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      Linux 6.19 Sees Last Minute Scheduler Regression Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 February 2026

    Ahead of the planned Linux 6.19 stable kernel release tomorrow, there have been some last-minute fixes submitted for the scheduler code, including for performance regressions...
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      Mesa 25.3.5 Brings Vulkan Driver Fixes & Other Minor Changes -- Even For Old The R600g

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 February 2026

    While Mesa 26.0 stable will be out soon, the belated Mesa 25.3.5 point release is now available for serving as the current latest stable point release...
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      KDE Plasma 6.6 Fixing Significant Issues With Fingerprint Authentication

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 February 2026

    There is less than two weeks to go until the official KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop release. Plasma 6.6 is still seeing bug fixes in this final stretch of development while KDE developers are also busy already on Plasma 6.7 feature work...
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      Wine 11.2 Released With More Improvements & 32 Bug Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 February 2026

    Wine 11.2 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release in the road toward the Wine 12.0 stable release next January...
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      ML-LIB: Machine Learning Library Proposed For The Linux Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 February 2026

    Sent out today as a request for comments (RFC) by a Linux kernel engineer employed by IBM is a machine learning library for the Linux kernel. The intent is on plugging in running ML models to the Linux kernel that could be used for system performance optimizations and various other purposes...
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      Toyota Developing A Console-Grade, Open-Source Game Engine - Using Flutter & Dart

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 February 2026

    Well, here's an unexpected combination... Toyota's Toyota Connected North America unit is developing a console-grade open-source game engine. Making it even more unusual is their engineering choices of building around the Flutter toolkit and in turn the Dart programming language. This new game engine creation is called Fluorite...
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      VRR Improvements Merged To GNOME 50 For Lower Latency, Wayland Commit Timing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 February 2026

    While just missing out on the recent Mutter 50 beta release, merged today to Mutter Git ahead of next month's GNOME 50 desktop release are some improvements to the Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) support...
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      Pushing The Intel Panther Lake CPU Performance Further On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 February 2026

    Earlier this week I published the first Linux benchmarks of Intel's much anticipated Panther Lake with the Core Ultra X7 358H 16-core 18A processor. The Panther Lake SoC showed very nice generational gains especially with much better performance-per-Watt and the Intel Arc B390 graphics are also fascinatingly fast while continuing to be backed by open-source drivers. In today's article are more Panther Lake Linux benchmarks on the CPU side in looking at the performance potential when pushing the Core Ultra X7 358H with a higher power budget.
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      AMD Introduces New GPU Target To AMDGPU LLVM: GFX1170 "RDNA 4m"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 February 2026

    In addition to their ongoing AMDGPU LLVM compiler back-end work for upcoming GFX1250 and recently the GFX13 target for their graphics IP, today AMD compiler engineers introduced a new "GFX1170" target to the LLVM codebase that is also called RDNA 4m...