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      Blender 5.1 Delivers Some Nice Gains For CPU Rendering Performance On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 March 2026

    With this week's release of Blender 5.1 I have begun benchmarking it on different CPUs and GPUs. In this article is an initial look at the positive impact Blender 5.1 is having on CPU-based rendering performance on Linux.
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      GNUnet 0.27 Released For Those With "Some Reasonable Pain Tolerance"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 March 2026

    Version 0.27 of GNUnet is now available for this free software framework for constructing decentralized, peer-to-peer networking. But it comes with some big caveats before use...
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      Mozilla Releases Llamafile 0.10 To Enhance Their AI Offering For Easy-To-Use LLMs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 March 2026

    The last release of Llamafile was back in May and it's led me recently to wonder if Mozilla was slowly abandoning this AI project like they had done in the past to DeepSpeech and other software projects. Fortunately, that's not the case and out today is Llamafile 0.10 with some big updates...
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      OpenGL Lands New Extension To Benefit Wine

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 March 2026

    The OpenGL API is still seeing new extensions introduced in 2026. Merged today to the OpenGL Registry is a new extension intended to help Wine usage for 32-bit Windows games/apps on 64-bit Linux systems...
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      Opera GX Web Browser Released For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 March 2026

    It's been a while since most of you probably thought about the Opera web browser, but these days they have been catering their "Opera GX" web browser to gamers. Today they have finally delivered this Opera GX gaming-focused browser for Linux users...
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      Linux 7.1 Should See Working HDMI Support For The Lichee Pi 4A RISC-V Board

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 March 2026

    Drew Fustini sent out DeviceTree patches this past weekend for enabling the HDMI display controller on the T-Head TH1520 RISC-V SoC. Additionally, there's a patch for lighting up the HDMI display support on the LicheePi 4A RISC-V board...
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      Canonical Collecting Wish List Ideas For Improving Mir

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 March 2026

    With Ubuntu 26.04 LTS quickly approaching release next week, Canonical is beginning more of their road-mapping for Ubuntu 26.10 and beyond. To help in plotting future work, Canonical is interested in feedback for features or improvements that developers/users would like to see around their Mir project...
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      Virtual Swap Space Patches Updated For Improving Linux's Swap Design

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 March 2026

    The fourth iteration of patches implementing Virtual Swap Space for Linux were sent out on Wednesday. This stems from ideas going back years for an abstraction to better separate a swap entry from its physical backing storage...
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      AMD Prototyping AMDGPU SVM Atop DRM_GPUSVM Framework

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 March 2026

    AMD engineers are experimenting with a proof-of-concept implementation of a Shared Virtual Memory (SVM) implementation atop the DRM_GPUSVM framework...