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      Wayland 1.26 RC1 Released With New Event To Help Ensure Correct Pointer Coordinates

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 July 2026

    In addition to Weston 16 nearing release and its release candidate out today, the Wayland 1.26 release candidate was just issued with a few notable changes on top of the more typical bug fixing...
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      Proposed Linux Patch For A Brief Delay To Match PCI Spec Will Hopefully Address Some Bugs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 July 2026

    Going back to February there was a bug report around the xHCI controller dieing on resume from s2idle when using an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" Framework Desktop. In turn all USB devices behind the xHCI controller are lost on resume, but unbinding and binding the driver can restore the functionality without a reboot. After months of back and forth communication, it looks like a solution has been figured out and comes down to a nuance of the PCI spec with needing a brief wait...
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      Linux Prepares For New USB-C Security Feature On Lenovo ThinkPads

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 July 2026

    Newer Lenovo ThinkPad systems feature a security feature called USB-C Security Restricted Mode that is in the process of being wired up for reporting under Linux...
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      Initial Patches Posted For Booting The Apple M4 On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 July 2026

    With the Linux 7.2 kernel there is initial support for booting the Apple M3 SoC on Linux but it's not yet functional for end users with just booting to a simple console. There are now Device Tree files posted for booting the Apple M4 on Linux but also not yet useful for any typical Apple Mac/MacBook usage on Linux...
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      AMD Ryzen AI Halo Box RGB LED Driver Inches Closer To The Mainline Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 July 2026

    The AMD Ryzen AI Halo mini PC powered by Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" began shipping this week. It features very nice Linux support out-of-the-box with the Debian-based Ryzen AI Developer Platform operating system. For those wishing to run their own x86_64 Linux distribution, one of the only caveats in the Linux support is quite small... No mainline kernel support yet for controlled the RGB LED light strip on the driver. But that driver is coming and will hopefully be mainlined soon...
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      Zlib-rs 0.6.6 Released With Updated Zlib API Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 July 2026

    Zlib-rs 0.6.6 was just released by the Trifecta Tech Foundation. Just weeks after the prior release with a fix for Intel Raptor Lake and bringing new SIMD optimizations, zlib-rs 0.6.6 is about delivering updated Zlib API compatibility...
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      Redox OS Gets GTK3 Backend For Orbital Desktop, Fractional Scaling & USB Gamepads

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 July 2026

    The open-source, Rust-based Redox OS platform had a very eventful June with many new features implemented and more software ported over to run on this from-scratch operating system...
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      LibreOffice 26.8 Beta Released For Improving This Free Software Office Suite

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 July 2026

    The Document Foundation today announced the first beta release of the LibreOffice 26.8 open-source office suite set for its stable debut in August...
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      OpenMandriva GitHub Disrupted & Nefarious Package Push In Sabotage Attempt

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 July 2026

    The OpenMandriva project put out a statement today concerning an attempted distribution sabotage effort. Part of the OpenMandriva GitHub repository was deleted and there was an empty package push made to OpenMandriva's Cooker repository in trying to obsolete all GNOME and COSMIC packages...