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      Open-Source Radeon Driver For R300 Through R500 GPUs Sees Big Code Cleanup In 2026

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 May 2026

    The open-source Radeon "R300g" driver living within the Mesa codebase for supporting the aging ATI (AMD) Radeon 9500 "R300" through Radeon X1000 "R500" series graphics processors is going through a big code restructuring as part of a big undertaking in 2026... Yes, 24 years after the ATI R300 GPUs first released, thanks to a devoted open-source developer fan, there is a significant improvement in the works...
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      Vulkan 1.4.351 Brings Six New Extensions, Including A Ray-Tracing Improvement

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 May 2026

    Quietly sneaking out at the end of last week was Vulkan 1.4.351 as the newest spec update to this high performance graphics and compute API...
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      HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression "DSC" Also Ready For AMDGPU Linux Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 May 2026

    At the beginning of the month was the surprise milestone of AMD posting AMDGPU kernel driver patches for HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link (FRL) support. The HDMI FRL patches have since been updated to also enable HDMI 2.1's Display Stream Compression (DSC) functionality for higher resolutions and higher refresh rates with the open-source AMDGPU driver...
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      Redesigned Thelio Major Elevates System76's All-AMD, Open-Source Linux Workstation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 May 2026

    A few weeks back we reviewed the redesigned System76 Thelio Mira with a brand new chassis design and powered by the AMD Ryzen 9000 series. This was an interesting Linux-powered desktop manufactured in Colorado while for those needing a bit more performance, since then the redesigned Thelio Major launched. The new System76 Thelio Major provides an updated Thelio case design like Mira while comes packed with the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series and AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 graphics for delivering a very powerful, all-AMD and open-source high-end Linux workstation.
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      GNOME's Help Viewer Updated Due To Flatpak Sandbox Escape Vulnerability

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 May 2026

    GNOME's help viewer, Yelp, last year was impacted by a serious security issue for arbitrary file reads. There's a new vulnerability affecting the GNOME help viewer that led to the Yelp 49.1 release to address a possible Flatpak sandbox escape vector...
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      Intel IGC 2.34.4 Compiler Brings Many Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 May 2026

    The Intel Graphics Compiler "IGC" 2.34.4 release is out today as this compiler used by the Intel Compute Runtime for Level Zero and OpenCL compute on Intel graphics hardware plus is also used as the graphics shader compiler under Windows...
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      F2FS Preparing FSERROR Reporting Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 May 2026

    Introduced in Linux 7.0 was FSERROR as generic I/O error reporting infrastructure. Linux to that point had no standardized mechanism for reporting metadata corruption or file I/O errors to user-space with each file-system doing its own thing. The Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) is now the latest Linux file-system preparing for FSERROR usage...
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      Linux 7.2 To Add Support For Switchtec PCIe Gen6 Switches

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 May 2026

    The upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel will be adding support for Microchip's Switchtec PCIe Gen6 switches...
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      AMD Ryzen AI & Intel NPU Drivers Adding New Power Features With Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 May 2026

    Last week's drm-misc-next pull request of new Direct Rendering Manager and accelerator driver feature material destined for Linux 7.2 include some new power management control features both for the AMD Ryzen AI and Intel NPU drivers...