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      Microsoft Updates DirectX Shader Compiler With Improved Vulkan Driver Interoperability

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 February 2026

    Microsoft has published a new version of its open-source DirectX Shader Compiler. Besides adding Shader Model 6.9 production support, making this DX Compiler update interesting to us are the SPIR-V back-end improvements and enhancing interoperability with Vulkan drivers...
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      Benchmarking 18 Years Of Intel Laptop CPUs: Panther Lake As Much As 95x The Speed Of Penryn

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 February 2026

    For those curious how far Intel laptop CPU performance has evolved over the past nearly two decades, here are power and performance numbers when re-benchmarking all of the Intel-powered laptop CPUs I have on hand that are still operational from Penryn to Panther Lake. A ThinkPad from 2008 with the Core 2 Duo T9300 "Penryn" was still firing up and working with the latest upstream Intel open-source Linux driver support on Ubuntu 26.04 development. On a geo mean basis over the past 18 years from Penryn to Panther Lake, the performance was at 21.5x in over 150 benchmarks. At the most extreme was a 95x difference going from Intel's 45nm Penryn to the 18A Panther Lake.
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      NXP Posts New Linux Accelerator Driver For Their Neutron NPU

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 February 2026

    The Linux kernel continues seeing more open-source kernel drivers emerge for supporting different AI accelerators / NPUs. The newest open-source driver breaking cover today is from NXP and is for enabling their Neutron neural processing unit...
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      Linux 7.1 Looks To Support Extended Attributes On Sockets For New GNOME & systemd Functionality

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 February 2026

    While the Linux 7.0 feature merge window ended this past weekend and that next kernel release won't debut as stable until April, there are already features out on the horizon that are being positioned for likely merging into the Linux 7.1 kernel assuming no issues appear or objections raised by Linus Torvalds. One of the features already looking like it will be submitted for Linux 7.1 is supporting extended attributes on sockets...
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      Fwupd 2.0.20 Brings New Hardware Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 February 2026

    Fwupd/LVFS lead developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat today released Fwupd 2.0.20 with continuing to advance firmware updating on Linux systems...
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      ZCULL Support For Nouveau + NVK Brings Some Small Performance Gains

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 February 2026

    Merged yesterday to Mesa 26.1 for the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver "NVK" is ZCULL support for more efficient rendering and bringing some small performance gains to this open-source NVIDIA driver stack...
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      Intel Vulkan Driver Sees Some Minor Optimizations For DX12 Games On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 February 2026

    Merged to Mesa 26.1-devel this week is a minor improvement to the Intel "ANV" Vulkan driver providing some slight enhancements to DirectX 12 games running on Linux by way of Valve's Steam Play with VKD3D-Proton...
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      AlmaLinux Showing Nice Growth With More Than 2M System Update Check-Ins Per Week

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 February 2026

    AlmaLinux as one of the leading, modern and community-minded alternatives to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) continues enjoying very nice growth. In their 2025 Year In Review they provided a look at their growth with now having more than two million systems per week checking in for software updates...
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      GStreamer 1.28.1 Adds Whisper-Based Speech-To-Text, AV1 Stateful V4L2 Decoder Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 February 2026

    Building off January's GStreamer 1.28 release with many new features, GStreamer 1.28.1 was released today as a point release bringing various fixes and minor additions to this open-source multimedia framework...