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Bash 5.3 Released With Many Improvements

Phoronix - Fri, 07/04/2025 - 18:09
Three years since the Bash 5.2 release and one year since the first alpha release, GNU Bash 5.3 was released overnight as the newest step forward for this popular shell used on Linux and other operating systems...

Perl 5.42 Released With New Operators, Unicode 16 Support, Security Fixes

Phoronix - Fri, 07/04/2025 - 07:55
Perl 5.42 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular programming language that comes one year after the prior Perl 5.40 release...

Fedora Linux Looks To End Support For UEFI On MBR-Paritioned Disks

Phoronix - Fri, 07/04/2025 - 04:06
A proposal raised for Fedora 43 would end support for allowing UEFI installations on MBR-partitioned disks for x86_64 systems in the Anaconda installer. This would enforce a requirement on using GPT partition tables for all UEFI-based Fedora installations in the x86 world...

Intel Lunar Lake Showing Some Performance Improvements With Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Thu, 07/03/2025 - 22:50
For those on an Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" system, the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel is looking to be in better shape for those newest Intel SoCs. In testing carried out using a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura edition laptop, there are performance gains in some areas with the Linux 6.16 development kernel.

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