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      Archinstall 4.0 Released For Improved Arch Linux Installer Using Textual UI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 March 2026

    Archinstall 4.0 is out today and just in time for the April 1 monthly refresh to the Arch Linux installer. With Archinstall 4.0, this Arch Linux OS installer is now using the Textual TUI library rather than the Curses library...
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      AMD Improves GPU Support Under WSL With Production Open-Source ROCDXG

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 March 2026

    For those wanting to make use of Linux GPU compute software under Windows 11 by way of Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2), AMD's ROCDXG "librocdxg" library is now deemed production-ready for delivering open-source ROCm compatibility with WSL...
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      AMD Sends Out Linux Patches For Their Next-Gen AIE4 NPU

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 March 2026

    Hitting the mailing list today are patches providing initial support for AMD's next-gen NPU "AIE4" platform, complete with SR-IOV support...
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      Ubuntu 26.04 Showing Nice Gains Over Ubuntu 25.10 On AMD Ryzen 9000 Series

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 March 2026

    While having the new System76 Thelio Mira in the lab I ran some benchmarks of Ubuntu 24.04 LTS vs. 26.04 development on that AMD Ryzen 9000 series powered desktop. Those results were interesting for how the Ubuntu performance has changed over the past two years, but even if drilling down to just the past six months there have been some nice gains on the AMD Zen 5 desktop. In this article is a look at how Ubuntu 26.04 in its near-final state is performing relative to Ubuntu 25.10 with this Ryzen 9 9950X desktop.
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      Coreboot 26.03 Released With Support For Intel Panther Lake

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 March 2026

    Coreboot 26.03 was christened today as the newest quarterly feature release for this open-source system firmware implementation that strives to replace proprietary BIOS/firmware. Most notable with Coreboot 26.03 is full support for Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake SoCs...
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      Open-Source RadeonSI+Rusticl Nearing Formal OpenCL 3.0 Conformance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 March 2026

    The open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver with Rusticl for modern Rust-based OpenCL is nearing formal OpenCL 3.0 conformance with all necessary OpenCL test cases passing. Making this all the more interesting is that this is the first modern AMD graphics hardware in a decade likely to see formal recognition for OpenCL conformance with AMD having not submitted any of their own OpenCL conformance results since 2015...
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      Intel FRED Appears Ready To Enable By Default With Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 March 2026

    Last week I ran benchmarks quantify the performance benefit to Intel FRED for Flexible Return and Event Delivery initially found with the new Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" processors and also for upcoming Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids CPUs. The FRED performance impact was very beneficial across a variety of workloads but rather strangely was not enabled by default. Mere hours after publishing that article, an Intel engineer posted a patch to enable FRED by default. Now this week that patch appears all-set for merging with the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window...
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      RVCC Proposed As An LLVM Incubator For High Performance RISC-V Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 March 2026

    A proposal was submitted today for launching the RISC-V Compiler Collaboration "RVCC" as an LLVM Incubator project to focus on compiler optimizations for better performance on RISC-V. But before getting too excited, there is already some opposition to the proposal...
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      Ubuntu MATE Leader Stepping Down, Seeking New Contributors

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 March 2026

    After starting and leading the Ubuntu MATE flavor since 2014, Martin Wimpress announced he's looking to step down from leading this flavor of Ubuntu Linux with the MATE desktop environment. He's hoping for new passionate contributors to keep it going...