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      Intel Graphics Driver Support For Xe3 "Peak Bandwidth Threshold" Feature In Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:12

    Intel today sent out their latest batch of kernel graphics driver updates that are ready for staging ahead of next month's Linux 7.3 merge window...
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      Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver To Windows

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:35

    Valve has been sponsoring Collabora engineers with early phase, exploratory work for trying to bring the open-source Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver to Microsoft Windows...
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      Vibe Coded X11 YSERVER Gets Steam Working, Full-Screen Games With Cinnamon

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:19

    A new software creation that debuted this summer was YSERVER as a modern X11 server written in Rust largely by AI via Claude Code. This YSERVER implementation has continued implementing more X11 protocol and other functionality to get more desktop environments and apps working surprisingly okay on this vibe coded X11 server. YSERVER 1.4 is now available as the latest in this quest...
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      FreeBSD's Kernel Still Has A Bit Of GPL Code While Its Base User-Space Is GPL-Free

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:57

    A few weeks ago there was excitement in the FreeBSD camp with FreeBSD 16 set to retire the last of its GPL code from the base system. While the retiring of the dialog code proclaimed that it was the last remaining piece of GPL software in the base system for FreeBSD, it turns out now that there is some GPL code within the FreeBSD kernel...
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      GCC To Decline Any Significant Contributions Made Via AI/LLMs - Except For Test Cases

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:43

    The GCC Steering Committee announced today that they have accepted the recommended policy of the GCC AI Policy Working Group, which means no "legally significant" code contributions made via AI/LLM agents will be accepted into this open-source compiler...
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      ARCTIC Launches Its New Fan Controller That Already Has Mainline Linux Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:38

    In over 22 years of Linux hardware reviews and testing at Phoronix, I have never been more excited for a fan controller... ARCTIC today launched their new Fan Controller and in making the product very unique for Linux users, it already has mainline Linux kernel support via a open-source driver contributed directly by ARCTIC...
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      Starling: A New Linux Desktop Written In Swift, Own Wayland Compositor & Written With AI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    There's yet another new open-source desktop option for Linux users in the era of new open-source projects largely written via AI/LLMs. Starling is this new project largely written via Claude and using the Swift programming language for the desktop while having its own Wayland compositor implemented in C. It also includes a built-in X11 server for handling X11 clients...
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      CachyOS Outperforming Windows 11, Slight Advantage Over Ubuntu & Fedora On AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    A recent mini PC being benchmarked at Phoronix is the BOSGAME VTA-439 that employs the new AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 470 Gorgon Point SoC. With the BOSGAME mini PC having shipped with Microsoft Windows 11, here are some comparison benchmarks of the out-of-the-box Windows 11 performance up against Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 44 while also tossing the rolling-release, highly-optimized Arch Linux based CachyOS into the benchmarking mix.
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      AMD P-State Linux Driver Patches Can Boost 1%-Low FPS Gaming Performance By 31%

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    A set of patches posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list implement per-core Energy Performance Preference (EPP) boosting for recently-busy CPUs. This feature is designed to have a dramatic impact for Linux gaming and helping especially with the 1% low frame-rates improving by 31.8% on the Valve Steam Deck...