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      Mir/Wayland-Powered Miracle-WM 0.11 Released With New Overview Mode, Window Urgency

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:58

    Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek rolled out Miracle-WM 0.11 today as an end-of-summer update to this Wayland compositor built atop the Mir library...
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      Mesa 26.2.3 Released With AMD GFX1171 Support, Other Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 hours ago

    Mesa 26.2.3 is out today as the newest stable point release in this quarter's Mesa 26.2 series...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 Can Provide A Nice Boost For Low-End/Budget Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    Canonical recently began producing Ubuntu 26.10 amd64v3 daily ISOs to complement their experimental amd64v3 package archive that they have been trialing the past few release cycles. While we still don't know what any official plans are for amd64v3 with Ubuntu 26.10, the performance gains can be very worthwhile over the generic amd64 binaries even for low-end/budget hardware.
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      GNOME 51 Released With Improved Frame Scheduling, Many App Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    Right on schedule and in time for appearing in the likes of Ubuntu 26.10 and Fedora Workstation 45, the GNOME 51 desktop is officially released...
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      Crash-Safe & Copy-On-Write GEFS As The "Good Enough File-System" For OpenBSD

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    Ori Bernstein announced an early preview of his Good Enough File-System "GEFS" for OpenBSD. GEFS is a crash-safe, snapshotting, copy-on-write file-system that he wrote initially for 9front and now porting to OpenBSD...
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      Linux Randomly Picking Idle CPU Cores Shows Modest Win On High Core Count Systems

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    Arm engineer Christian Loehle sent out a patch series today proposing that the Linux scheduler code randomize its picking of equally shallow idle CPU cores. This randomization is showing to deliver a win at least for high CPU core counts for better distributing workloads...
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      AMD Sends Out Linux Patches For Enabling SEV-TIO TDISP With PCIe 6.0+

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    The newest Linux kernel patches out of AMD for enhancing the upstream support with the new AMD EPYC 9006 "Venice" processors is for enabling SEV-TIO TDISP that is supported with PCI Express 6.0 and beyond...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 Moves cp, mv & rm Over To Rust Coreutils For 100% Transition

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    While Ubuntu Linux has been making use of the Rust Coreutils project over the past year since Ubuntu 25.10 as an alternative to GNU Coreutils and part of their effort to get more system components implemented in the memory-safety-focused Rust programming language, Ubuntu 26.10 finally completes the transition with the cp, mv, and rm commands now coming from Rust Coreutils...
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      Linux's Yogafan Driver Prepares Support For Newer Lenovo Laptops

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    Introduced back in Linux 7.1 was the Yogafan HWMON driver for supporting fan speed monitoring across various Lenovo Yoga, Legion, Flex, Slim, and IdeaPad laptops. An initial set of Lenovo laptops was initially supported by this driver while succeeding kernel versions have continued building out the support...