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      KDE Linux Prunes Its Insecure & Unused Software

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17:08

    With the end of the month comes a new KDE Linux status report from prominent KDE developer Nate Graham...
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      Linux 7.1-rc6 To Support The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II & Nova 2 Lite Controllers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:59

    Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc6 test kernel due out later today, this week's batch of input subsystem fixes have been sent out that includes enabling a few newer input devices...
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      Linux Might Finally Disable The Microsoft RNDIS Protocol Drivers In 2026

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:28

    Going back to early 2023 there were efforts to disable all the Linux drivers for Microoft's RNDIS protocol. Remote NDIS has proven to be a real security concern while superior, modern alternatives exist...
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      Wine-Staging 11.10 Fixes 14 Year Old Bug, Also Fixes Issue Of Some Games Being Too Dark

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:28

    Building off Friday's release of Wine 11.10 is now the Wine-Staging 11.10 experimental/testing flavor with nearly 300 additional patches atop that upstream code...
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      Servo 0.2 Released With Revamped Android Browser UI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:01

    For ending out the month of May is a new monthly release of Servo, the open-source, Rust-based browser engine being developed by Linux Foundation Europe stakeholders and the open-source community. There are many nice enhancements on the desktop side with Servo 0.2 while also improving the Android browser UI experience with Servo too...
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      Zrythm 2.0 Alpha Released For Rewriting The Digital Audio Workstation In C++ & Qt/QML

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:47

    Zrythm is a wonderful open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) application. Zrythm 1.0 released back in 2024 for this software catering from beginners to audio professionals. It's been a GTK-based application for years but the developers have been porting it to Qt6/QML. Released this weekend is the first Zrythm 2.0 alpha release that moves from GTK to Qt/QML...
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      Linux 7.1-rc6 To Hide The Documentation On "clearcpuid" Feature

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:29

    The clearcpuid= kernel parameter can be used to disable specific CPUID features for the kernel by specifying the targeted bit numbers of the feature(s) to disable or their flags from the /proc/cpuinfo output. The clearcpuid parameter, for example, has been useful for carrying out AVX-512 comparison benchmarks for apps that check for the presence of the AVX-512 extensions via /proc/cpuinfo. But moving forward the documentation on clearcpuid is being removed to discourage its use...
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      AV2 v1.0 Specification Released For Next-Gen Video Coding

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:17

    As expected given AOM Video Model indications last week, the AV2 v1.0 specification was officially released on Friday...
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      Various USB Quirks Merged Ahead Of Linux 7.1-rc6

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:53

    Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc6 kernel due out on Sunday, this week's round of USB fixes have been merged with various new device quirks added as well as some patches as a result of scanning tools...