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Intel Panther Lake Shows Strong Linux CPU Performance & Power Efficiency With Core Ultra X7 358H Benchmarks

Phoronix - Tue, 02/03/2026 - 23:08
For those that have been very eager to hear about the Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" performance on Linux, today's the day! Last Thursday the MSI Prestige 14 Flip AI+ Evo laptop arrived that is powered by the Core Ultra X7 358H. Here is a look at how that Intel Core Ultra X7 358H competes for performance and power efficiency against a wide range of other laptops on an up-to-date Linux software stack in with around 300 benchmarks.

Linux Dropping SMC TCP ULP Support For Being "Fundamentally Broken"

Phoronix - Tue, 02/03/2026 - 21:10
Merged four years ago to the Linux kernel networking subsystem's Shared Memory Communications (SMC) code was TCP Upper Layer Protocol (ULP) support for allowing applications to replace TCP with the SMC protocol in-place as a transparent replacement. Except for the next kernel cycle it's set to be reverted after realizing it's "fundamentally broken."..

OpenIndiana Is Porting Solaris' IPS Package Management To Rust

Phoronix - Tue, 02/03/2026 - 19:04
OpenIndiana as the open-source project built atop Illumos that is continuing to maintain and advance the former OpenSolaris code is working on a big ambitions of modernizing the Image Packaging System (IPS) package management solution. As part of that they are working to move from a C and Python codebase over to Rust...

Reworked NTFS Linux Driver Posted With More Improvements & Fixes

Phoronix - Tue, 02/03/2026 - 18:36
Announced back in October was NTFS Plus as a new Linux driver for NTFS based on the former NTFS kernel driver prior to Paragon Software contributing the NTFS3 driver code. The intent with this new driver is for better performance. more features, public user-space utilities around it, and all-around a nice step forward for those reliant on this Microsoft file-system. Out this week is the sixth iteration of this remade NTFS driver...

X.Org Developers Conference 2026 Being Hosted By Arm In Toronto

Phoronix - Tue, 02/03/2026 - 18:29
The X.Org Foundation has announced that this year's X.Org Developers Conference will be taking place in Toronto, Canada and hosted by Arm...

How to Enable AI Agents in ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors on Linux

Tecmint - Tue, 02/03/2026 - 15:37
The post How to Enable AI Agents in ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Learn how to enable and configure AI agents in ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors to automate document editing, generate content, analyze files,

The post How to Enable AI Agents in ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors on Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Evolution to a sovereign TechCo: Embracing Polycloud, agentic AI, and digital trust

Red Hat News - Tue, 02/03/2026 - 08:00
The clock is ticking for Communications Service Providers (CSPs). To survive in the telecommunications (telco) industry, every CSP must transition to a TechCo model and beyond. StarHub’s journey shows how it can be done, focusing on 3 non-negotiable pillars: polycloud agility, secure agentic AI, and digital trust.In this blog, we’ll discuss the massive technological transformation that StarHub, and the telco industry as a whole, is currently undergoing. You’ll also learn why It's clear that the days of the traditional CSP are behind us, and why the future belongs to TechCo and beyond.Pol

Achieve more with Red Hat OpenShift 4.21

Red Hat News - Tue, 02/03/2026 - 08:00
Red Hat OpenShift 4.21, based on Kubernetes 1.34 and CRI-O 1.34, is now generally available. Together with Red Hat OpenShift Platform Plus, this release demonstrates our continued commitment to delivering the trusted, comprehensive, and consistent application platform that enterprises rely on for production workloads across the hybrid cloud without compromising on security.This release emphasizes running AI training jobs, containerized microservices, and virtualized applications on the same infrastructure with the same operational model. With OpenShift 4.21, you can simultaneously modernize ex

Rust Coreutils 0.6 Brings Increased Compatibility, Removing Some Unsafe Code & More Perf

Phoronix - Tue, 02/03/2026 - 06:30
Following the Rust Coreutils presentation from FOSDEM this weekend, Rust Coreutils 0.6 is now available as the latest feature release for this Rust programming language re-implementation of GNU Coreutils...

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