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      GIMP Post-3.2 Will Be Looking At Hardware Acceleration, Full CMYK & More

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February 2026

    With GIMP 3.2 releasing soon, GIMP developer Ondřej Míchal presented at FOSDEM 2026 this past weekend on some of the feature work being eyed for post-3.2 developments...
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      Intel Driver Disabling Vulkan Video Encode On Newer Hardware Due To Insufficient Testing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February 2026

    While Vulkan Video is a cross-vendor, cross-platform video encode and decode API that is beginning to gain traction by multimedia applications and frameworks, the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver has for now taken a step-back on its encode support with newer hardware. Newer Intel graphics hardware is seeing Vulkan Video encode support disabled due to insufficient testing...
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      GNU Coreutils 9.10 Released With Many Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February 2026

    Earlier this week Rust Coreutils 0.6 released while out today is GNU Coreutils 9.10 as the de facto standard for this set of core utilities on Linux systems and other platforms...
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      LibreOffice 26.2 Released With Many Refinements To This Open-Source Office Suite

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February 2026

    LibreOffice 26.2 is now officially released as the newest half-year update to this leading open-source and cross-platform free software office suite...
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      One Line Fix Coming For Achieving Better Linux Performance On The HP OMEN 8E41 Laptop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February 2026

    A one-line patch to the HP WMI x86 platform driver for Linux was posted for allowing the HP OMEN Transcend Gaming Laptop 14-fb1xxx to correctly hit its rated TDP limit for allowing better performance outside of the Microsoft Windows confines...
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      libinput 1.31 Bringing Support For Fast Three-Finger Swipes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February 2026

    Linux input expert Peter Hutterer of Red Hat announced today the first release candidate of libinput 1.31, the input handling library used by both modern X.Org Server and Wayland desktop environments...
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      AMD Expands FPGA Offerings With Mid-Range Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February 2026

    AMD announced today an expansion of their FPGA prodict line-up with the Kintex UltraScale+ Gen 2 for "intelligent, high performance systems" for medical, industrial, and other fields...
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      Leveraging urunc For Efficiently Running BSD Applications In Linux Environments

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 February 2026

    While there is the Linuxulator as a kernel-level solution on FreeBSD for running unmodified Linux binaries that can even work for gaming on FreeBSD, running BSD applications on Linux isn't talked about as much. But developers have found that for those wanting to run BSD applications in Linux environments, the urunc lightweight container runtime can work out rather well for efficiently handling BSD apps on Linux...
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      NVIDIA DLSS For Blender Under Review But Licensing Concerns Persist

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 February 2026

    A few months ago at SIGGRAPH was a demo of Blender with NVIDIA Deep Learning Super Sampling (DLSS) integration. The pull request is now open for landing NVIDIA DLSS support into Blender for better quality upscaling/denoising and performance but concerns persist over the licensing due to NVIDIA DLSS binaries...