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      Linux 7.0 Aims To Replace More Caching Code With Sheaves For "Hopefully" Improved Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 February 2026

    Introduced to the mainline Linux kernel last year was "sheaves" as an opt-in per-CPU array-based caching layer. Sheaves was merged back in Linux 6.18 and while it started as an opt-in caching layer, the plan is to replace more CPU slabs / caches with sheaves. Queued up for slated introduction in the upcoming Linux 7.0 cycle is replacing more of those caches with sheaves...
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      Shotcut Video Editor Now Using Hardware Decoding By Default Except For NVIDIA On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 January 2026

    Shotcut 26.1 is now available as the latest feature update to this open-source and cross-platform video editing solution. Shotcut 26.1 is finally defaulting to GPU hardware accelerated video decoding by default for all platforms sans NVIDIA GPUs on Linux...
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      Phosh Mobile Phone UI Making Progress On GTK4 Port

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 January 2026

    Evangelos Ribeiro Tzaras presented today at FOSDEM on the latest work around Phosh, the mobile phone user interface / Wayland shell project for mobile Linux environments. Phosh has been making steady progress and has more features out on the horizon...
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      Budgie 10.10.1 Released With Better Stability & Improved Labwc Integration

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 January 2026

    Following the Budgie 10.10 release from earlier this month, Budgie 10.10.1 is now here for closing out January...
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      Linuxulator-Steam-Utils To Enjoy Steam Play Gaming On FreeBSD & Other Options

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 January 2026

    Presented today at FOSDEM in Brussels was the state of gaming on FreeBSD by Thibault Payet. Besides various open-source games able to be compiled natively for FreeBSD, this BSD can get in on the Steam Play gaming scene thanks to the "linuxulator-steam-utils" project as a set of workarounds for the Steam Linux client on FreeBSD 14 and newer. Linuxulator-steam-utils builds off FreeBSD's Linuxulator support for running Linux binaries to enjoy the likes of Steam and even Steam Play (Proton) Windows games running on this translation layer for Linux and in turn running on FreeBSD...
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      GNOME 50 Is No Longer Treating Variable Rate Refresh "VRR" As Experimental

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 January 2026

    Another great albeit overdue improvement for GNOME 50 has landed: Variable Rate Refresh "VRR" functionality for modern displays is now promoted and no longer treated as an experimental feature...
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      Plasma 6.7 Restoring The Air Plasma Theme, Fixes KWin Issue With Intense Alt+Tab'ing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 January 2026

    KDE Plasma developers remain quite busy preparing for the Plasma 6.6 desktop release coming up in a little more than two weeks while at the same time continuing to land early features for the Plasma 6.7 release coming later in the year...
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      The Last Of The Dolby Digital Plus "E-AC3" Patents Might Now Be Expired

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 January 2026

    For those interested in the Dolby Digital Plus "Enhanced AC-3" audio compression format for open-source software, the last of the patents for this widely-used format by streaming services and more appears to have expired...
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      GTK Developers Plot Improvements To Tackle This Year - Possible Opt-In Unstable API

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 January 2026

    GNOME developers had a busy week in preparing for the GNOME 50 beta release, many GNOME developers attending FOSDEM this weekend in Brussels, and other happenings...