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      Redox OS Begins Developing Its Own Intel Graphics Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 days ago - 16:55

    The Rust-written Redox OS operating system had an exciting end to the year as it began developing its own native Intel graphics driver...
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      Transparent Hugepage Performance On Linux 6.18 LTS: Madvise vs. Always

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 days ago - 15:45

    With some Linux distributions like Fedora Workstation and Ubuntu defaulting to "madvise" Transparent Hugepages (THP) while others like CachyOS and openSUSE defaulting to "always", you may be curious about the madvise vs. always THP difference in modern Linux environments. If so this round of benchmarking is for you in looking at the performance impact of madvise vs. always THP.
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      Pre-Compiled Headers Being Debated For LLVM/Clang To Speed-Up Build By 1.5~2x

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 days ago - 14:05

    LLVM developers and other stakeholders have begun debating the use of pre-compiled headers "PCH" as a means of speeding up the compiulation of the LLVM compiler infrastructure by 1.5x to 2x than with non-PCH builds...
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      Revised Steam Survey For December 2025 Puts Linux Gaming Marketshare At 3.58%

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 days ago - 13:52

    Back on the 1st Valve published the Steam Survey results for December 2025 and they put the Linux gaming marketshare at 3.19%, a 0.01% dip from November. But now the December results have been revised with a nice bump to the Linux marketshare...
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      Flatpak Exploring GPU Virtualization To Ease Driver Challenges

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 days ago - 11:34

    Open-source developer Sebastian Wick has written a blog post outlining work to improve the graphics driver situation for Flatpaks. Particularly around situations like the NVIDIA driver stack that may depend upon a specific kernel version or where a Flatpak runtime may be end-of-life, dealing with GPU drivers in Flatpaks can be a burden. A solution being explored is GPU virtualization to deal with those GPU driver handling challenges while still providing robust and secure GPU access...
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      Intel Core Ultra X7 358H + 32GB RAM Laptop Around ~$1300 USD

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 days ago - 11:23

    Yesterday when Intel formally introduced Panther Lake as the Core Ultra Series 3 with pre-orders set to begin today and available globally later this month, one of the key questions remaining was around pricing... I've been scouting various Internet retailers today and so far have found a Ultra X7 358H model with the 12 Xe cores for the Xe3 integrated graphics to be priced around $1299 USD with 32GB of RAM...
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      AMD Releases GAIA 0.15 - Positioning It As A Framework/SDK For Building AI PC Agents

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 days ago - 11:09

    Last year AMD announced GAIA as short for "Generative AI Is Awesome". It started off as a Windows-only AI demo but over time added Linux support along with introducing different AI agents. For going along with AMD's AI announcements at CES 2026, AMD released GAIA 0.15 where they are now positioning this software as a framework/SDK for building AI PC agents...
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      GStreamer 1.28-RC1 Brings A Rust-Based GIF Decoder, Other New Rust Components

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 days ago - 10:58

    On Monday the first release candidate of the GStreamer 1.28 multimedia framework was released. As is a recurring focus in recent releases, more GStreamer code is written in Rust for memory safety especially around decoding content...
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      AMD Announces Ryzen 7 9850X3D, New Strix Halo SKUs & Ryzen AI 400 Series

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 days ago - 03:30

    Lisa Su's keynote just wrapped up at CES 2026 and in turn the embargo regarding AMD's first consumer product announcements for 2026. The AMD Ryzen AI 400 series and new Ryzen 7 9850X3D 3D V-Cache processors are what's in focus for CES this year.