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Nova Lake S Support Added To Intel LPSS Driver In Linux 7.0

Phoronix - Tue, 02/17/2026 - 19:22
The latest Nova Lake enablement work for the Linux kernel to land is adding support for Nova Lake S platforms to the Intel LPSS driver in the upcoming Linux 7.0 kernel...

DNF 5.4 Released With Some New Options & AI Contributions Policy

Phoronix - Tue, 02/17/2026 - 19:06
DNF 5.4 is out today as the latest release for this next-generation RPM package management solution used by Fedora, Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and various other RPM-based Linux distributions...

KDE Plasma 6.6 Released With Many Excellent Improvements

Phoronix - Tue, 02/17/2026 - 18:32
KDE Plasma 6.6 is now officially out as the newest feature update to this prominent open-source desktop environment. Plasma 6.6 is self-described by KDE developers as "the best desktop in the known universe (according to us). Plasma 6.6 is all about making your life as easy as possible without sacrificing any of the flexibility."..

Gentoo Linux Begins Codeberg Migration In Moving Away From GitHub, Avoiding Copilot

Phoronix - Tue, 02/17/2026 - 09:18
The Gentoo Linux project last year announced plans to move their code hosting to Codeberg rather than GitHub. Gentoo's desire to move away from GitHub was motivated by Microsoft's Copilot training on GitHub repositories. Those plans are turning into action now with the main Gentoo project up on Codeberg and honoring pull requests...

Linux 7.0 CXL Enables AMD Zen 5 Address Translation Feature

Phoronix - Tue, 02/17/2026 - 06:46
A long-in-development feature for AMD EPYC Zen 5 server platforms now merged for the Linux 7.0 kernel is ACPI PRMT-based address translation for the Compute Express Link (CXL) subsystem...

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