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NVIDIA's Nova Driver Continues Being Built Up In Linux 7.2 Along With Other DRM Rust Code

Phoronix - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 18:56
Danilo Krummrich sent out the main set of DRM Rust subsystem changes on Thursday that are targeting the Linux 7.2 kernel. NVIDIA's open-source Nova driver continues seeing a bulk of the DRM Rust work as this modern successor to Nouveau continues taking shape...

Linux 7.2 Continues Improving AMDGPU Support On POWER, ARM

Phoronix - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 18:42
In addition to AMDGPU finally seeing HDMI 2.1 FRL support in Linux 7.2, another change worth noting in this week's AMDGPU pull request is the continued work on enhancing the AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver support for non-4K page size kernel builds. In particular this helps out with AMD graphics and ROCm for the likes of ARM and POWER...

GNOME 51 Retires Legacy NVIDIA Driver Support With Removing EGLStreams

Phoronix - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 18:28
EGLStreams was NVIDIA's original route to supporting Wayland with their official Linux graphics driver stack. Adoption was limited and driver vendors outside of NVIDIA didn't end up going with EGLStreams/EGLDevice. Thankfully, NVIDIA corrected course long ago with DMA-BUF, GBM, and KMS support that aligns with the rest of the ecosystem, and now that old code path is being removed from GNOME Mutter...

How to Stop Linux Processes from Using Excessive CPU and RAM

Tecmint - Fri, 06/05/2026 - 12:00
The post How to Stop Linux Processes from Using Excessive CPU and RAM first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

A process suddenly consuming 99% of your CPU at 2 AM can turn a stable server into a slow, unresponsive

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