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      Pop!_OS 24.04 vs. Ubuntu 24.04 LTS vs. Ubuntu 26.04 Development Benchmarks

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 March 2026

    While having the new System76 Thelio Mira desktop in the lab, I took the opportunity to run some benchmarks to see how Pop!_OS 24.04 is currently performing relative to Ubuntu 24.04 LTS for which it is based as well as looking ahead at how Ubuntu 26.04 LTS in its current near-final development form is looking on the same hardware.
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      NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux Driver Debuts As Stable R595 Build

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 March 2026

    Building off the NVIDIA 595.45.04 Linux beta driver that brought DRI3 v1.2 support and new Vulkan capabilities, the NVIDIA 595.58.03 Linux driver released this morning as the first stable Linux driver build in the R595 release branch...
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      Blender Optimization Leads To Twice As Fast Performance With CPU Bottlenecked Scenes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 March 2026

    Proposed code for Blender's EEVEE engine can lead to both the OpenGL and Vulkan performance doubling in instancing-heavy scenes that are CPU bottlenecked...
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      Krita 6.0 Released With Qt6 Port & Better Wayland Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 March 2026

    Krita 6.0 debuted today as the Qt6 port of this digital painting program aligned with KDE/Qt development. Krita 6.0 also brings improved Wayland support while Krita 5.3 is being simultaneously released for running on the mature Qt5 toolkit...
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      Linux 7.1 To Overcome Reporting Limitation For Multiple Batteries Per HID Device

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 March 2026

    A limitation affecting various gaming headsets, graphic tablets, wireless earbuds, multi-device receivers and more with Linux has been not being able to report multiple batteries per HID device. After patches were proposed last year for dealing with the increasingly common scenario these days of having multiple batteries per device, the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel is set to address this limitation...
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      OpenBLAS 0.3.32 Brings Improved Detection Of Newer Intel CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 March 2026

    OpenBLAS 0.3.32 is now available for this optimized open-source Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms "BLAS" library. Notable with the OpenBLAS 0.3.32 release is improving CPU auto-detection for newer Intel processors...
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      Additional AMD RDNA 4m GPU Targets Coming: GFX1171 & GFX1172

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 March 2026

    Back in February AMD engineers introduced a new GFX1170 GPU target in LLVM for their AMDGPU shader compiler and was marked with new "RDNA 4m" branding. It's part of the GFX11 family associated with RDNA3 but carrying this new "4m" branding. In follow-up commits they made further ISA changes distinguishing it from existing RDNA 3 GPUs. Now there are two more RDNA 4m targets being added...
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      NVIDIA Talks Up "Expanding The Open-Source Horizon" Around AI & Kubernetes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 March 2026

    KubeCon Europe is running this week in Amsterdam and NVIDIA used the event to talk up their open-source work around AI and newest open-source contributions...
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      GTK3 Toolkit Winding Down To One Release Per Year

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 March 2026

    The GTK 4.0 toolkit released in December 2020 while the GTK3 toolkit has continued to be maintained given a lot of software still relying on that older version. GTK 3.24.52 was released yesterday and with this version it's now shifting its release cadence to just one new update per year...