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      What's Excited Open-Source Enthusiasts & Linux Users The Most So Far In 2023

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 July, 2023

    With the first-half of the year amazingly already in the books, here is a look back at what's captivated Linux/open-source fans the most from all the content on Phoronix. So far this year I have personally written 1,407 original news articles on software/hardware topics and another 74 original Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles...
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      OpenZFS 2.2-rc1 Brings Linux Container Support, BLAKE3 Checksums, Block Cloning

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 June, 2023

    While OpenZFS 3.0 has been talked about for a few years with macOS support, it doesn't appear to be on the immediate horizon and the OpenZFS 2.2 release is being worked on currently for providing a few new features to this open-source ZFS file-system implementation on Linux and FreeBSD systems...
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      Linux's SLAB Allocator Is Officially Deprecated

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 June, 2023

    Following the path of SLOB, Linux's SLAB memory allocator is now officially deprecated beginning with the Linux 6.5 kernel series...
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      Linux 6.5 Continues Making Preparations For WiFi 7, Enabling New Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 June, 2023

    The Linux 6.5 networking subsystem changes include more preparations around the ongoing WiFi 7 wireless standard as well as bringing up support for a number of newer network adapters...
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      SOF 2.6 Released: Intel Already Preparing Sound Open Firmware For Lunar Lake

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 June, 2023

    Sound Open Firmware 2.6 was released on Thursday for this Intel-started open-source software project for having a fully open audio DSP firmware stack and related development tooling. While initially limited to Intel hardware support, SOF has since grown and seen support from the likes of Mediatek, Realtek, NXP, and even recent AMD SoCs...
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      LoongArch Adds Simultaneous Multi-Threading, SIMD/Vector Extensions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 June, 2023

    China's Loongson continues preparing the software support for their upcoming 3A6000 processors that will feature several new capabilities over their inaugural LoongArch-based 3A5000 series...
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      Cloud Hypervisor 33 Released With TDX Fix, New D-Bus API

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 June, 2023

    Cloud Hypervisor has advanced quite nicely in the half-year it's been around since Intel software engineers began writing this Rust-based cloud-focused virtualization hypervisor. This VMM project has since become more independent and regularly receiving code contributions from the likes of Arm, Microsoft, and Tencent while also gaining the support of companies like AMD and Ampere. On Thursday marked the release of Cloud Hypervisor 33...
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      Linux 6.5 Should Spend Less Time Waiting On PCIe Devices

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 June, 2023

    The PCI subsystem updates have been submitted for the ongoing Linux 6.5 development...
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      Rocky Linux Shares How They May Continue To Obtain The RHEL Source Code

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 June, 2023

    Following Red Hat's decision earlier this month to limit access to the Red Hat Enterprise Linux source code and that leading to downstreams scrambling to figure out their paths forward to avoid tracking CentOS Stream instead and still aiming to offer 1:1 RHEL compatibility without being restricted by the Red Hat Customer Portal, the Rocky Linux distribution today expressed a few of the ideas they are considering...