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Intel Puts An End To Open-Source Projects For Optane Memory, FPGAs & Ansible

Phoronix - Tue, 03/10/2026 - 21:35
Following Intel archiving various open-source projects that they are no longer maintaining amid open-source setbacks due to reduced staffing and other corporate restructuring, another round of Intel open-source projects were formally archived on Monday...

Intel Preps Linux For Directed Package Thermal Interrupts

Phoronix - Tue, 03/10/2026 - 20:20
Intel Linux engineers are preparing the Linux kernel's Intel Thermal driver for supporting Directed Package Thermal Interrupts as a new feature of recent Intel CPUs...

Valve/RADV Developers Look At More Per-Game Tuning/Optimizations For Mesa Drivers

Phoronix - Tue, 03/10/2026 - 18:25
RADV Radeon Vulkan driver developers on Valve's Linux graphics team are evaluating the idea of greater use of per-game/app profiles within this open-source driver and for Mesa drivers at large. Currently for Mesa drivers with DriConf there is the ability to provide per-game/app workarounds while the consideration now is extending that to allow for more per-game optimizations...

exfatprogs 1.3.2 Brings Improvements To mkfs.exfat, fsck.exfat

Phoronix - Tue, 03/10/2026 - 18:08
For those making use of Microsoft's exFAT file-system under Linux, tagged today was exfatprogs 1.3.2 as the newest update to these open-source user-space programs for going along with the Linux kernel's exFAT file-system driver...

Fedora 44 Beta Released With Better KDE Experience, Many Upgrades

Phoronix - Tue, 03/10/2026 - 17:51
The Fedora 44 Beta release is out today on schedule in working toward the official Fedora 44 release around mid-April...

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