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Sashiko Now Providing AI Reviews On Rust Code For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sun, 03/22/2026 - 08:22
A few days ago Google engineers went public with Sashiko with their agentic AI code review for the Linux kernel. The Google Gemini Pro powered AI code review service is automatically monitoring the Linux kernel mailing list for new patch submissions and has proven useful already. Interest continues to build by upstream Linux kernel stakeholders around Sashiko and the latest addition is now covering the Rust-For-Linux mailing list submissions...

Linux Driver Being Worked On For Pulsar Gaming Mice

Phoronix - Sat, 03/21/2026 - 22:29
A Linux HID driver is being developed for Pulsar branded gaming mice to expose additional information and capabilities...

LibreOffice 26.8 To Add A Donation Banner To Its Start Center

Phoronix - Sat, 03/21/2026 - 21:22
LibreOffice 26.8 merged initial support for adding a donation banner to its Start Center. This initial UI when launching LibreOffice aims to make users aware of the community-driven focus of the project and to hopefully solicit additional donations from the community...

Linux 7.0 Lands Fix For Years Old Bug Affecting AMD Hainan GPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 03/21/2026 - 19:04
Merged overnight for Linux 7.0 and set to be back-ported to existing Linux stable kernel versions is a fix for aging AMD GCN 1.0 "Hainan" GPU models. This closes a 2021 bug report that was long neglected and ended up being just a small tweak to fix the issue reported of GPU hangs...

KDE Plasma 6.7's KWin Lands Support For 3D LUTs To Help With Modern GPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 03/21/2026 - 18:47
In addition to releasing Plasma 6.6.3 this week, KDE developers remain quite busy working on new features for the Plasma 6.7 desktop while also already queuing some changes for the next Plasma 6.6.4 point release...

SUSE's Agama Installer Sees Architectural Revamp

Phoronix - Sat, 03/21/2026 - 18:29
The modern Agama OS installer for SUSE/openSUSE is out with its first new release since November. With the time since the prior release, SUSE engineers have been making key improvements to Agama and enhancing its architecture to more align with their original vision for it...

SysV Init 3.16 Released With Cleanups, Improved systemd Unit To SysV Script Conversion

Phoronix - Sat, 03/21/2026 - 18:04
For any holdouts still running SysV Init instead of systemd or other alternatives like OpenRC, SysV Init 3.16 is out as the first release in a half-year and bringing a few refinements...

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