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      Valve Introduces Pyrowave Video Codec In Beta For Low Latency Streaming

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1:00

    Valve's Steam client beta today introduced Pyrowave as an experimental video codec for high bandwidth, low-latency video streaming...
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      AMD Begins Preparing Open-Source Linux Driver For Graphics Cards With GDDR7

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 hours ago

    AMD sent out their latest Linux kernel graphics driver patches today for enabling some new hardware IP blocks. And as part of that, preparing for GDDR7 video memory with the AMDGPU driver...
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      Gravity Linux Aims To Provide A Nice Experience For Apple M4 & Newer

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 hours ago

    There's a new Linux distribution focused on supporting Linux on Apple Silicon Macs. Gravity Linux is this new distribution that is a spin of Fedora Remix and is catering to the still-experimentally-supported Apple M4 Macs and newer. In addition to leveraging Asahi Linux code and reverse engineering, Gravity Linux also leverages OpenAI Codex and Claude Code...
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      Patches Posted For Enabling Apple Silicon Mac Speaker & Headset Jack Support On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 hours ago

    While the downstream Asahi Linux kernel has offered working speaker support and headset jack capabilities on Apple Silicon Macs, the mainline Linux kernel hasn't supported this functionality. But a set of 28 patches sent out today on the Linux kernel mailing list are working toward mainlining this important functionality for using Apple Macs on the upstream Linux desktop...
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      Nebula Matrix Network Driver Queued Ahead Of Linux 7.4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 hours ago

    NBL is a new Ethernet networking driver destined to premiere in the upcoming Linux 6.4 kernel for supporting Nebula Matrix NICs...
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      AMD EPYC Server Performance Up ~8% Geo Mean For 2026 With Linux Kernel Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    With the in-development Linux 7.3 kernel showing some nice performance improvements over Linux 7.2 in different areas, Linux 7.2 also having brought some nice gains especially for I/O, and the preceding kernels also having seen some nice performance optimizations this year, I wanted to measure how far the Linux kernel performance has evolved so far in 2026. Today's article is looking at that with how the Linux kernel performance has evolved since the Linux 6.18 LTS kernel at the end of 2025 to the current Linux 7.3 kernel.
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      Patches Posted With Aim To Mainline Linux Kernel Support For The Amazon Kindle 4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    Amazon released the Kindle 4 back in 2011 with a 6-inch E-ink display, 2GB internal storage, and running a modified version of Linux. In the years since the Amazon Kindle 4 has been jail-broken and there are some customized Linux distributions with a patched kernel to run on the Kindle 4. Now in 2026 there are patches on the Linux kernel mailing list looking to mainline support for that fifteen year old e-reader device...
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      Orphaned VMs: Running VMs Uninterrupted While Host Kernel Is Offline For Reboots/Updates

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    Here's some very intriguing work taking place by a Google engineer... With the hyperscalers and other cloud providers pushing for zero-downtime, a set of experimental patches for "Orphaned VMs" allow for the virtual machines to continue to run while the host kernel is offline for security updates or rebooting with the Live Update Orchestrator. The experimental patches and request for feedback from other Linux kernel stakeholders was sent out this weekend on Orphaned VMs...
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      GNU Wget 2.3 Released With --progress=dot, OS/2 Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    GNU Wget2 is up to version 2.3 today with the first new release of 2026 for this popular command-line tool for non-interactive file downloading and being able to easily fetch website contents...