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      Intel ISPC 1.30 Released With AMX Support Added To The Standard Library

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 February 2026

    Intel ISPC 1.30 is now available as the latest feature update to their Implicit SPMD Program Compiler as a variant of the C programming language to easily target their array of CPUs and GPUs...
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      Linux 7.0 Should Fix Nouveau For The Large Pages Support For Better NVK Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 February 2026

    The Linux 6.19 merge window had introduced support for larger pages and compression with the Nouveau kernel driver, which ultimately should help provide a performance win to this open-source NVIDIA driver. The Mesa NVK driver was ready to make use of that new kernel driver functionality but then it ended up being disabled due to bugs. Fortunately, for the Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel those issues should be resolved so then the Mesa NVK usage of the larger pages / compression support could be restored...
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      System76's COSMIC Desktop Planning Vulkan Renderer, Improved Gaming Experience

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 February 2026

    Following December's release of COSMIC Epoch 1 along with the Pop!_OS 24.04 release by System76, today they shared more of their feature plans for the next two major COSMIC desktop updates...
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      GNOME Shell & Mutter 50 Beta Releases Bring Stable VRR, Improved Frame Scheduling

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 February 2026

    Ahead of the imminent GNOME 50 beta release, the GNOME Shell and Mutter components have declared their "50.beta" releases to ship the latest bug fixes, memory leak fixes, and some last minute improvements ahead of the stable release in March...
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      Microsoft's New Open-Source Project: LiteBox As A Rust-Based Sandboxing Library OS

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February 2026

    Microsoft engineers and other stakeholders have been developing LiteBox as a security-focused library OS written in the Rust programming language and leveraging Linux Virtualization Based Security "LVBS". The design is for LiteBox to operate as a secure kernel protecting the normal guest kernel via virtualization hardware...
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      Debian's Challenge When Its Developers Quietly Drift Away

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February 2026

    You may recall the news last month around no one was left on Debian's data protection team and other volunteer staffing challenges with different Debian efforts in the past. Debian Project Leader Andreas Tille has been looking at the issue of the challenges that arise when Debian's all-volunteer developers quietly drift away either due to time commitments, other interests, or other reasons but don't properly communicate it to the Debian project...
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      Mesa 26.0-rc3 Released With More Graphics Driver Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February 2026

    Eric Engestrom is out with another on-time Mesa release. Mesa 26.0-rc3 provides the latest week's worth of bug fixes as we work toward the stable Mesa 26.0 release as soon as next week...
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      Intel Sends Out Initial Linux Patches For Xe3P_LPG Graphics With Nova Lake P

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February 2026

    In recent months Intel Linux engineers have been quite active in preparing for next-gen Nova Lake processors. That work has included initial Xe3P graphics support and enabling display support and related display/graphics functionality. The newest now is enabling Nova Lake P including the Xe3P_LPG graphics support...
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      Mesa Will Now Prevent Compiling With LTO Due To "Random Impossible-To-Debug Bugs"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February 2026

    While link-time optimizations "LTO" can deliver some nice performance benefits out of this compiler optimization technique, it can make debugging said binaries more challenging. Due to various bugs in Mesa being attributed to the use of compiler link-time optimizations when compiling Mesa, the builds are being blocked on using LTO...