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Perl 5.42 Released With New Operators, Unicode 16 Support, Security Fixes

Phoronix - Fri, 07/04/2025 - 07:55
Perl 5.42 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular programming language that comes one year after the prior Perl 5.40 release...

Fedora Linux Looks To End Support For UEFI On MBR-Paritioned Disks

Phoronix - Fri, 07/04/2025 - 04:06
A proposal raised for Fedora 43 would end support for allowing UEFI installations on MBR-partitioned disks for x86_64 systems in the Anaconda installer. This would enforce a requirement on using GPT partition tables for all UEFI-based Fedora installations in the x86 world...

Intel Lunar Lake Showing Some Performance Improvements With Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Thu, 07/03/2025 - 22:50
For those on an Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" system, the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel is looking to be in better shape for those newest Intel SoCs. In testing carried out using a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura edition laptop, there are performance gains in some areas with the Linux 6.16 development kernel.

X.Org Server Lands Big Improvement For Using Zink With GLAMOR

Phoronix - Thu, 07/03/2025 - 20:39
A nice improvement was merged today to the X.Org Server for benefiting the GLAMOR 2D acceleration code when using the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver...

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