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      Older AMD GPUs Score Another Open-Source Driver Win From Valve: DRM Format Modifiers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:49

    Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux open-source graphics driver team isn't done driving new improvements to aging AMD GCN 1.0/1.1 era graphics cards on Linux. Beyond enhancing display support for older APUs, transitioning GCN 1.0/1 GPUs from the legacy Radeon driver to modern AMDGPU driver, and a host of other fixes and optimizations for these old GPUs going back to the Radeon HD 7000 series, he has another notable addition that was announced today. These original GCN graphics cards with pending patches to the AMDGPU kernel driver and Mesa user-space can now allow for DRM format modifiers...
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      Linux Driver Posted For Intel Silicon Security Engine Interface "ISSEI"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    Since Intel Meteor Lake has been the Intel Silicon Security Engine to serve as a silicon root-of-trust for secure firmware loading, boot measurements, and similar functionality. This Intel Silicon Security Engine has been built on with Lunar Lake and Panther Lake as well as set to take on more importance with future Intel hardware platforms. We are now seeing a Linux driver come for this silicon RoT with the Intel Silicon Security Engine Interface (ISSEI)...
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      Fragnesia Made Public As Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    Following last week's disclosure of the Dirty Frag vulnerability for the Linux kernel, which only finished being patched up in mainline on Monday, Fragnesia is now public as a similar local privilege escalation (LPE) vulnerability...
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      GCC 16 Produces Faster Binaries Than GCC 15, Competitive Race With LLVM Clang 22

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    GCC 16.1 released at the end of April as the latest major, annual feature release to the GNU Compiler Collection. Early benchmarks showed some nice leads for GCC 16 over GCC 15. Continued testing of the new GCC 16 compiler has continued to show overall better performance of the resulting binaries than using GCC 15 on the same hardware and same compiler flags. That led many to wonder about the GCC 16 performance up against the latest LLVM/Clang open-source compiler, which is the focus of today's benchmarking showdown.
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      Intel Compute Runtime 26.18.38308.1 Brings More Xe3P Enableement, Nova Lake P Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    Intel on Tuesday released a new version of their open-source Compute Runtime for OpenCL and Level Zero support across their integrated and discrete graphics hardware...
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      Discord Taunts "Year Of The Linux Desktop" With Linux Client Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    Discord, the popular instant messaging and VoIP communication platform, announced some significant improvements being made to their Linux client...
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      NetBSD 11.0-RC4 Comes As Hopefully The Last Release Candidate

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    In addition to FreeBSD 15.1 releasing in the coming weeks, NetBSD 11.0 is also just around the corner as another prominent and major BSD update. NetBSD 11.0-RC4 is now available for last minute testing with this hoping to be the final release candidate...
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      KDE Receiving Over 1.2 Million EUR Investment From Sovereign Tech Fund

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 hours ago

    KDE today announced a significant investment into the project by Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund. KDE will be receiving €1,285,200 EUR (or roughly 1.5 million USD) over the years 2026 and 2027 to make some significant improvements into their software stack...
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      Wine Wayland Driver Merges Pointer Warp Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Wine's Wayland native driver has taken another step forward with now supporting the pointer warp "wp_pointer_warp_v1" protocol...