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MidnightBSD 4.0.4 Released With Aged & Agectl For Age Verification/Attestation

Phoronix - Wed, 04/01/2026 - 06:50
MidnightBSD 4.0.4 is out today as the newest update to this desktop-minded BSD operating system. Notable with this update is introducing the Aged daemon and Agectl program for handling age verification and age attestation given the increasing number of US states pursuing laws around age verification at the OS user level...

xx-fractional-scale-v2 Aims To Improve Wayland Fractional Scaling

Phoronix - Wed, 04/01/2026 - 05:54
A merge request for Wayland Protocols was opened today for introducing "xx-fractional-scale-v2" as an experimental protocol to address current shortcomings with current Wayland fractional scaling. There is also a KDE KWin compositor merge request already out for review that implements this xx-fractional-scale-v2 protocol...

New Rust-Based BUS1 In-Kernel IPC In Development For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Wed, 04/01/2026 - 03:47
After KDBUS failed to make it into the mainline Linux kernel more than one decade ago as an in-kernel version of D-Bus, BUS1 was proposed as a clean sheet design for in-kernel, capability-based inter-process communication (IPC). BUS1 didn't gain enough traction to make it to the mainline kernel and then many of the same developers devised Dbus-Broker as a more performant D-Bus user-space implementation. Well, as a big surprise now, a new version of BUS1 is being worked on for the Linux kernel...

A Lot Of Rust Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 7.1, NVIDIA Nova Driver Additions

Phoronix - Tue, 03/31/2026 - 22:22
Sent out yesterday were the DRM Rust feature changes for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window coming in April. The Rust graphics/display driver code for Linux 7.1 includes more programming language abstractions and other Rust infrastructure work to make graphics drivers written in Rust more capable...

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