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      IBM Collaborating With Arm For Dual-Architecture Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 April 2026

    IBM announced today a strategic collaboration with Arm around new dual-architecture hardware...
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      CentOS Launches Accelerated Infrastructure Enablement For Driving NVIDIA AI Factories

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 April 2026

    The CentOS project has established the Accelerated Infrastructure Enablement "AIE" special interest group with a focus on providing a "fast lane" for "in-flight" patches. This CentOS AIE SIG is particularly focused on carrying the code needed for enabling NVIDIA AI factories...
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      Proposed Wine Code Uses Zink For OpenGL-On-Vulkan By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 April 2026

    A CodeWeavers engineer opened a merge request yesterday for Wine to use Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver by default. This would build Zink as a Windows Portable Executable (PE) for allowing OpenGL to go straight to the Vulkan API with the host Vulkan drivers...
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      KTransformers Adds AVX2 MoE Support For Viable Performance On CPUs Without AMX/AVX-512

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 April 2026

    KTransformers 0.5.3 released today for this framework for efficient inferencing and fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) with a focus on CPU-GPU heterogeneous computing. With this release, KTransformers 0.5.3 is now more applicable for CPUs lacking Advanced Matrix Extensions (AMX) and AVX-512 in now providing some AVX2-only kernels too...
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      Libinput Hit By Worrying Security Issues With Its Lua Plug-In System

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 April 2026

    Libinput devised a Lua-based plug-in system for modifying devices/events. The Lua plug-in support was introduced last year with libinput 1.30 but unfortunately some security issues have now come to light with the implementation...
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      Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 April 2026

    If Valve's latest Steam Survey monthly figures are accurate, Steam on Linux enjoyed a very wild month of March. Steam on Linux is now above the 5% threshold and more than twice the size of the Steam on macOS marketshare...
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      AMD GPU Driver Sees DC Idle Manager & Multi-SDMA Engine Optimization For Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 April 2026

    With Linux 7.0-rc6 having released on Sunday, we are hitting the point of the cut-off of new feature material being allowed into the Direct Rendering Manager's DRM-Next tree of queuing new graphics/display/accelerator feature code ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window. As presumably the last AMDGPU/AMDKFD feature pull ahead of Linux 7.1, today's pull request from AMD contains some noteworthy final enhancements...
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      Fedora Rejects Proposal To Use systemd For Managing Per-User Environment Variables

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 April 2026

    The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee "FESCo" this week rejected a change proposal for Fedora 45 that would use systemd's environment generator functionality for managing per-user environment variables...
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      NVIDIA Provides Preview Driver With DRM Color Pipeline API Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 April 2026

    Following the DRM Color Pipeline API making it into the Linux 6.19 kernel, NVIDIA today released a preview Linux driver with their support for the DRM per-plane color pipeline API that will benefit the broader Linux/Wayland desktop HDR ambitions...