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      AMDGPU Driver For Linux 7.1 Preps Debug Improvements, New Hardware IP

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 March 2026

    Another round of AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver improvements were sent out this week as feature development for DRM-Next ahead of Linux 7.1 begins to wind down...
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      Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Beta Released: Powered By Linux 7.0 + GNOME 50 + Mesa 26.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 March 2026

    Right on schedule the beta for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is now available for testing. This is a great opportunity to help test this release ahead of the official Long Term Support release due out on 23 April...
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      KDE's KWin Compositor Lands First Step Toward Vulkan Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 March 2026

    Merged today was the very first step toward implementing Vulkan support within KDE's KWin compositor as an alternative to OpenGL rendering...
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      Open-Source Nouveau Performance With Linux 7.0 + NVK Mesa 26.1-dev vs. NVIDIA Linux Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 March 2026

    As a few months have passed since our prior round of testing the fully open-source NVIDIA Linux driver stack with the Nouveau kernel driver and Mesa NVK Vulkan driver plus Zink, here is a fresh round of benchmarks using Linux 7.0 and Mesa 26.1-dev compared to the open-source stack shipped by Ubuntu 25.10 (Linux 6.17 + Mesa 25.2) for showing how far the open-source NVIDIA driver has progressed the past few months. Plus testing against the NVIDIA official Linux graphics driver for putting that Nouveau/NVK performance into perspective.
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      Ubuntu Will Switch To ntpd-rs As Its Next Rust System Component

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 March 2026

    Canonical engineers are planning a switch to ntpd-rs as the newest Rust-based system component for Ubuntu Linux for handling time synchronization...
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      AMD Announces The Ryzen 9 9950X3D2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 March 2026

    AMD this morning finally announced the long-rumored Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 flagship processor with 3D V-Cache for both of the CCDs...
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      Intel Xe Driver In Linux 7.1 Enabling THP For Device Pages As A Big SVM Win

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 March 2026

    Sent out today was a new batch of "drm-xe-next" material of Intel Xe kernel graphics driver improvements ready for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel cycle. Standing out in this pull is enabling Transparent Hugepages (THP) support for drm_pagemap as a big win for those making use of Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) for GPU compute and the like...
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      Fedora 45 Aims For IPv6-Mostly Support Out-Of-The-Box

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 March 2026

    One of the early features for Fedora 45 that was approved this week is enabling IPv6-mostly support within NetworkManager for a more modern out-of-the-box network experience...
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      NXP Neutron NPU Kernel Driver Blocked For Now By A Closed-Source User-Space Blob

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 March 2026

    Last month NXP posted open-source Linux kernel driver patches for their Neutron NPU accelerator. The NXP Neutron NPU aims to help with edge AI applications and this neural processing unit is found in their different SoCs. Unfortunately, their GitHub repository for the user-space software ends up containing a binary-only blob that will end up delaying plans on getting this driver into the mainline Linux kernel...