• chevron_right

      SDL Lands HDR10 Rendering Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 July 2026

    Sam Lantinga of Valve and SDL fame has landed HDR10 rendering support into the Simple DirectMedia Library...
    • chevron_right

      COSMIC Epoch 1.4 Released With More Fixes, Force Quit For COSMIC Monitor

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 July 2026

    System76 developers today released COSMIC Epoch 1.4 as the newest stable release to their Rust-based desktop environment...
    • chevron_right

      AMD EPYC Turin With PCIe 5.0 Storage Shows Off Nice Gains On Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 July 2026

    Earlier this week was an exciting look at Intel Xe3 graphics performance gains on Linux 7.2 with Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" hardware. On the other side of the table, with AMD hardware on this forthcoming kernel an area to be excited about are some I/O improvements at least for 5th Gen EPYC with speedy PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD storage.
    • chevron_right

      libx11-compat Is Working To Implement Xlib Atop SDL For Wayland, macOS, Android

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 July 2026

    For helping to keep X11 clients running in a modern Linux desktop world with Wayland or even for running on macOS or Android, there is now yet-another option being developed with libx11-compat. The libx11-compat project is working to re-implement the Xlib client library atop SDL2/SDL3 interfaces for allow broad underlying platform coverage...
    • chevron_right

      Intel Directed Package-Level Thermal Interrupts Slated For Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 July 2026

    Back in March Intel software engineers began sending out Linux patches for Directed Package-Level Thermal Interrupts as a new capability with recent Intel processors. This notable efficiency improvement is now queued for introduction in the Linux 7.3 cycle once its merge window opens in a month...
    • chevron_right

      The "New Normal" Of Audio Quirks Submitted For Linux 7.2-rc5

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 July 2026

    Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE sent out this week's batch of sound fixes that he describes as "A collection of fixes that have been accumulated recently. The amount is still "new normal", but all small fixes. Mostly hardware-specific quirks, but including a few core fixes, too." The "new normal" has been a common phrase recently to reflect the increased tempo of patches as well as security/bug disclosures all due to the increased pace of AI/LLM activity...
    • chevron_right

      Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 10-Inch Model Launches

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 July 2026

    Following the launch of the 7-inch Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 and the 5-inch display variant, Raspberry Pi announced today the addition of a 10-inch model...
    • chevron_right

      Cryptsetup 2.8.7 Released To Deal With Fallout Of Linux's Rushed AF_ALG Deprecation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 July 2026

    Linux's cryptsetup for configuring and managing encrypted storage devices is ready with a new version as the developers work to deal with the recent deprecation of the Linux AF_ALG interface...
    • chevron_right

      Three New Ubuntu Snap Vulnerabilities Made Public - One Dates Back To Ubuntu 16.04 LTS

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 July 2026

    Canonical today disclosed three new Snap security vulnerabilities affecting snapd. Two are rated high impact vulnerabilities while the third is considered medium but covers all Ubuntu releases of the past decade going back to Ubuntu 16.04 LTS...