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Intel Looking To Move Their Low-Power Mode Daemon Into The Linux Kernel Source Tree

Phoronix - Tue, 05/12/2026 - 18:04
For years Intel has been developing the Low Power Mode Daemon "LPMD" to help their hybrid laptop and desktop CPUs deliver optimal power efficiency under Linux. Intel LPMD leverages hardware hints and other features for optimizing active idle power of the processor and putting the system into lower power modes where possible. This tool could soon call the Linux kernel source tree its new home...

BeOS-Inspired Haiku Finally Sees Initial ARM64 SMP Support

Phoronix - Tue, 05/12/2026 - 17:51
The open-source Haiku operating system inspired by BeOS is now seeing multi-core symmetric multi-processing (SMP) support on ARM64 that works at least in a virtualized world. Plus an assortment of other improvements made to this open-source OS over the course of April...

Open-Source Radeon Driver For R300 Through R500 GPUs Sees Big Code Cleanup In 2026

Phoronix - Tue, 05/12/2026 - 08:33
The open-source Radeon "R300g" driver living within the Mesa codebase for supporting the aging ATI (AMD) Radeon 9500 "R300" through Radeon X1000 "R500" series graphics processors is going through a big code restructuring as part of a big undertaking in 2026... Yes, 24 years after the ATI R300 GPUs first released, thanks to a devoted open-source developer fan, there is a significant improvement in the works...

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