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      Linux 7.1 + Mesa 26.1 Performance With The Radeon RX 9070 GRE, RX 9070 XT

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 hours ago

    With this week's launch day review of the AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE, Ubuntu 26.04 with its Linux 7.0 and Mesa 26.0 default driver stack was used for testing. That choice was made since the Ubuntu 26.04 release is still fresh, the RDNA4-based RX 9070 GRE was working without issue there, and from other RDNA4 testing knowing there isn't much uplift from the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel or the current stable Mesa 26.1 OpenGL RadeonSI / Vulkan RADV drivers. But for those interested, here are those tests...
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      Linux 7.2 Will Be Able To Boot On Apple M3 Macs - But Far From Useful For End-Users

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 hours ago

    The upcoming Linux 7.2 mainline kernel is expected to be able to boot on Apple M3 devices including the M3-powered iMac and MacBook products. But before getting too excited it's still a long ways to go before it will actually be useful for any Apple M3 daily usage under Linux with the overall support at this stage still being very limited for these 2~3 year old Apple Macs...
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      Blender 5.2 LTS Enters Beta With New Features

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    Blender 5.2 is now available in beta form for this leading open-source 3D modeling software...
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      Qualcomm Gets The Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 Snapdragon X2 Laptop Working On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    For those interested in the prospects of running Snapdragon X2 laptops on Linux rather than Windows 11 on ARM, the Lenovo Yoga Slim 7x Gen11 has emerged as one of the initial X2 laptops with tentative Device Tree handling to allow Linux to boot on this latest-generation Qualcomm-powered laptop,..
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      AMD's GAIA Finally Has A Nice Multi-Device Experience For AI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 hours ago

    AMD's GAIA open-source project geared for building AI agents that run locally on your PC is out with a significant new feature release for Windows and Linux systems...
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      GCC Git Enables Additional Tuning For AMD Zen 6

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    In addition to Intel adjusting their Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids targets in GCC this week to deal with APX realities, AMD this week also adjusted some tuning bits for their Zen 6 "znver6" target...
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      systemd 261-rc3 Released With Individual Binaries Now Embedding dlopen ELF Metadata Note

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    The stable release of systemd 261 is quickly approaching for being found in H2'2026 Linux distributions...
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      AMD Submits Its Long-Awaited HDMI 2.1 FRL Support For Linux 7.2 AMDGPU

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    It's happening! The long-awaited HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link "FRL" support for handling higher resolutions and higher refresh rates on modern AMD Radeon graphics cards with the upstream AMDGPU open-source driver has been submitted to DRM-Next ahead of this month's Linux 7.2 merge window!..
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      Crown Engine 0.63 Restores Its OpenGL Renderer For Legacy Hardware Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    While not as well known as the likes of the Godot or O3DE open-source game engines, Crown Engine continues advancing as an open-source, C++-based game engine...