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FreeBSD On Laptops Sees New Power Management Driver, WiFi 4 / WiFi 5 Progress

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Monday, 31 March - 12:28

Over the past number of months there has been an effort underway to improve FreeBSD laptop support with financial backing by Dell, AMD, and Framework among others. This has resulted in power management improvements, increasing the focus on WiFi driver support for FreeBSD, and related areas to make FreeBSD on laptops more appealing and relevant in 2025...

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Firefox 137 Release Brings VA-API Accelerated H.265 On Linux

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Monday, 31 March - 11:06

The Mozilla Firefox 137 release binaries are now available ahead of the official release set for Tuesday...

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Linux 6.15 Introduces SPI Offloading, Converts More Drivers To The Faux Bus

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Monday, 31 March - 10:54

Greg Kroah-Hartman on Sunday submitted all of the "char/misc" patches for the Linux 6.15 merge window for this random catch-all area of the kernel with small drivers and other random/obscure hardware support...

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PostgreSQL Lands Batch Mode & Other Async I/O Improvements

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Monday, 31 March - 10:39

Last week PostgreSQL merged support for IO_uring that can provide for "considerably faster" performance of this popular open-source database server. Over the weekend some additional improvements were merged to the asynchronous I/O "AIO" code to PostgreSQL, including introducing a new batch mode that can also provide a performance win...

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Intel-Started Cloud Hypervisor Project Adds Experimental RISC-V Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Monday, 31 March - 10:28

Cloud Hypervisor began as an open-source Intel software project more than a half-decade ago with an emphasis on security and cloud deployments while leveraging the Rust programming language. With time its scope has broadened a lot as has its industry adoption. With time it added ARM64 support and recruited AMD, Ampere Computing, Microsoft, and others as its supporters while being folded into the Linux Foundation. The latest expansion for the project is introducing experimental RISC-V 64-bit support...

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Linux 6.15 Wires Up SoundWire Bulk Register Access

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Monday, 31 March - 10:17

The in-development Linux 6.15 kernel is continuing to enhance its support for MIPI's SoundWire specification for small audio peripherals with this two-pin, low-complexity audio interface...

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Many Rust Changes Submitted For Linux 6.15

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Monday, 31 March - 00:06

All of the Rust programming language infrastructure updates for the Linux 6.15 kernel have now been submitted. In addition to a lot of technical Rust improvements for the Linux kernel, this cycle also marks the first time Rust Linux maintainer Miguel Ojeda has taken a pull request directly from another contributor as they prepare to work out sub-trees for the Rust ecosystem...

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GRUB Bootloader Received 73 Patches To Fix A Variety Of Recent Security Issues

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Tuesday, 25 March - 00:26

The GRUB bootloader saw a set of 73 patches last month for addressing a variety of security flaws that were discovered...

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GIMP 3.0.2 Released To Fix Early Bugs From GIMP 3.0

news.movim.eu / Phoronix · Monday, 24 March - 20:56

GIMP 3.0 was 7+ years in development before releasing as stable last week for this much anticipated, GTK3-ported image manipulation program update. Thankfully we're not seeing any lengthy periods of time for new bug-fix releases with today already marking the release of GIMP 3.0.2...

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