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      KDE KWin Patches Aiming To Optimize Gaming Latency To Better Compete With Windows

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 June 2026

    Open-source developer Jakub Okoński has been working on comparing the gaming latency between Linux and Windows and in turn working to drive some improvements into KDE's KWin Wayland compositor so the latency is more competitive with the gaming experience under Microsoft Windows 11...
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      Linux Firmware Repository Preps For AI Coding Agents

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 June 2026

    The linux-firmware.git repository that serves as the de facto home of all the binary blobs used by the mainline Linux kernel open-source drivers has now introduced AGENTS.md documentation and other preparations for embracing AI coding agents...
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      AMDGPU Linux Driver Preps For HDMI 2.1 Compliance Testing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 June 2026

    While not as exciting as features like HDMI 2.1 FRL and Display Stream Compression itself, as part of AMD's efforts to provide a fully open-source HDMI 2.1 driver implementation for AMDGPU, new code is being prepped for their kernel driver to support the HDMI compliance testing efforts...
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      Linux's KVM Preps For APX Support In VMs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 June 2026

    Among the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) work being queued ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window are preparations for supporting Advanced Performance Extensions within KVM virtual machines...
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      RADV Driver Now Leveraging RDNA3+ Hardware Feature For Better Instruction Cache Prefetching

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 June 2026

    Initially introduced in RDNA3 (GFX11) GPUs is INST_PREF_SIZE to specify the number of instruction bytes to prefetch prior to a wavefront beginning execution. The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is now making use of this feature in RDNA3/RDNA4 GPUs for better instruction cache prefetching...
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      Linux Sees Patches For "Critical" Vulnerability Affecting Many Arm CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 June 2026

    Made public today is CVE-2025-10263 as a "critical" security vulnerability affecting many different Arm CPU cores. CVE-2025-10263 could allow for privilege escalation on affected systems due to a specific timing condition during a memory permission change. Fundamentally it comes down to completion of affected memory accesses might not be guaranteed by the completion of a TLBI...
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      Alpine Linux 3.24 Improves Installer Experience, Adds COSMIC Desktop Option

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 June 2026

    Alpine Linux, the Linux distribution popular especially for containers / micro-services and embedded devices, is out with its newest feature release...
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      macOS 27 Beta Breaks The Ability To Boot Asahi Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 June 2026

    Asahi Linux is warning its users from trying out the new macOS 27 "Golden Gate" beta released this week by Apple. With macOS 27 beta, the Asahi Linux partition is no longer visible and thus unable to boot to your Apple Silicon Linux installation...
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      RISC-V CPU Performance Up 8x In Five Years: SiFive HiFive Unmatched To SpacemiT K3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 June 2026

    Recently I published some initial SpacemiT K3 benchmarks for that first-to-market RISC-V RVA23 SoC with the K3 Pico-ITX mini computer. In there was a comparison against modern Intel Core Ultra and AMD Ryzen desktop CPUs along with the likes of the Raspberry Pi 5, Loongson 3B6000, and SiFive HiFive Premier. For those curious about the longer-term RISC-V performance, here is a look at how far the RISC-V hardware performance has come compared to the SiFive HiFive Unmatched RISC-V board from five years ago.