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      Today's Steam Beta Makes The Linux Client A 64-bit App

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    Valve just dropped a new Steam client beta and it's a big one for Linux gamers...
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      Intel Nova Lake S & Nova Lake P To Support SR-IOV With Xe Graphics

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 hours ago

    A patch has been posted to the Linux kernel mailing list by an Intel engineer confirming that Nova Lake S and Nova Lake P processors with integrated graphics will support SR-IOV in conjunction with the Xe kernel graphics driver...
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      LPDDR5 5467 vs. 6400 vs. 7467 MT/s Memory Performance Benchmarks For Laptops

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    With the recently reviewed Star Labs StarFighter Ultra Linux laptop its BIOS allows for configurable memory speeds unlike many other laptop vendor BIOS implementations these days. Star Labs also made the default design decision to run the LPDDR5-7467 rated memory at LPDDR5-6400 speeds in the name of a balanced user experience for power/performance. So I was curious to run some benchmarks quantifying that power and performance impact of LPDDR5-6400 vs. LPDDR5-7467 plus tossed in LPDDR5-5467 testing as well as the third choice offered with this StarFighter Ultra laptop.
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      Memtest86+ v9.00 Released With Support For ARM64 Memory Testing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    The open-source Memtest86+ program that is popular for RAM testing has expanded beyond the x86/x86_64 (and LoongArch64) world to now support memory testing on ARM64/AArch64 hardware...
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      3mdeb Releases Updated Dasharo/Coreboot Firmware For ASRock Rack SPC741D8-2L2T

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    3mdeb firmware engineers have been quite busy this year working on porting Coreboot and openSIL to an AMD Ryzen AM5 MSI motherboard and similarly getting openSIL and Coreboot up and running on a Gigabyte server motherboard for AMD EPYC 9005 CPUs. They haven't forgotten about their past projects though and today released an updated version of their Dasharo downstream firmware for the ASRock Rack SPC741D8-2L2T motherboard supporting 4th and 5th Gen Xeon Scalable processors...
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      Claude Code / AI Shows Potential For Reverse-Engineering Hardware For Linux Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    AI/LLMs like Claude Code are beginning to prove capable of helping to reverse engineer hardware for Linux support, especially when it comes to the tedious reverse engineering tasks...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 Released With Linux 7.3 + GNOME 51, Rust Coreutils Migration Complete

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" is now officially available as the newest six-month non-LTS update to Ubuntu Linux...
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      Huawei Proposes Enabling CPU Boost By Default For ACPI CPPC Linux Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    For those using the generic ACPI Collaborative Processor Performance Control (CPPC) CPUFreq driver such as on a number of ARM64 Linux server platforms, if the CPUs support a "boost" mode it's disabled by default. But a patch from Huawei is now looking to enable CPU boost mode by default on Linux...
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      GNOME Mutter Improves Damage Tracking For Secondary GPU Copy Buffers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    As an early improvement to Mutter to look forward to with GNOME 52, the compositor is now tracking damage for secondary GPU copy buffers. This should improve the experience for those with multi-GPU setups such as some hybrid laptops...