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      An Early Run With Ubuntu 26.04 On AMD EPYC Turin - The Current Performance Gains Over Ubuntu 24.04 LTS

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 January 2026

    There still are several months to go until the official Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release -- including one month until the feature freeze and the future Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel is expected to land too before the latter kernel freeze in early April. But for those curious how Ubuntu 26.04 is looking so far for servers, here are some very early benchmarks of it on AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" in its present development state. The main motivation here for this early look was stemming from the recent rolling-release CachyOS benchmarks on AMD EPYC and wanting to see how it goes up against the current development state of Ubuntu Linux.
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      New RADV Code Can Deliver 10x Faster Ray-Tracing Pipeline Compilation For Some Games

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 January 2026

    A new merge request opened today for Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" by Valve contractor Natalie Vock provides another significant boost for the Vulkan ray-tracing performance in multiple titles...
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      GlobalFoundries Acquires Synopsys ARC Processor IP, To Be Integrated Into MIPS

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 January 2026

    Last year GlobalFoundries acquired MIPS while an interesting new development announced today is that GlobalFoundries has acquired the ARC Processor IP and its solutions business from Synopsys. The Synopsys ARC Processor IP will be brought into the MIPS umbrella...
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      Fedora Games Lab Approved To Switch To KDE Plasma, Become A Better Linux Gaming Showcase

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 January 2026

    Back in December we reported on drafted plans for revitalizing Fedora Games Lab to be a modern Linux gaming showcase. This Fedora Labs initiative has featured some open-source games paired with an Xfce desktop while moving forward they are looking to better position it as a modern Linux gaming showcase...
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      $99 BeaglePlay Board Achieves "100% Open-Source" Upstream PowerVR Graphics

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 January 2026

    Going back many years Imagination PowerVR graphics were widely despised by open-source enthusiasts and Linux desktop users for their lack of an open-source GPU driver. But over the past few years the Imagination PowerVR driver focused on their Rogue graphics IP has matured nicely within the Linux kernel and the PowerVR Vulkan driver in Mesa taking shape too. Paired with Zink for OpenGL over Vulkan, there's a robust open-source PowerVR graphics experience now possible. For those interested in trying out said open-source driver stack, the TI AM62-powered BeaglePlay is an affordable way of doing so for that $99 USD single board computer...
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      GNOME Mutter 50 Alpha Released With X11 Backend Removed

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 January 2026

    In preparing for the GNOME 50 Alpha release, the "50.alpha" tags just occurred for the Mutter compositor and GNOME Shell. Most notable with GNOME Mutter 50 Alpha is the X11 back-end indeed being removed to focus exclusively on the Wayland session...
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      Linux 7.0 To Focus Just On Full & Lazy Preemption Models For Up-To-Date CPU Archs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 January 2026

    A Linux scheduler patch queued up into a TIP branch this past week further restrict is the preemption modes that will be advertised. With it hitting the "sched/core" branch, it will likely be submitted for the upcoming Linux 7.0 (or alternatively, what could be known as Linux 6.20 instead)...
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      Intel Panther Lake GSC Firmware Published Ahead Of Laptop Availability

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 January 2026

    While Intel has been upstreaming various Panther Lake firmware bits to linux-firmware.git for pairing with their open-source kernel drivers ahead of Core Ultra Series 3 laptops shipping, one piece of the puzzle only published today is the GSC firmware for the Panther Lake graphics...
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      Intel Compute Runtime Updated With Initial Crescent Island & Nova Lake S Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 January 2026

    The Intel Compute Runtime 26.01.36711.4 was published today as their first release of 2026 for this open-source GPU compute stack providing Level Zero and OpenCL support across their range of graphics hardware going back to Tiger Lake. Notable with this new Compute Runtime release is having now production-ready Panther Lake support while also introducing early support for next-generation hardware...