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      Linux 6.17 Memory Management Optimizations, DAMON_STAT & Other Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 August • 3 visibility

    All of the memory management "MM" changes were merged this week for the ongoing Linux 6.17 merge window...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/Linux-6.17-MM

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      GNOME AI Virtual Assistant "Newelle" Reaches Version 1.0 Milestone

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 August

    Newelle is a virtual AI assistant developed for the GNOME desktop that supports voice chat and can handle carrying out web searches, terminal command execution, website reading, file management, document editing, and more. Newell v1.0 was released this week for advancing this GNOME AI virtual assistant...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/GNOME-AI-Assistant-1.0

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      Linux 6.17 Enables x86 MacBook Pro Touch Bars, Intel THC Wake-On-Touch

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 August

    All of the HID subsystem device driver updates have been merged for the Linux 6.17 merge window...
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      FEX 2508 Delivers Major Speedups For x86_64 Binaries On ARM: 39% Faster Cyberpunk 2077

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 August

    FEX 2508 as the open-source emulator that allows running x86_64 Linux binaries on AArch64, including the likes of Wine and Valve's Steam Play, is boasting some "big juicy" optimizations with its new release. Many games are now significantly faster atop FEX...
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      FireWire IEEE-1394 Support Further Refined In Linux 6.17

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 August

    While Apple removed FireWire support from the upcoming macOS 26 "Tahoe" release, Linux support for the IEEE-1394 standard continues. With the in-development Linux 6.17 there is some modernization work on the FireWire subsystem code with plan still being to maintain FireWire support on Linux until at least 2029...
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      KDE Plasma 6.5 Finally Adds Automatic Day/Night Theme Switching

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 August

    KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly report on the interesting Plasma desktop changes for the week. This week a long-sought feature for the Plasma desktop was finally merged...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/KDE-Theme-Day-Night-Auto-Switch

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      Steam Survey For July Shows Linux Use Approaching 3%

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 August

    Back in February Steam on Linux was at a 1.45% marketshare, then was corrected to 2.33% for Linux gaming in March, 2.27% for April, a nice jump to 2.69% for Linux gaming in May, and June came in at 2.57% for the Linux gaming population as a percent of Steam users. The July numbers were published this evening and show a new recent high for Linux gamers...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/Steam-Survey-July-2025

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      Wayback 0.2 Brings More Enhancements For This X11 Compatibility Layer

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 August

    In time for some weekend testing, Wayback 0.2 is now available for this X11 compatibility layer leveraging Wayland components. Wayback 0.2 remains at an alpha quality state but more functionality is now wired up...
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      Deferred Unwinder Code Upstreamed For Linux 6.17 On Road To SFrame Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 August

    Linus Torvalds today merged the initial deferred unwinder infrastructure into the Linux 6.17 kernel on the path toward enabling SFrame stack trace format support...
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