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      Systemd Founder Lennart Poettering Announces Amutable Company

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January 2026

    Systemd founder and lead developer Lennart Poettering announced the creation of a new company called Amutable. The Amutable company being led by Chris Kühl (CEO), Christian Brauner (CTO) and Lennart Poettering (Chief Engineer) will be focused on delivering determinism and verifiable integrity to Linux systems...
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      TigerVNC 1.16 Released With "w0vncserver" For Sharing Wayland Desktop Sessions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January 2026

    TigerVNC 1.16 is out today for this high performance, multi-platform VNC server and client implementation. Most notable with TigerVNC 1.16 is "w0vncserver" as a new server for sharing Wayland desktops...
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      Zlib-rs Declares A Stable & Complete API For This Rust-Based Zlib Implementation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January 2026

    Following the release of zlib-rs 0.6 last week, the developers behind this Rust-based Zlib implementation have declared their API stable and complete...
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      Xfwl4 Being Developed As New Wayland Compositor For Xfce

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January 2026

    Xfce developers are using their donations from the community to fund a longtime core developer to create Xfwl4, an entirely new Wayland compositor for Xfce...
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      Vulkan VK_EXT_present_timing Merged To Mesa 26.1 For X11 & Wayland

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January 2026

    The Vulkan EXT_present_timing was in development for years to help avoid game stuttering and released this past November with Vulkan 1.4.335. This significant extension as of today has been wired up in Mesa 26.1-devel for the key Vulkan drivers and working on both X11 and Wayland...
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      New Intel Linux Code For DG2 Graphics Can Improve Performance As Much As "A Whopping 260%"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January 2026

    A set of 18 patches were merged overnight to Mesa 26.1 for working around graphics corruption on Meteor Lake and DG2/Alchemist class graphics hardware. Not only are some graphics corruption issues worked around but for that hardware there is as much as "a whopping 260%" performance improvement observed for some graphics workloads...
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      ThinkPads On Linux Appear Nearly Ready For Improved Trackpoint Doubletap Handling

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January 2026

    Being worked on for a while by Lenovo engineer Vishnu Sankar is nicely handling support for double-tap functionality with TrackPoints on ThinkPads under Linux. The sixth iteration of this enablement work was posted today and is just documentation updates, so it's looking like this new TrackPoint doubletap code could soon be crossing the threshold for the mainline Linux kernel...
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      Updated Linux Patches For Managing Out-Of-Memory Behavior Via BPF

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January 2026

    Being worked on since last year by Google engineer Roman Gushchin was the latest attempt for the Linux kernel to support managing the out-of-memory "OOM" behavior using BPF programs. It's been a while since there has been anything new to report on that front but published overnight is the latest iteration of those patches...
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      Picolibc Picks Up RISC-V Improvements, Hexagon Support & Better POSIX Compliance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January 2026

    Keith Packard published Picolibc 1.8.11 on Monday as the newest release for his C library designed for embedded 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. Picolibc continues tacking on new CPU architecture support and other features for this project that started out as a conglomeration of the Newlib and AVR Libc C library codebases...