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      Cage 0.3 Released With New Wayland Protocol Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 April 2026

    Cage as the Wayland compositor providing a kiosk mode for single, maximized apps is out with a new feature release more than six months after its prior version...
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      GNOME-Aligned Amberol 2026.1 Music Player Released, Phosh Improves X11 Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 April 2026

    A few weeks past the GNOME 50 release and there continues to be a lot of ongoing GNOME app activity worth highlighting...
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      Support For AMD GFX11.7 "RDNA 4m" Pending For RADV & RadeonSI Drivers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 April 2026

    Back in February we were the first to report on a new AMD "RDNA 4m" target appearing in the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler. While part of the "RDNA 4" family, it's graphics IP version is GFX 11.7 (GFX1170) that is associated with the RDNA 3 family but with some ISA changes to align it slightly more with the newer RDNA 4 graphics IP. While the RDNA 4m AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler patches have been out for two months, the Mesa patches have only been posted this week for enabling the RADV Vulkan driver and RadeonSI Gallium3D (OpenGL) driver support...
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      Intel's New Shader Compiler "Jay" Merged For Mesa 26.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 April 2026

    It was just a few days ago that Jay was publicly posted as the new shader compiler in-development for Intel GPUs on Linux for both their ANV Vulkan and Iris Gallium3D drivers. While still very experimental, that initial Jay compiler code was merged today for Mesa 26.1-devel...
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      VMUFAT File-System Driver Proposed For The Linux Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 April 2026

    The newest Linux file-system driver proposed for the kernel is... VMUFAT...
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      Linux 7.0 Ready For Release With Many Exciting Changes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 April 2026

    The Linux 7.0 kernel is gearing up for its stable release and should be out this coming Sunday, 12 April, barring any major last minute issues...
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      Firefox 149 vs. Chrome 147 Web Browser Performance On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 April 2026

    It has been a while since featuring a showdown of the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers on Linux. With some fresh benchmarks being overdue plus the new JetStream 3 browser benchmark having been announced last week, here is some fresh data for how these two dominant web browsers are competing on the modern Linux desktop from an Intel Panther Lake system running Ubuntu 26.04.
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      Linux 2026 "Spring Cleaning" To Address Some Code Remnants As Far Back As Linux v0.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 April 2026

    A big kernel patch series was posted today by longtime Linux developer Thomas Gleixner. The set of 38 patches amount to some big time "spring cleaning" with addressing some code remnants still around that originated back in the very early Linux v0.1 kernel while some other code being cleaned up dates back to the Linux 1.3~2.1 kernel series from the 90's...
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      Bitland WMI Laptop Driver Slated For Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 April 2026

    Bitland, the Chinese OEM that manufactured systems for Lenovo and other companies until being added to the US Entity List due to being accused of using Uyghur forced labor, is expected to see a WMI driver added to the Linux 7.1 kernel for better supporting Bitland laptops...