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Operating Systems and Porting / Re: [NEWS] Linux 7.0
« Last post by tle on April 12, 2026, 07:49:16 pm »
I've just manually built the kernel for Fedora 44 (as of now Fedora has not yet, likely they are going to stick to 6.19 for the F44 release). So far no issue, everything just work for me. Having said that I do not run DB, web server or NAS on the blackbird system so I could not verify if there are regressions to those applications
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Operating Systems and Porting / [NEWS] Linux 7.0
« Last post by tle on April 12, 2026, 06:20:30 pm »
More information: https://kernelnewbies.org/LinuxChanges

Key highlights from the Linux 7.0 changelog include:

File Systems:

* XFS: Introduction of autonomous self-healing capabilities.
* EXT4: Enhanced performance for concurrent direct I/O writes.
* Performance & Memory:
* Faster swap mechanisms.
* Improved memory reclamation for file caches.
* Standardized generic I/O handling.

Architecture & Security:

* Intel TSX optimizations.
* Quantum-resistant kernel module signing.

Language Support:

* The Rust language experiment is considered complete and is now a core, non-experimental part of the kernel.

Hardware Support:

*General improvements and support for new hardware devices


POWERPC
kdump: Add support for crashkernel CMA reservation
powernv: Enable cpuidle state detection for POWER11
book3s64: Hash / SLB fixes & improvements (cover)
smp: Expose die_id and die_cpumask


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Applications and Porting / Re: Little Snitch for Linux!
« Last post by TimKelly on April 12, 2026, 05:15:22 pm »
I use it for OS X, and it is a fine product, but in reality it has limited usefulness due to the consolidation on cloud computing and the control of the Internet by Google.  It is not possible to limit connections to miscreant sites without blocking legitimate ones, if they share the same ip address(es) or blocks, as is common with cloud computing.  It is not possible to block Google without breaking some or all functionality of perhaps 90% of web sites, since so many sites rely on Google APIs for the creating of their sites.
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Applications and Porting / Re: Little Snitch for Linux!
« Last post by tle on April 11, 2026, 11:07:15 pm »
Isn't it the popular firewall for OSX? I fondly remember then it was quite good
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User Zone / Re: Unable to boot with NVIDIA GT710 installed
« Last post by carlosgonz on April 11, 2026, 08:13:56 pm »
Bernie
 GnuLinux FSFLA 7.0 may release next Monday or Tuesday, this version enable Nouveau 64k for PPC and other improvements, so can you go ASAP to same 64k-thread on  Gnu Trisquel Forum to enable 64k for GnuLinux 7.0 release?

Thank you,
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Applications and Porting / Re: Little Snitch for Linux!
« Last post by MPC7500 on April 11, 2026, 01:20:20 pm »
Interesting :)
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Applications and Porting / Little Snitch for Linux!
« Last post by rjzak on April 10, 2026, 10:00:56 pm »
The creators of Little Snitch, a common application-layer firewall for Mac OS, have created a Linux version which is partially open source: https://github.com/obdev/littlesnitch-linux, https://obdev.at/products/littlesnitch-linux/download.html.

I have an email thread with one of the devs for PowerPC support, which seems positive!
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General OpenPOWER Discussion / Re: Queensland Health, IBM's 12 year ban and the future of POWER
« Last post by MPC7500 on April 02, 2026, 01:58:36 pm »
The future of POWER: https://newsroom.ibm.com/2026-04-02-ibm-announces-strategic-collaboration-with-arm-to-shape-the-future-of-enterprise-computing
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Applications and Porting / Re: Firefox WebAssembly (WASM) on ppc64le? Jitsi Meet, Zoom, etc not working
« Last post by tle on April 01, 2026, 11:52:32 pm »
I am going to try to make his JIT work run again on the newer version - still in progress. I will NOT touch the WASM in this work

ref: https://github.com/runlevel5/firefox/pull/1

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Applications and Porting / Re: RustiCL on Fedora 39
« Last post by Hasturtium on March 31, 2026, 02:32:41 pm »
Yeah, it's worked for a while, just took some twiddling and manual intervention to prevent it from trying to load Clover.
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