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Reserved THP Feature Proposed For Linux To Combine The Best Of HugeTLB & THP

Phoronix - Sun, 06/28/2026 - 00:50
Linux kernel developer and Bytedance engineer Qi Zheng sent out a request for comments (RFC) patch series on a new feature called Reserved THP to combine the best of HugeTLB and THP kernel functionality...

Linux MD RAID5 Seeing Scalability Improvements Up To 17%

Phoronix - Sat, 06/27/2026 - 19:17
Posted to the Linux kernel mailing list this week was a new patch series working on scalability enhancements to the MD RAID5 software RAID code. Up to a 10~17% improvement was observed in some configurations with these RAID5 scalability patches...

GNOME AI Assistant Adds Image Generation Support

Phoronix - Sat, 06/27/2026 - 18:43
In development over the past three years has been Newelle as a GNOME-aligned AI virtual assistant. Out this week is Newelle 1.4.5 and it now adds AI image generation support and a redesigned chat interface...

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