/support within the Ubuntu archive...

Oracle Updates Free Solaris CBE For Open-Source Developers / Non-Production Uses

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2026 - 19:27
Four years ago Oracle announced Solaris CBE as the "Common Build Environment" version of Solaris 11.4. Oracle Solaris CBE is made available as free for open-source developers and other non-production use. Oracle this week released a new version of Solaris CBE for those wanting this free* version of Solaris...

NetBSD 11.0-RC2 Released For Testing

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2026 - 19:15
The big NetBSD 11.0 release continues on approach with NetBSD 11.0-RC2 having been released as the latest test candidate...

Haiku OS Pulls In WiFi Driver Updates From OpenBSD, Other Improvements In February

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2026 - 19:12
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project had an eventful February with a number of driver improvements and a variety of other enhancements...

Vulkan 1.4.345 Released With New ARM Shader Instrumentation Extension

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2026 - 18:55
Vulkan 1.4.345 released overnight as the latest routine spec update to this graphics and compute API. There is one new extension besides a handful of different clarifications and corrections to various elements of the spec...

Wayland 1.25 RC1 Released With Improved Documentation, Minor Changes

Phoronix - Fri, 03/06/2026 - 10:55
Simon Ser announced the release today of Wayland 1.25 RC1 (Wayland v1.24.91) in working toward this next stable release...

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