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Haiku OS Addressing Slow "git status" Performance Relative To Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 09/17/2025 - 12:00
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project published a new blog post to outline some of their latest development activity. One of the areas they have been focusing on in the performance department has been for addressing much slower git status performance compared to Linux...

Tyr Driver Being Submitted For Linux 6.18 As Rust-Based Arm Mali Driver

Phoronix - Wed, 09/17/2025 - 04:30
The big set of Rust DRM kernel graphics/display driver updates were sent out to DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel. Most notable with this pull request is merging the Tyr driver, the new open-source and Rust-based DRM driver for Arm Mali GPUs...

AMD Begins Plumbing APCI C4 Support In The Linux Kernel For Greater Power Savings

Phoronix - Wed, 09/17/2025 - 01:00
AMD engineers have begun ironing out ACPI C4 support for the Linux kernel in order to provide greater power savings on newer AMD Ryzen platforms that have begun to support this deeper sleep state...

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