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      GNU C Library Moving From Sourceware To Linux Foundation Hosted CTI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January 2026

    GNU C Library "glibc" developers have decided to move ahead with plans of migrating their core services from Sourcware.org infrastructure over to the Core Toolchain Infrastructure "CTI" project hosted by the Linux Foundation...
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      KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta 2 Released For Testing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January 2026

    Following the KDE Plasma 6.6 Beta from two weeks ago, a second beta of the upcoming Plasma 6.6 desktop is now available for testing. KDE Plasma 6.6 stable remains on-track for a mid-February release...
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      Google Axion CPU Performance With The New Google Cloud N4A Instances

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January 2026

    Back in 2024 Google rolled out their Axion in-house ARM processors with the Google Cloud C4A instance type. Today they are expanding their Axion offerings in Google Cloud with the N4A instances now out of preview. The Google Cloud N4A instances are designed for scale-out web servers and microservices, containerized applications, back-end application services, databases, data analytics, and cost-effective development/staging/testing environments.
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      Systemd Founder Lennart Poettering Announces Amutable Company

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January 2026

    Systemd founder and lead developer Lennart Poettering announced the creation of a new company called Amutable. The Amutable company being led by Chris Kühl (CEO), Christian Brauner (CTO) and Lennart Poettering (Chief Engineer) will be focused on delivering determinism and verifiable integrity to Linux systems...
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      TigerVNC 1.16 Released With "w0vncserver" For Sharing Wayland Desktop Sessions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January 2026

    TigerVNC 1.16 is out today for this high performance, multi-platform VNC server and client implementation. Most notable with TigerVNC 1.16 is "w0vncserver" as a new server for sharing Wayland desktops...
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      Zlib-rs Declares A Stable & Complete API For This Rust-Based Zlib Implementation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January 2026

    Following the release of zlib-rs 0.6 last week, the developers behind this Rust-based Zlib implementation have declared their API stable and complete...
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      Xfwl4 Being Developed As New Wayland Compositor For Xfce

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January 2026

    Xfce developers are using their donations from the community to fund a longtime core developer to create Xfwl4, an entirely new Wayland compositor for Xfce...
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      Vulkan VK_EXT_present_timing Merged To Mesa 26.1 For X11 & Wayland

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January 2026

    The Vulkan EXT_present_timing was in development for years to help avoid game stuttering and released this past November with Vulkan 1.4.335. This significant extension as of today has been wired up in Mesa 26.1-devel for the key Vulkan drivers and working on both X11 and Wayland...
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      New Intel Linux Code For DG2 Graphics Can Improve Performance As Much As "A Whopping 260%"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January 2026

    A set of 18 patches were merged overnight to Mesa 26.1 for working around graphics corruption on Meteor Lake and DG2/Alchemist class graphics hardware. Not only are some graphics corruption issues worked around but for that hardware there is as much as "a whopping 260%" performance improvement observed for some graphics workloads...