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      openSUSE Seeking Additional Corporate Sponsors

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 July 2026

    While openSUSE is closely aligned with SUSE as a company, they aren't the exclusive sponsor of this free and open-source Linux distribution with its rolling-release Tumbleweed and Leap stable releases. AMD has been a longtime major supporter of openSUSE and the Fastly content delivery company has been another platinum sponsor too besides SUSE. There are also various other lower-tier sponsors while today the openSUSE Project put out a call for further corporate sponsorship...
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      AMD Posts AVX10_V2_AUX ISA Support Patches For GCC Compiler

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 July 2026

    Earlier this month Intel compiler engineers posted initial GCC compiler patches for the AI Compute Extensions "ACE" that was born out of the x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group to augment AVX and scalar code with new capabilities for AI/ML workloads. Now as part of that an AMD compiler engineer posted patches over the weekend for AVX10_V2_AUX ISA support...
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      Linux's Qualcomm Crypto Accelerator Driver "Harmful" And Being Disabled: Slower Than CPU, History Of Bugs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 July 2026

    The Qualcomm Crypto Engine Accelerator "QCE" driver is being disabled within the Linux 7.3 kernel over a number of issues, including being slower than having the CPU cores handling cryptographic work and a history of different driver bugs. Plus race conditions causing security issues and other challenges...
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      Hyprland 0.56 Released With Many Enhancements To This Wayland Compositor

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 July 2026

    Out today is Hyprland 0.56 as the newest feature update to this unique Wayland compositor and incorporating just under three months worth of improvements...
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      Linux 7.2-rc4 Released: Looking Like The "New Normal"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 July 2026

    The fourth weekly release candidate of the Linux 7.2 kernel is now available for testing...
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      The Last MPEG-4 Visual Patent Has Expired

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 July 2026

    If you are looking for a reason to celebrate today, the last of the MPEG-4 Part 2 patents expired today...
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      FFmpeg Lands Latest AVX-512 Optimization: 1.372x Faster In Pixel Format Conversion

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 July 2026

    The latest hand-tuned code in the FFmpeg multimedia library for allowing better performance on today's modern Intel/AMD AVX-512-capable processors is showing 1.372x faster performance for RGB24 to RGBA pixel format conversions...
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      Legion Y700 Gen4 Tablet Powered By Snapdragon 8 Elite Seeing Linux Patches

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 July 2026

    The Legion Y700 Gen4 is an Android tablet that debuted last year and powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Elite chipset. This 8.8-inch tablet is now seeing patches for enabling Linux support outside the confines of Android and will hopefully end up in the mainline kernel...
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      More ASUS Motherboards To Enjoy Working Sensor Monitoring With Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 July 2026

    Thanks to the work of the open-source community, more ASUS desktop motherboards for Intel Core and AMD Ryzen systems are seeing working sensor monitoring under Linux. With the upcoming Linux 7.3 cycle, several additional ASUS motherboards will now enjoy working sensor monitoring...