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      KDE Plasma 6.7 Preps More Improvements While Plasma 6.6.1 Fixes Begin Accumulating

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1:18

    This week marked the release of KDE's Plasma 6.6 desktop as a very successful release that overall is in very robust shape and performing well. While Plasma 6.6 overall is in great shape, there are various bugs - including crash fixes - that have already been queued for the upcoming Plasma 6.6.1. KDE developers are also quite busy on the trek toward Plasma 6.7...
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      Intel Hiring More Linux Developers - Including For GPU Drivers / Linux Gaming Stack

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    As some good news out of Intel today on the Linux/open-source side following last year's layoffs, they're hiring for some new Linux software development roles -- including for enhancing their Linux graphics driver stack that also includes a focus on Linux gaming with the likes of Valve's Proton (Steam Play)...
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      Drgn v0.1 Released For Very Versatile Programmable Debugger

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    Drgn is the programmable debugger developed by Meta engineer Omar Sandoval that has proven quite versatile and popular with Linux kernel developers and others. After nearly two dozen releases already, Drgn v0.1 was released this week as another big step forward for this open-source debugger...
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      Linux 7.0 Shows Significant PostgreSQL Performance Gains On AMD EPYC

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    When beginning some early Linux 7.0 kernel benchmarking this week for looking at its performance in its early development state, I started off testing on Core Ultra X7 "Panther Lake" in being hopeful for better performance with the maturing Arc B390 Xe3 graphics and the like. But I ended up finding Intel Panther Lake seeing some performance regressions on Linux 7.0. So next up I turned to an AMD EPYC Turin server since if regressions existed there at least it's much faster to carry out bisecting of the kernel performance regressions. But with that initial testing wrapped up, I didn't find any regressions like with Panther Lake and standing out were some rather enticing PostgreSQL database server performance benefits when running atop Linux 7.0.
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      GNOME 50 Lands Updated Wayland Color Management v2 Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    Following GNOME 50's Mutter merging sdr-native color mode support for wide color gamut displays this week, another late addition to Mutter has now been merged ahead of next month's GNOME 50 stable release...
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      Linux Begins Seeing Early Preparations For PCIe 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    While we are on the horizon of seeing PCI Express 6.0 devices, there are already early Linux kernel patches beginning to surface for PCI Express 7.0...
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      Linux 7.0 Brings Apple Type-C PHY, Snapdragon X2 & Rockchip HDMI 2.1 FRL Additions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    Ahead of the Linux 7.0 merge window ending this weekend, the PHY updates were merged this week for this next major kernel release. There are some notable PHY additions particularly for Apple Silicon USB Type-C support as well as additions for Qualcomm's new Snapdragon X2 laptop SoCs...
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      Ubuntu 26.04 Begins Its Feature Freeze

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    Canonical engineer Utkarsh Gupta announced today on the behalf of the Ubuntu Release Team that the Ubuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon" has entered its feature freeze...
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      Cloud Hypervisor 51 Brings Performance Improvements, Better QCOW2 v3 Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    Cloud Hypervisor 51 is now available for this Rust-based VMM focused on secure cloud computing. For what began as an Intel open-source project years ago is continuing to be largely led by Microsoft, Cyberus Tech, Tencent, Ant Group, and others...