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      All Fedora 44 KDE Variants To Use Plasma Login Manager Rather Than SDDM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 January 2026

    The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved a Fedora 44 change for switching all KDE variants away from using the SDDM display manager to instead use the newer Plasma Login Manager...
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      Redox OS Begins Developing Its Own Intel Graphics Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 January 2026

    The Rust-written Redox OS operating system had an exciting end to the year as it began developing its own native Intel graphics driver...
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      Transparent Hugepage Performance On Linux 6.18 LTS: Madvise vs. Always

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 January 2026

    With some Linux distributions like Fedora Workstation and Ubuntu defaulting to "madvise" Transparent Hugepages (THP) while others like CachyOS and openSUSE defaulting to "always", you may be curious about the madvise vs. always THP difference in modern Linux environments. If so this round of benchmarking is for you in looking at the performance impact of madvise vs. always THP.
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      Pre-Compiled Headers Being Debated For LLVM/Clang To Speed-Up Build By 1.5~2x

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 January 2026

    LLVM developers and other stakeholders have begun debating the use of pre-compiled headers "PCH" as a means of speeding up the compiulation of the LLVM compiler infrastructure by 1.5x to 2x than with non-PCH builds...
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      Revised Steam Survey For December 2025 Puts Linux Gaming Marketshare At 3.58%

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 January 2026

    Back on the 1st Valve published the Steam Survey results for December 2025 and they put the Linux gaming marketshare at 3.19%, a 0.01% dip from November. But now the December results have been revised with a nice bump to the Linux marketshare...
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      Flatpak Exploring GPU Virtualization To Ease Driver Challenges

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 January 2026

    Open-source developer Sebastian Wick has written a blog post outlining work to improve the graphics driver situation for Flatpaks. Particularly around situations like the NVIDIA driver stack that may depend upon a specific kernel version or where a Flatpak runtime may be end-of-life, dealing with GPU drivers in Flatpaks can be a burden. A solution being explored is GPU virtualization to deal with those GPU driver handling challenges while still providing robust and secure GPU access...
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      Intel Core Ultra X7 358H + 32GB RAM Laptop Around ~$1300 USD

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 January 2026

    Yesterday when Intel formally introduced Panther Lake as the Core Ultra Series 3 with pre-orders set to begin today and available globally later this month, one of the key questions remaining was around pricing... I've been scouting various Internet retailers today and so far have found a Ultra X7 358H model with the 12 Xe cores for the Xe3 integrated graphics to be priced around $1299 USD with 32GB of RAM...
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      AMD Releases GAIA 0.15 - Positioning It As A Framework/SDK For Building AI PC Agents

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 January 2026

    Last year AMD announced GAIA as short for "Generative AI Is Awesome". It started off as a Windows-only AI demo but over time added Linux support along with introducing different AI agents. For going along with AMD's AI announcements at CES 2026, AMD released GAIA 0.15 where they are now positioning this software as a framework/SDK for building AI PC agents...
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      GStreamer 1.28-RC1 Brings A Rust-Based GIF Decoder, Other New Rust Components

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 January 2026

    On Monday the first release candidate of the GStreamer 1.28 multimedia framework was released. As is a recurring focus in recent releases, more GStreamer code is written in Rust for memory safety especially around decoding content...