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      Marek Olšák Scores Up To 100% Pixel Throughput Optimization For RADV Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 June 2026

    Marek Olšák who had been a longtime AMD Linux driver engineer specializing in the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, recently began working for Valve on their Linux graphics driver team. His focus has understandably shifted to working on the RADV Vulkan driver and one of his early optimizations now with the Valve hat on is up to a 100% pixel throughput optimization for the RADV driver, which is already quite well optimized thanks to years of investment from Valve, Red Hat, and others...
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      Microsoft Announces Open-Source "Intelligent Terminal"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 June 2026

    Microsoft today announced their newest open-source creation... Under the MIT license it's the Intelligent Terminal...
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      Benchmarking The Different CachyOS Linux Kernel Flavors

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 June 2026

    CachyOS ships with a good Linux kernel configuration by default balancing the different features as well as performance. But they also ship a variety of other kernel builds for those preferring a more leading-edge kernel or the current LTS series, a hardened kernel configuration, and more. In this article are some fresh benchmarks of the Arch Linux based CachyOS Linux distribution with some of its main kernel flavors.
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      KDE Plasma 6.8 Still Planning To End X11 Support, 95% Of Plasma 6.6 Users Are On Wayland

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 June 2026

    KDE developers are sticking to their plans for Plasma 6.8 going Wayland-exclusive in dropping X11 support. Meanwhile it turns out 95% of current Plasma 6.6 users are running already on Wayland...
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      The Linux Kernel Ready To Make TSC A Hard Requirement For x86 CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 June 2026

    Now that the Linux kernel has been removing Intel 486 CPU support and also proceeding to drop other vintage CPUs like the AMD K5 CPU support and AMD Elan, the Linux kernel is ready to make the TSC support unconditional for x86 processors...
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      Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Merges Mesh Shader Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 June 2026

    Mesa's NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver now has mesh shader support as another significant step forward for this driver in being able to handle modern Linux gaming and other workloads...
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      Mir 2.27 Released With More Wayland Rust Code

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 June 2026

    Canonical today released Mir 2.27 as the latest version of this set of compositor libraries for easily building Wayland-based shells on Linux and fitting into the Ubuntu Linux paradigm...
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      ASUS ZenVision Laptop Lid Screen Reverse Engineered & Now Able To Work On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 June 2026

    ASUS ZenVision is a feature of some ASUS laptops like the Zenbook 14X OLED Space Edition where there is a 3.5-inch monochrome screen embedded into the top lid of the laptop. From this mini display embedded into the top lid of the laptop it's possible to display animated themes, show the current date/time, battery status, or customized messages and the like. The practicality is rather limited as primarily it's for showing off to people around you besides when your laptop lid is closed, but now with experimental code it's now possible to use ZenVision on Linux...
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      COSMIC Desktop's Frosted Glass Is Giving Windows Aero Vibes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 June 2026

    Some of the latest feature work for the Rust and Wayland based COSMIC desktop environment is on creating their new "Frosted Glass" appearance. It's getting closer to release and giving off Windows Aero vibes for that design language from the Windows Vista days...