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Linux 7.0 Lands Improvements To Deal With Upcoming Rust Changes, Build Reproducibility

Phoronix - Sun, 03/15/2026 - 19:02
Merged to mainline yesterday for Linux 7.0 were yet more Rust changes in preparing for upcoming Rust releases as well as enhancing the kernel build reproducibility when engaging the Rust code...

Hangs & Performance Regression On Large Systems Fixed For Linux 7.0-rc4

Phoronix - Sun, 03/15/2026 - 18:52
This week's "sched/urgent" pull request was sent out today of scheduler updates for the ongoing Linux 7.0 cycle. Notable this week are fixing some hangs as well as a possible performance regression on large systems...

KDE Linux Adds Apple APFS File-System Support, Workaround For Frustrating AMDGPU Issue

Phoronix - Sun, 03/15/2026 - 18:39
In addition to GNOME OS seeing recent improvements, KDE Linux continues seeing more enhancements too for this leading reference platform for showcasing the KDE Plasma desktop...

SuperTux 0.7 Released With Enhanced Graphics, Level Redesign

Phoronix - Sun, 03/15/2026 - 18:19
SuperTux 0.7 officially released overnight for this nostalgic open-source game now seeing its first new release since December 2021. SuperTux 0.7 brings many significant improvements for this open-source game inspired by Super Mario...

Open-Source "GreenBoost" Driver Aims To Augment NVIDIA GPUs vRAM With System RAM & NVMe To Handle Larger LLMs

Phoronix - Sun, 03/15/2026 - 08:17
An open-source, independently developed Linux kernel module called GreenBoost aims to augment the dedicated video memory on NVIDIA discrete GPUs with system memory and NVMe storage. The intent here with GreenBoost is a CUDA caching layer to more easily run larger AI models for LLMs that otherwise won't fit solely in your graphics card's dedicated vRAM...

GIMP 3.2 Released With Many Improvements

Phoronix - Sun, 03/15/2026 - 02:38
Just under one year since the long-awaited GIMP 3.0 release, GIMP 3.2 is out today as the first feature release building off the GIMP 3.0 foundation...

Debian 13.4 Released With Dozens Of Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2026 - 23:58
Debian 13.4 rolled out today with dozens of security fixes and other general bug fixes with the updated install media for Debian 13 Trixie...

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