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      Phoronix Premium Summer Sale To Help Support Linux Hardware Testing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 July 2026

    For those that missed Phoronix turning 22 years old last month when running a special to help support the site, a few readers mentioned recently they missed out on seeing the deal in time. Paired with the US Independence Day holiday and summer sales elsewhere, now through 10 July is a Phoronix Premium summer sale if wishing to view the site ad-free while supporting the daily open-source/Linux news coverage and relentless Linux hardware testing...
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      GNOME Lands ext-background-effect-v1 Support For Background Blur Effect

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 July 2026

    Added to the Wayland Protocols repository back in May of 2025 was the ext-background-effect-v1 protocol for background blur that had been under discussion since early 2024. The initial focus is on being able to apply a blur effect on a window's background or otherwise a specified screen region. GNOME 51 has now merged support for ext-background-effect-v1 with the latest Mutter code...
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      Linux 7.3 Adding More Graphics PCI IDs For Intel Nova Lake S

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 July 2026

    In addition to this week's drm-intel-next pull request beginning to lay out the Intel kernel graphics driver changes for Linux 7.3, the first drm-xe-next pull request was sent out on Friday. Intel Nova Lake enablement remains the hot area for the Intel GPU driver code...
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      Linux 7.2-rc2 Raising The Default RISC-V 64-bit CPU Limit To 256 Cores

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 July 2026

    A post merge-window change that landed in Linux Git overnight ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.2-rc2 release is bumping the default limit on the number of supported CPU cores for RISC-V 64-bit. Now by default Linux will support up to 256 cores with RISC-V 64-bit kernel builds...
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      KWin Compositor In KDE Plasma 6.8 Drops Support For Desktop OpenGL

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 July 2026

    Along with releasing Plasma 6.7.2 this week, KDE developers continue to be quite busy working on new features and improvements for the Plasma 6.8 release while also furthering along fixes for future Plasma 6.7 point releases...
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      GNOME Mutter GPU Reset Recovery Becoming A Reality

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 July 2026

    While typically quite rare encountering a GPU reset under Linux in most conditions, currently if encountering one under GNOME your session gets wiped out. But thanks to a Google Summer of Code "GSoC" project this year, GNOME's Mutter compositor is finally seeing real GPU reset recovery handling...
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      GNOME 51 Alpha Released With Numerous Enhancements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 July 2026

    In working toward the stable GNOME 51 desktop release due out in September, today marks the alpha release of GNOME 51...
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      ReactOS Implements First Windows NT6 System Call In Step Toward Vista Compatibility

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 July 2026

    The ReactOS project that is striving to be the "open-source Windows" with Windows driver and software binary compatibility hit another milestone today. ReactOS to date has primarily targeted Windows NT 5.2 as the architecture from Windows XP and Windows Server 2003 but with an eye toward Windows NT 6.0 for Windows Vista and later compatibility with software. ReactOS has now landed their first NT6 system call...
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      Fedora 45 Considering x86_64 Shadow Stack Usage By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 July 2026

    A change proposal under consideration for Fedora Linux 45 would enable x86_64 Shadow Stack usage by default in the name of better security on modern Intel and AMD systems...