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Linux 6.13 Series Ends With The Linux 6.13.12 Release

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 April

Greg Kroah-Hartman has released a few new Linux kernel stable point releases today for Easter and also capping off the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle in the process...

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OpenVPN DCO Driver Queued In Net-Next Ahead Of Linux 6.16

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 April

The long-in-development OpenVPN DCO kernel driver for providing data channel offloading (DCO) to yield faster OpenVPN performance looks like it's now in a state for upstreaming with the Linux 6.16 kernel...

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HFS/HFS+ File-System Driver Support For Linux May End Up Being Maintained

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 April

Just a few days ago there was talk of potentially removing the Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers from the Linux kernel considering they had been orphaned for a decade and beginning to cause a maintenance burden. After briefly being marked for deprecation, it now looks like the drivers may be maintained with new maintainers alleging to step-up to the role...

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Intel Simplifies Its Firmware License For The Integrated Sensor Hub "ISH"

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 April

The Intel Integrated Sensor Hub "ISH" allows for offloading sensor polling and other tasks to a low-power co-processor to help reduce overall system power consumption for extending battery life with tablets, embedded devices, and 2-in1 laptops...

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Linux 6.16 Could See AMD SEV-SNP SVSM vTPM Driver Merged For EPYC CPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 April

The Linux 6.16 kernel this summer will likely see the new SNP SVSM vTPM driver introduced for further enhancing the AMD EPYC confidential computing capabilities atop the mainline Linux kernel...

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A Fresh Take On Virtual Swap Space Being Pursued For The Linux Kernel

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 April

A request for comments (RFC) patch series sent out this week for the Linux kernel is working on the notion of Virtual Swap Space support. The notion of Virtual Swap Space has been talked about for years and even going back to 2011 there's been efforts to redesign the kernel's swap cache along similar lines...

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KDE Plasma 6.4 Lands Initial Support For The Wayland Session Restore Protocol

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 April

It's been a very exciting week in the KDE Plasma space with the start of a big new feature landing for the Plasma 6.4 desktop...

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LibreOffice 25.8 Landing Many Patches For Improving Qt Toolkit Integration

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 April

In the past few days there has been an uptick in patches merged for the LibreOffice 25.8 open-source office suite around "Qt Weld" that has been seeing an increasing number of patches over the past few months for enhancing the Qt toolkit integration...

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NVIDIA Upstreaming Work For Linux On Their Smart Switch SN4280, SN5610, SN5640

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 April

One of many Linux kernel patch series that NVIDIA has been working on recently to upstream to the mainline Linux kernel are the adjustments needed for Linux running on their newest Smart Switch networking products for the data center...