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      KDE Plasma 6.6 Delivers An Impressive Edge For Radeon Graphics Over GNOME 50 On Ubuntu 26.04

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 March 2026

    In testing thus far on Ubuntu 26.04, the KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop with the Wayland session is working pretty darn well and delivering a performance edge across many games/graphics workloads compared to the default GNOME 50 desktop. At least as far as AMD Radeon graphics are concerned, Plasma 6.6 is in quite impressive shape for the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release.
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      Intel Announces Arc Pro B70 With 32GB GDDR6 Video Memory

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 March 2026

    Alongside announcing the new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 Panther Lake parts with vPro for commercial PCs and the Xeon 600 workstation processors, Intel finally announced their professional "big Battlemage" BMG-G31 graphics card with the Arc Pro B70 as well as the Arc Pro B65...
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      FreeCAD 1.1 Brings Many Improvements For Open-Source CAD

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 March 2026

    FreeCAD 1.1 is out today as the newest feature release for this leading open-source CAD application...
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      Lemonade 10.0.1 Improves Setup Process For Using AMD Ryzen AI NPUs On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 March 2026

    Earlier this month with the release of the Lemonade SDK 10.0 and FastFlowLM 0.9.35, using AMD Ryzen AI NPUs for running LLMs on Linux finally became feasible. AMD XDNA 2 NPUs can now run on Linux well for LLM workloads! Released on Tuesday was Lemonade 10.0.1 with a few improvements for the setup process of this local LLM open-source solution on Linux...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 Looks To Strip Its GRUB Bootloader To The Bare Minimum For Better Security

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 March 2026

    Ubuntu developers at Canonical are looking to strip the signed GRUB bootloader features to the bare minimum for the Ubuntu 26.10 release later this year. Dropping support for XFS, ZFS, Btrfs, LVM, md-raid (except RAID1), LUKS-encrypted disks, and other features is being looked at in the name of security...
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      Mesa 26.0 Will Make It In Time For The Fedora 44 Release

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 March 2026

    With the recent Fedora 44 beta release, Mesa 25.3 graphics drivers were in use rather than the newest Mesa 26.0 series. The good news is that there is now approval for getting Mesa 26.0 drivers to land in time for next month's official Fedora 44 release...
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      Unvanquished 0.56 Released With More Renderer Improvements, OpenMP Added To Engine

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 March 2026

    Unvanquished 0.56 is out today as the latest major update to this prominent open-source, community-driven shooter game. Unvanquished continues progressing after more than a decade in development for this open-source game and with today's v0.56 release features improved visuals, OpenMP for CPU-based rendering of skeletal models, and other enhancements...
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      Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands New Feature To Boost DX12 Game Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 March 2026

    Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver for Linux systems enabled a new feature called BTP+BTI RCC Keying. You may be wondering what it means or stands for, but long story short it helps with the performance of Direct3D 12 (DX12) games running on Linux by way of Valve's Steam Play with Proton + VKD3D-Proton...
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      Oracle Releases Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8.2 - Still On Linux 6.12 LTS Base

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 March 2026

    Days after Oracle celebrated their RHEL-based Oracle Linux distribution turning 20 years old, today they announced Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8.2 "UEK 8.2" as their alternative to the RHEL-clone kernel with Oracle Linux...