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      Rusticl Now Supports cl_ext_float_atomics

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:13

    With the recent release of Mesa 26.2 the Rusticl OpenCL driver now supports OpenCL 3.1 on RadeonSI, LLVMpipe, Zink, Intel Iris, and Apple Asahi. But the work is not over and more improvements to this Rust-based, modern OpenCL driver continue to land...
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      Claude Opus Helped Debug & Fix Lack Of Audio On Linux For HP OmniBook X Flip 14

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:59

    The HP OmniBook X Flip 14-kc0xxx is an AMD Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" powered laptop. While most AMD Strix Point laptops work fine on modern Linux distributions, with this particular HP OmniBook X there is no working audio with current mainline Linux kernel builds. With Claude Opus 5 acting as a debugging assistant and coding agent, patches are now pending to correct the audio support for this HP OmniBook X Flip 14 laptop to function on Linux...
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      Open-Source NVIDIA "Nova" Driver Sees More Functionality For Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1:08

    Sent to DRM-Next this week was the DRM Rust core and driver changes targeting the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window. There continues to be a lot of DRM core infrastructure work happening for Rust integration plus two leading Rust DRM drivers of Nova for open-source NVIDIA GPU support as the successor to Nouveau and then Tyr as the in-development Arm Mali driver...
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      Fedora CoreOS To Enable systemd-oomd & zRAM Swap By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    Fedora's CoreOS as their container-optimized operating system will be moving to enable systemd-oomd by default with Fedora CoreOS 45. Additionally, swap on zRAM will be enabled by default too...
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      Five More Lenovo Laptops To Report Fan Sensors With Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    In addition to more ASUS motherboards having working sensors with Linux 7.3, this next kernel version will also get several more Lenovo laptop models to be reporting their fan sensor information under Linux...
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      Linux 7.3 Bringing A KCFI Optimization To Benefit Older Intel CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    Expected to be merged during the upcoming Linux 7.3 merge window is a Kernel Control Flow Integrity (KCFI) improvement intended to benefit older Intel processors...
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      Qt Toolkit To Introduce Edge AI Submodule, Initially For Vision AI With Qt

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    The Qt Group has been working on various AI integrations for the Qt toolkit in recent times like a QML profiler skill for agentic development to help with performance profiling. They have also worked on Qt AI coding assistants and AI agents in the Qt Creator integrated development environment. Their latest AI use is now preparing to introduce a new module in the Qt toolkit itself for edge AI inferencing...
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      Intel Xeon 678X Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 26.04 Performance With The HP Z4 G6i

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    HP recently launched their Z4 G6i workstation that I have been testing out the past few weeks. The HP Z4 G6i is powered by Granite Rapids WS with the review unit specifically being powered by the Intel Xeon 678X. As the unit shipped with Microsoft Windows 11 Pro and this being the first time I've had my hands on Granite Rapids WS, I took the opportunity to run some Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS performance benchmarks to see how the operating system performance compares for this 48 core / 96 thread workstation processor.
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      Linux Mint Improves Kernel Management & Setting System-Wide Environment Variables

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    Linux Mint is out today with their July 2026 status update that highlights all the improvements made to their distribution over the past month...