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      Plasma 6.7 Improves Its Built-In Remote Desktop Server, Enhances Plasma Notifications

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 May 2026

    This week marked the release of the KDE Plasma 6.7 beta and even so there were some last-minute features being squeezed into this popular Linux desktop option. Plasma's built-in remote desktop server enhancements and improved Plasma notification effects are among the changes topping out this week...
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      Steam Controller Mapping Merged To SDL Library

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 May 2026

    A few days ago the widely-used SDL library added support for the new Steam Controller without depending upon the Steam client. Now another improvement for the new Steam Controller has been merged to this widely-used library for cross-platform games/apps with software/hardware abstractions...
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      AMD ROCm 7.13 Released With Instinct MI350P Support, More Ryzen AI APUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 May 2026

    ROCm 7.13 was released today as the newest ROCm Core SDK Preview in working toward what will presumably be called ROCm 8.0 later in the year...
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      Wine 11.9 Released With Wayland Pointer Warp, Initial Support For System Threads

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 May 2026

    Wine 11.9 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release and nearing the half-way point of the development cycle toward Wine 12.0...
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      SDL Library Adds Support For The New Steam Controller Without Depending On Steam

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 May 2026

    Valve's new Steam Controller, which began shipping earlier this month for $99 USD, is a great piece of hardware. This high-end gaming controller is great hardware wise but what some may not enjoy about it currently is the tight integration with the Steam controller and no native OS drivers currently for use outside of Steam. As a big win today, the widely-used SDL3 gaming software/hardware abstraction library has added support for the new Steam Controller that works outside the confines of Steam...
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      New AMD Dynamic EPP Feature Causing Some Problems With Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 May 2026

    Dynamic EPP is one of the new AMD P-State features in Linux 7.1, but, unfortunately is causing some fallout in early usage of this power-savings related functionality...
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      Plasma Big Screen Working Out Quite Well With Plasma 6.7 Beta

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 May 2026

    With today's KDE Plasma 6.7 beta release there has been a surprising amount of interest in the new revival of Plasma Big Screen as the TV-sized UI for Plasma. I've been trying it out today and it has worked out rather well, a very smooth experience, and in good shape for making its debut in next month's Plasma 6.7 release...
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      MSI Claw Configuration Driver For Linux Coming Together With The Assistance Of AI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 May 2026

    One of the latest Linux gaming handheld drivers being worked on is the MSI Claw Configuration Driver for controller configuration...
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      ROCm 7.0.0 vs. ROCm 7.2.3 Performance On The AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 May 2026

    With the new System76 Thelio Major workstation review unit having arrived equipped with an AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics card, I took the opportunity of having the extra RDNA4 workstation GPU to satisfy a curiosity over whether there has been any meaningful performance gains from ROCm 7.0.0 released last year to now with the latest ROCm 7.2.3 stable release. Here are those benchmarks results if you are curious about the impact of just updating the user-space ROCm components from the end of last summer to the latest ROCm 7.2.3 milestone.