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      Mesa's Rusticl Now Enables Arm Mali Panfrost Driver Support By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8:00

    A change upstreamed to Mesa by an Arm engineer now enables the Panfrost Gallium3D driver for Arm Mali graphics to work with the Rusticl driver by default...
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      Wine 11.13 Better Supports Input Pointers, Improved Keyboard Scancode Mapping For X11

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:49

    Wine 11.13 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software enabling support for running Windows games and applications on Linux...
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      Pop!_OS Rolls Out Its "Frosted Glass" Desktop Style For COSMIC

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:27

    System76 developers have for the past number of weeks been working on developing a "frosted glass" appearance for the COSMIC desktop environment featured on their Pop!_OS Linux distribution. For Pop!_OS users this frosted glass feature is now available and will become more widespread for other Linux distributions once the next COSMIC release is formally tagged...
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      Graviton5 CPU Benchmarks: 30% Geo Mean Improvement Over Graviton4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    After originally announcing Graviton5 last December, recently AWS finally made the M9g and M9gd instances generally available as the first featuring these new in-house ARM server processors for the EC2 cloud. Graviton5 makes use of Arm Neoverse-V3 cores compared to Neoverse-V2 with Graviton4, support up to 192 cores, and feature a higher 3.3GHz clock speed compared to 2.8GHz on the prior-generation Graviton CPUs. Here is an initial look at how the Graviton5 processor performs over Graviton4.
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      Wayland 1.26 RC1 Released With New Event To Help Ensure Correct Pointer Coordinates

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    In addition to Weston 16 nearing release and its release candidate out today, the Wayland 1.26 release candidate was just issued with a few notable changes on top of the more typical bug fixing...
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      Proposed Linux Patch For A Brief Delay To Match PCI Spec Will Hopefully Address Some Bugs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Going back to February there was a bug report around the xHCI controller dieing on resume from s2idle when using an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" Framework Desktop. In turn all USB devices behind the xHCI controller are lost on resume, but unbinding and binding the driver can restore the functionality without a reboot. After months of back and forth communication, it looks like a solution has been figured out and comes down to a nuance of the PCI spec with needing a brief wait...
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      Linux Prepares For New USB-C Security Feature On Lenovo ThinkPads

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Newer Lenovo ThinkPad systems feature a security feature called USB-C Security Restricted Mode that is in the process of being wired up for reporting under Linux...
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      Initial Patches Posted For Booting The Apple M4 On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    With the Linux 7.2 kernel there is initial support for booting the Apple M3 SoC on Linux but it's not yet functional for end users with just booting to a simple console. There are now Device Tree files posted for booting the Apple M4 on Linux but also not yet useful for any typical Apple Mac/MacBook usage on Linux...
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      AMD Ryzen AI Halo Box RGB LED Driver Inches Closer To The Mainline Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    The AMD Ryzen AI Halo mini PC powered by Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" began shipping this week. It features very nice Linux support out-of-the-box with the Debian-based Ryzen AI Developer Platform operating system. For those wishing to run their own x86_64 Linux distribution, one of the only caveats in the Linux support is quite small... No mainline kernel support yet for controlled the RGB LED light strip on the driver. But that driver is coming and will hopefully be mainlined soon...