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      KDE Plasma 6.8 Now Makes Tiled Windows Fit Together More Nicely

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 October 2026

    There is just over one week to go until the much anticipated KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop release. Some last minute fixes continue flowing into Plasma 6.8 as well as early feature work continuing for Plasma 6.9...
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      Wine 11.19 Released With Wayland Color Management For Vulkan, DNS Query Caching

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 October 2026

    We are nearing the point of the Wine 12.0 stable release coming up in early 2027 while for now the Wine 11.xx bi-weekly development releases continue. Out today is Wine 11.19 with a few new features and plenty of fixes...
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      Linux 7.4 To Introduce Initial Device Trees For Apple M4, A18 Pro For MacBook Neo

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 October 2026

    Asahi Linux developer Sven Peter today sent out the pull requests of the Apple SoC Device Tree changes they are ready to upstream for the Linux 7.4 merge window happening later this month. Most notable is the initial Device Tree for Apple systems using the base M4 SoC model as well as for the MacBook Neo with the A18 Pro SoC...
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      Intel Ready With A Big Improvement For Battlemage With Linux 7.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 October 2026

    Sent out on Thursday was the last round of planned Intel Xe kernel driver improvements targeting the upcoming Linux 7.4 cycle. There is one big improvement that is set to benefit Intel discrete GPUs with at least Battlemage benefiting nicely...
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      Ubuntu Working On SHA3 For Debian's APT For If/When SHA2 Is Broken

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 October 2026

    Ubuntu developer Gianpiero Carpinelli at Canonical has been working on introducing SHA3-256 and SHA3-384 support for Debian's APT packaging tool in preparing for if/when that SHA2 is broken...
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      Steam On Linux Dives Down To 3.05% For September

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 October 2026

    Steam on Linux use in March hit an all-time high of around 5.33% marketshare. Since then it pulled back to around 4% while for September 2026 the Steam Survey results are now in and it's clocking in just above 3%...
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      Fedora 45 Beta Performance: The Satisfyingly Boring Benchmarks

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 October 2026

    While there have been a number of Ubuntu 26.10 development benchmarks in recent weeks and more on the way, some Phoronix readers have asked about the lack of any early Fedora 45 tests given its recent beta. For good reason, it's largely boring but here are some to illustrate.
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      Mesa Drops Its Poorly Maintained & Rarely Used Direct3D 10 User-Mode Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 October 2026

    Back in 2021 the Direct3D 10 User-Mode Driver "d3d10umd" was introduced as a new Gallium3D state tracker to work as a Windows WDDM UMD driver similar to Windows WARP while leveraging LLVMpipe for better performance. Now five years later the poorly maintained code is removed from the Mesa codebase...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 Beta Released With Linux 7.3 Kernel, GNOME 51 Desktop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 October 2026

    Ubuntu 26.10 beta is now available for the official Ubuntu editions as well as the various community flavors...