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      NVIDIA NVK Driver Lands Improvement To Help With Valve's Gamescope

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:17

    Merged today for next quarter's Mesa 26.3 release is an improvement for the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver paired with the Nouveau kernel driver. This latest NVK improvement benefits usage of Valve's Gamescope micro-compositor and should help with performance during game recording and remote play...
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      X.Org Server 26.1 Moves Closer To Release As Half-Decade Update

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:29

    We're getting closer to the X.Org Server 26.1 stable release as the first new tagged feature release since X.Org Server 21.1 debuted back in October 2021. There have been some new features, many code reverts, and many bug fixes merged over the past five years that will culminate with the X.Org Server 26.1 stable release...
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      GNOME 51 Adds Support For Custom Pointer Acceleration Profiles

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:16

    As a last minute change ahead of next week's GNOME 51 desktop release, changes to Mutter and gsettings-desktop-schemas have now landed for supporting custom pointer acceleration profiles...
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      COSMIC Epoch 1.8 Provides Latest Fixes & Minor Improvements For This Rust Desktop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:04

    Released overnight was the newest version of the Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment developed by System76 as part of the effort on their Pop!_OS Linux distribution...
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      GNU Automake 1.19 Released With More Than One Year Worth Of Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:50

    For those continuing to use GNU Automake over the likes of Meson or CMake for your build system, Automake 1.19 is out today as the first new release in 15 months. Among the many fixes in this release is for a bug dating back 14 years...
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      Steam Client Beta Improves Big Picture Mode, Several Linux Enhancements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:27

    Tonight Valve released a big Steam client beta update with a number of new features and fixes...
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      ReactOS Dev Gets FEX Running For x86_64 Games On This "Open-Source Windows" OS Under ARM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    A ReactOS developer for this open-source operating system project striving for binary compatibility with Windows drivers and applications has achieved an intriguing software stack. With the experimental ReactOS ARM64 build for running on 64-bit ARM hardware like Raspberry Pi SBCs, he's paired that "open-source Windows" OS with the open-source FEX emulator for in turn being able to run Windows x64 games/apps on ReactOS atop native ARM hardware...
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      Running AMD openSIL + Coreboot On The First Available Ryzen AM5 Motherboard

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    Earlier this year the 3mdeb firmware consulting firm ported AMD openSIL CPU open-source silicon initialization library and Coreboot to an EPYC motherboard, the Gigabyte MZ33-AR1. Their next feat now achieved is bringing AMD openSIL and Coreboot to a desktop AMD Ryzen motherboard with their downstream Dasharo firmware solution. I have been running this alternative firmware on the MSI PRO B850P WiFi motherboard and it's been working out and performing well as an alternative to the closed-up motherboard firmware.
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      XWayland 26.1 RC2 Released For Testing With More Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    Following last month's initial release candidate of XWayland 26.1 with its many new features, a second release candidate is now available with a number of fixes...