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Linux 7.0-rc6 Bringing A Lot Of Audio Quirks / Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 03/28/2026 - 19:57
The Linux 7.0-rc6 kernel due for release tomorrow has a lot of audio fixes/quirks to correct a wide variety of different hardware issues, mostly different problematic laptops for their speakers and/or microphone behavior under Linux...

LLVM's DTLTO Now More Efficiently Adding Files To The Link For Much Better Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 03/28/2026 - 19:28
Last year LLVM began landing their Distributed ThinLTO "DTLTO" support as an enhancement to their ThinLTO approach for link-time optimizations. An improvement merged this week to LLVM addresses a performance bottleneck discovered when adding files to the link...

Gedit Aims For More Frequent Releases, Bans AI / LLM Contributions

Phoronix - Sat, 03/28/2026 - 19:11
Following the release of GNOME 50, Gedit 50 was released on Friday as the newest version of this graphical text editor aligned with the GNOME desktop. Moving forward the Gedit developers are banning AI / large language model (LLM) driven developments and aim to ship more releases faster...

Fish 4.6 Shell Brings Support For Recent systemd Environment Variables

Phoronix - Sat, 03/28/2026 - 18:54
Fish 4.6 released today as the newest version of this Rust-based interactive shell for Linux and other platforms...

KDE Plasma 6.7 Addresses 5 Year Old Request For Easier Microphone Testing

Phoronix - Sat, 03/28/2026 - 18:35
It's been another busy week in the KDE space as Plasma developers continue working on new feature activity for the big Plasma 6.7 release...

DRBD Driver Working To Land ~15 Years Worth Of Changes Into The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sat, 03/28/2026 - 08:41
Developers behind the Distributed Replicated Block Device "DRBD" for mirroring block devices between multiple host systems are working to resync the upstream Linux kernel DRBD support with the out-of-tree DRBD code they have been maintaining for the past ~15 years out-of-sync. It's a big undertaking but they have begun staging patches for review and testing to get this massive set of changes up to par for mainline...

Framework Computer Steps Up Their Support For KDE

Phoronix - Sat, 03/28/2026 - 04:43
Framework Computer as the company behind the modular Framework laptops and incredible Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" Framework Desktop has stepped up their support for the KDE community...

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