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      RADV & RadeonSI Drivers See New Fixes For AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 GPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 July 2026

    Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics driver team continues taking special focus on AMD Radeon GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 era GPUs for enhancing the open-source graphics driver support for these aging graphics cards...
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      GCC 16.2 Being Planned For Early August Release

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 July 2026

    For those that prefer waiting until the first bug-fix/point release before upgrading to a major new feature series, GCC 16.2 is being planned for an early August release for delivering back-ported bug fixes to the GCC 16 compiler...
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      Arch Linux AUR Malware, Linux 7.2 Developments & Other June Highlights

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 July 2026

    Last month on Phoronix there were 294 original news articles and 18 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles. Beyond Phoronix.com turning 22 years old in June, there were also a lot of exciting Linux hardware and open-source software developments worth recapping...
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      ASUS ROG Strix Laptop Sees Driver Fix For Linux Performance Too Low Compared To Windows

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 July 2026

    With modern laptops, proper platform/WMI drivers are becoming more depended upon not only for supporting all typical functionality from keyboards to backlights and other handling, but also for achieving proper performance. For many laptop vendors, the Linux platform drivers are maintained by the open-source community and actual customers. The latest example of the challenges of the community-maintained support rather than from the vendor is with the ASUS ROG Strix G16 G614PR gaming laptop seeing inappropriate power values set in the open-source driver that were incorrect and led to lower power/performance than Windows...
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      Asahi Linux Fixes Booting With macOS 27, Progress On M3 & Apple Video Decode

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 July 2026

    The Asahi Linux project published a new blog post outlining recent development efforts in getting Apple Silicon hardware working with their downstream Linux distribution. There is ongoing work on bringing up Apple M3 support, fixing boot support for macOS 27 beta systems, Apple Video Decoder (AVD) support progress, and more...
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      NVIDIA Working On New "TLV" Firmware Binary Format For Nova Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 July 2026

    NVIDIA engineers have been developing a new binary format for their GPU firmware images for use with the in-development, open-source Nova kernel driver. With this new TLV binary firmware format it aims to be easier to parse by their Rust-based driver code...
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      Performance Optimizations, NVIDIA Vera, Arc Pro B70 & Other Linux Highlights From Q2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 July 2026

    As the last planned article on Phoronix of Q2, here is a look back at what excited readers the most in the second quarter. There were 872 original news articles this quarter as well as 54 Linux hardware reviews / multi-page featured benchmark articles. Here is what excited readers the most over these past three months...
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      COSMIC Epoch 1.2 Desktop Fixes Flickering Issues For Intel Graphics

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 June 2026

    Just a week after the COSMIC Epoch 1.1 release with its slick new system monitor, COSMIC Epoch 1.2 is now available for this Rust-based desktop developed by System76...
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      GraalVM CE 25.1.3 Gets Native Image "Hello World" Program Down To Just 6.5MB

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 30 June 2026

    GraalVM, the advanced JDK focused on ahead-of-time (AOT) Native Image compilation and since last year began shifting focus to more non-Java languages like Python and JavaScript, is out with its newest community feature release. GraalVM Community Edition 25.1.3 is now available with some interesting changes in tow...