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      ThinkPads On Linux Appear Nearly Ready For Improved Trackpoint Doubletap Handling

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January 2026

    Being worked on for a while by Lenovo engineer Vishnu Sankar is nicely handling support for double-tap functionality with TrackPoints on ThinkPads under Linux. The sixth iteration of this enablement work was posted today and is just documentation updates, so it's looking like this new TrackPoint doubletap code could soon be crossing the threshold for the mainline Linux kernel...
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      Updated Linux Patches For Managing Out-Of-Memory Behavior Via BPF

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January 2026

    Being worked on since last year by Google engineer Roman Gushchin was the latest attempt for the Linux kernel to support managing the out-of-memory "OOM" behavior using BPF programs. It's been a while since there has been anything new to report on that front but published overnight is the latest iteration of those patches...
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      Picolibc Picks Up RISC-V Improvements, Hexagon Support & Better POSIX Compliance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January 2026

    Keith Packard published Picolibc 1.8.11 on Monday as the newest release for his C library designed for embedded 32-bit and 64-bit platforms. Picolibc continues tacking on new CPU architecture support and other features for this project that started out as a conglomeration of the Newlib and AVR Libc C library codebases...
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      AMD Radeon Linux Driver Introduces Low-Latency Video Decode Option

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 January 2026

    AMD's RadeonSI Gallium3D driver for next quarter's Mesa 26.1 release is introducing a new low-latency video decode mode. This lower-latency video decoding comes with a trade-off of increased GPU power consumption...
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      Valve's Proton 10.0-4 Released With More Windows Games Now Running On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 January 2026

    Valve and CodeWeavers today released Proton 10.0-4 as their newest update to this downstream of Wine that powers Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux...
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      AMD Squeezing Out More More ROCm/HIP Performance With New Device-Side PGO

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 January 2026

    Compiler profile guided optimization (PGO) techniques have paid off well for increasing CPU performance via application/workload-specific profiles fed back to the compiler to make more informed decisions. AMD compiler engineers have been working on crafting device-side PGO for their AMDGPU LLVM back-end for allowing ROCm/HIP workloads to achieve greater GPU performance. An initial merge request is now open for upstream LLVM...
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      Firefox Nightly Enables Split-View Mode Option By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 January 2026

    The latest Firefox Nightly builds have now enabled the Split View mode by default to easily view two web pages at once within a single window...
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      Godot 4.6 Ships Many Improvements For This Leading Open-Source Game Engine

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 January 2026

    Godot 4.6 is officially out today as the newest feature release for this leading open-source, cross-platform game engine...
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      Intel Panther Lake / Arc B390 Linux Benchmarks Still Coming

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 26 January 2026

    Ahead of tomorrow's official availability of new Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" laptops, the review embargo lifted on Panther Lake and its much anticipated Arc B390 graphics. There have been several Windows 11 reviews of Panther Lake out today, but what about Linux?..