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Samsung Exynos 7870 Seeing New Open-Source Driver Activity For Linux 6.18

Phoronix - Sun, 09/14/2025 - 17:44
The Samsung Exynos 7870 Octa SoC released back in 2016 on a 14nm process and powered by eight Arm Cortex-53 cores and a Mali T830 GPU. Finally now for late 2025 there is open-source display driver happenings going mainline for this aging SoC...

Redox OS To Focus More On Wayland, "Redox Server" & Performance Over The Next Year

Phoronix - Sun, 09/14/2025 - 08:23
The Rust-based open-source operating system project Redox OS published a blog post today outlining their development priorities for the remainder of 2025 and then onward to 2026...

Linux's New "Sheaves" Per-CPU Caching Layer Showing Massive Wins For AMD Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 09/13/2025 - 19:00
Earlier this week I wrote about Sheaves as an opt-in, per-CPU array-based caching layer likely coming for Linux 6.18. The sheaves patches have been queued into the "slab/for-next" Git branch ahead of the Linux 6.18 kernel merge window. Patches posted now by Google are showing the Linux Sheaves code having a massive beneficial impact for large AMD systems...

Cloud Hypervisor Will Block AI Generated Code, Raises x86_64 VM Limit To 8,192 vCPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 09/13/2025 - 18:23
Cloud Hypervisor 48.0 is now available for this Intel-started, open-source and Rust-based VMM focused on modern cloud workloads. Cloud Hypervisor continues to tailor to Windows and Linux guests while emphasizing security and cloud-native workloads...

62 Patches Posted For Stripping Classic Initrd Support From The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sat, 09/13/2025 - 18:12
Last month I wrote about initrd support potentially being on its way out of the Linux kernel. For years Linux developers have wanted to phase out the classic initial RAM disk support from the Linux kernel and it looks like that day may finally be near with patches having been posted for removing the support...

libadwaita 1.8 Released Ahead Of GNOME 49

Phoronix - Sat, 09/13/2025 - 17:55
Ahead of the GNOME 49 stable release expected on Wednesday, libadwaita 1.8 released this week to incorporate all the enhancements made over the past six months to this GTK4 library that provides GNOME-specific widgets and features...

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