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      Kconfirm Is On A Quest To Clean Up The Linux Kernel's Configuration System

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:29

    New tooling being worked on for possible mainline Linux kernel inclusion is Kconfirm as a new tool for detecting misusage and efforts stemming from Kconfig, the configuration system for kernel builds...
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      Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 3.0.20260506 With Many Security Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.20260506 on Saturday in order to ship the latest security fixes affecting a wide variety of open-source software projects...
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      Nocturne Is The Latest Music Player For GNOME To Hit v1.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    While since GNOME 48 Decibels is the new audio player of the GNOME desktop, there is no shortage of other GNOME/GTK-aligned music players. Last month was the big Amerbol music player update and there are Lollypop and others. The latest GNOME-aligned music player now hitting the 1.0 milestone is Nocturne...
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      Hyprland 0.55 Released With Lua-Based Configuration, User-Defined Layouts

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    Hyprland 0.55 is out today as a big feature update for this Wayland-based compositor...
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      FEX 2605 Brings Performance Improvements, Initial Snapdragon X2 Elite Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    FEX 2605 is out this weekend as the newest monthly feature release to this emulator for running Linux x86_64 binaries on ARM64 (AArch64) devices. This is the open-source project sponsored by Valve and planned for use with the upcoming Steam Frame as well as being relevant to Linux gaming on other 64-bit ARM laptops and other devices...
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      Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 Improves Handling Of Desktop Apps, Other Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 is out this week as the latest maintenance release for this tablet/smartphone-focused Ubuntu distribution...
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      NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.17 Fixes Support For GB10 Powered Systems

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    The open-source, community-developed NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver that provides a Video Acceleration API (VA-API) implementation built atop NVIDIA's NVDEC video decode interface is out with a new release. This is the open-source project that's motivated by getting accelerated video decoding to work within Mozilla Firefox and other apps when running with NVIDIA's packaged Linux driver...
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      Linux Enables Auto Counter Reload "ACR" For Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    Merged as part of the perf subsystem fixes overnight is enabling Auto Counter Reload (ACR) functionality for upcoming Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids processors. This ACR enabling for Diamond Rapids "DMR" is happening in time for Linux 7.1-rc3 on Sunday while the work is also marked for back-porting to existing stable kernels...
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      KDE Plasma 6.7 To Support ICC Profiles In HDR Mode, Direct Scan-Out Improvement

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    KDE developers continue to be quite busy in preparing additional Plasma 6.7 desktop features ahead of the stable release due out in mid-June...