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      Intel Thermal Daemon 2.5.11 Released With Wildcat Lake Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 January 2026

    With Intel Panther Lake now shipping, open-source Intel engineers working on the client side are turning to tidying up support for their next target: Wildcat Lake. That more cost effective alternative to Panther Lake now has Intel Thermal Daemon support in getting ready for Linux desktops/laptops...
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      NVIDIA VA-API Driver 0.0.15 Released With A Few Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 January 2026

    The NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.15 was released overnight as this VA-API driver implementation built atop NVIDIA's NVDEC interface used by their proprietary user-space driver stack. The purpose of NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver as this community open-source project continues to be around enabling video acceleration for NVIDIA GPUs with the Firefox web browser on Linux that supports the VA-API interface but not NVIDIA's NVDEC...
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      GNU gettext Reaches Version 1.0 After 30+ Years In Development - Adds LLM Features

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 January 2026

    Sun Microsystems began developing gettext in the early 1990s and the GNU Project began GNU gettext development in 1995 for this widely-used internationalization and localization system commonly for multi-lingual integration. While GNU gettext is commonly used by countless open-source projects and adapted for many different programming languages, only an hour ago was GNU gettext 1.0 finally released...
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      Wasmer 7.0 Released For Advancing WebAssembly On The Desktop & Anywhere

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 January 2026

    Wasmer 7.0 is out today for this WebAssembly "WASM" run-time for enabling lightweight containers that can run "anywhere" from the desktop to cloud and the edge. The security-minded and extensible WASM runtime provided by Wasmer has already proven to be quite robust while with Wasmer 7.0 has become even more featureful...
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      GNOME 50 Finally Lands Improved Discrete GPU Detection

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 January 2026

    The upcoming release of GNOME 50 to be found in the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 44 will feature improved discrete GPU detection within the GNOME Shell. This effort has been two years coming and finally merged this week...
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      Mesa 26.0-rc2 Released With Numerous AMD, NVIDIA & Intel Driver Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 January 2026

    Following last week's code branching / feature freeze and first release candidate of Mesa 26.0, Mesa 26.0-rc2 is now available with an initial batch of bug fixes for this quarter's feature update to these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers...
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      FreeType Speeds-Up ClearType-Like LCD Filter Rendering By 40%

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 January 2026

    The widely-used FreeType library used for rendering text onto bitmaps has landed a significant optimization for its LCD filtering code path for Microsoft ClearType-like rendering. Thanks to the improvement, the rendering can be around 40% faster...
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      AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Linux Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 January 2026

    Ahead of tomorrow's official availability of the AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D at $499 USD, today the review embargo lifted. This faster variant to the existing Ryzen 7 9800X3D has been undergoing lots of Linux benchmarking the past two weeks for seeing the performance capabilities of this fastest 8-core 3D V-Cache processor.
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      Mesa NVK Driver Temporarily Disabling Support For Larger Pages Due To Bug

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 January 2026

    Upstreamed to the Nouveau open-source kernel driver in Linux 6.19 was support for larger pages and with that compression support available with the larger page sizes. Subsequently the Mesa NVK open-source Vulkan driver began making use of the larger pages and compressed image support dependent upon the larger page sizes as it should help with performance. But for now it's being temporarily disabled due to a discovered issue...