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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...
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      New Linux Patches Allow Preserving Apple Mac Backlight Brightness Across Reboots

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 February 2026

    A nice, overdue usability improvement is on the way for those using Apple Macs under Linux. Finally there will be the ability to preserve the same backlight brightness across reboots under Linux...
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      "DHEI" Proposed For Linux To Help Cloud-Native Orchestrators & High Frequency Traders

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 February 2026

    Sent out today as a request for comments is a new patch series for Dynamic Housekeeping and Enhanced Isolation (DHEI). DHEI aims to provide run-time adjustments to kernel behavior around CPU isolation for helping with latency-sensitive tasks. The expressed goal is for helping cloud-native orchestrators and high frequency trading platforms dynamically re-partition CPU resources without downtime...
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      Latest VirtualBox Code Begins Supporting KVM Backend

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 February 2026

    As of this week Oracle's latest VirtualBox development code begins to work with Linux's native KVM back-end. Support for KVM or other native OS hypervisors in conjunction with VirtualBox has long been sought and it's finally becoming a reality...
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      GTK Developers Working On Session Saving Support & Better Accessibility This Year

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 February 2026

    GTK toolkit developers met in Brussels once again for their annual hackfest during FOSDEM week...
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      Qualcomm QUPv3 Firmware Upstreamed For Snapdragon X1 Elite Linux Users

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 February 2026

    One of the headaches right now when dealing with the Snapdragon X Elite on Linux is that for a majority of the devices you need to fetch firmware files from the Windows 11 on ARM partition as the necessary firmware bits for Linux use aren't upstreamed to linux-firmware.git. That has gradually improved over time from the qcom-firmware-extract making the process easier to more firmware bits eventually being added to linux-firmware.git...
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      3mdeb Talks Up AMD openSIL & Open-Source Firmware Efforts For Confidential Compute

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 February 2026

    Engineers Michał Żygowski and Piotr Król of open-source firmware consulting firm 3mdeb presented at FOSDEM in Brussels on open-source for confidential compute infrastructure. With Intel not making strides to fully open-up their FSP package, the talk was centered around the modern AMD open-source firmware efforts led by their openSIL initiative for open-source CPU silicon initialization to replace AGESA in the Zen 6 timeframe...