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      Wayland Developers Target June For Weston 16 Release

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 April 2026

    Weston 16.0 could ship by the end of June with good color management and HDR support along with other new features for this reference Wayland compositor...
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      Devuan Developer Working On Reviving GTK2 With Modern Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 April 2026

    A Devuan developer, the Linux distribution that provides a Debian-based operating system without dependence on systemd, is working on "gtk2-ng" for providing modern fixes and improvements to the old GTK2 toolkit...
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      AMD Introducing New Linux Driver For Their Halo Box: For Its RGB LED Light Bar

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 April 2026

    AMD CEO Lisa Su back at CES 2026 showed off the Ryzen AI Halo box as a mini PC built around their excellent Strix Halo SoC. The Ryzen AI halo box is to serve as an AI development platform to compete with the likes of NVIDIA's DGX Spark and Dell GB10. This week is the first time I am seeing new Linux driver activity specifically referencing this exciting AMD "Halo Box" system...
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      Valve Updates GameNetworkingSockets After Nearly Four Year Hiatus

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 29 April 2026

    Back in 2018, Valve open-sourced their Steam networking sockets library as a basic network transport layer for games. This library is used by games from Counter-Strike to Dota 2 and since its public open-source drop has been picked up elsewhere. Finally after going nearly four years without a new version, GameNetworkingSockets v1.5 dropped today...
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      IBM Updates Linux Patches For Introducing ARM64 KVM Virtualization On s390

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 April 2026

    At the start of April was the peculiar announcement of IBM collaborating with Arm on "dual architecture" hardware. The initial fruits of that collaboration at least are Linux kernel patches for enabling ARM64 virtualization acceleration on IBM Z servers. As we approach the end of the month, IBM has now posted a second iteration of those patches for enabling AArch64 software to run on IBM s390 via the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM)...
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      Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Leads Over Windows 11 In Creator Workstation Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 April 2026

    The past few weeks I have been testing out the new HP Z6 G5 A workstation desktop PC. It's a beast in being powered by the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 9975WX, eight channels of DDR5-5600 memory, and paired with a NVIDIA RTX PRO 6000 Max-Q workstation graphics card. The full review on the HP Z6 G5 A workstation will be published on Phoronix in the next week or so but given the timing and that it shipped with WIndows 11 Pro, here is a look at how Windows 11 Pro is competing against the newly-released Ubuntu 26.04 LTS in creator/workstation workloads.
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      AMD's Lemonade SDK 10.3 Now 10x Smaller By Getting Rid Of Electron

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 April 2026

    Lemonade as the open-source local AI server backed by AMD and supported across AMD CPUs / GPUs / NPUs on Windows and Linux is out with a big update...
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      Sovereign Tech Agency Launches New Initiative To Help Open Standards

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 April 2026

    Germany's Sovereign Tech Agency (Sovereign Tech Fund) has provided critical financial resources to open-source software projects and maintainers the past several years. This has proven to be an incredible effort and today they announced their newest initiative as the Sovereign Tech Standards...
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      GCC 16's Improved Error Messages, Experimental HTML Output

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 April 2026

    GCC 16.1 as the first stable version of the GCC 16 compiler is releasing as soon as later this week if all goes well. Among the many improvements in this year's open-source compiler update are continued enhancements to the error messages as well as having an experimental HTML output option for messages...