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LoongArch Ready With New Features In Linux 7.0

Phoronix - Wed, 02/18/2026 - 21:16
The Linux 7.0 kernel is shipping improvements for LoongArch, the Chinese CPU architecture inspired by MIPS64 and RISC-V and has been showing much potential for their domestic PC manufacturing...

Apple M3 With Asahi Linux Continues Making Progress, No ETA Yet For Shipping

Phoronix - Wed, 02/18/2026 - 19:34
Asahi Linux developers have published a status report following the recent Linux 6.19 kernel release to outline recent progress and upcoming items around Apple Silicon support on Linux. This year will also mark five years that Asahi Linux has been around for bringing Linux to the Apple M-Series hardware...

FreeBSD's KDE Desktop Install Option Ready For Testing

Phoronix - Wed, 02/18/2026 - 19:25
As part of enhancing the FreeBSD experience on laptops and desktops, FreeBSD developers have been working toward adding a convenient desktop install option to their text-based installer for easily deploying the KDE Plasma desktop along with the necessary GPU drivers. After it didn't get wrapped up in time for the FreeBSD 15.0 release, that desktop installer option is now ready for testing...

Intel Lands Initial Preparations For DSA 3.0 Accelerators In Linux 7.0

Phoronix - Wed, 02/18/2026 - 19:21
Last year we began seeing Linux patches preparing the kernel for Intel Data Streaming Accelerator "DSA" 3.0 IP. Finally with the Linux 7.0 kernel those patches in updated form have now been merged...

KVM In Linux 7.0 Adds Support For Virtualizing AMD ERAPS

Phoronix - Wed, 02/18/2026 - 18:51
All of the KVM virtualization feature changes were recently merged for the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel...

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