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      Simple Optimization For Linux 7.4 Can Open Files For Reading ~39% Faster

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:28

    More than two years in the making, Linux 7.4 is poised to introduce a patch that amounts to a rather simple optimization to avoid unnecessary/duplicative work that can net some nice gains when opening files for reading...
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      Wine-Staging 11.18 Adds New Patches To Further Improve WoW64

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:22

    Building off yesterday's Wine 11.18 bi-weekly development release is now Wine-Staging 11.18. This experimental flavor of Wine is presently carrying 273 extra patches over that upstream Git state, including some new patches for helping enhance the WoW64 support...
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      GNOME OS Turns To Zswap To Deal With OOM Issues, Progress On Geary Email Client Fork

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:38

    In addition to this week's GNOME 51 release were several other exciting developments in the GNOME desktop space...
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      Intel Xe Driver For Linux 7.4 Adds vRAM Health Check, Degraded Memory Handling

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:24

    Sent out this week were more Intel Xe kernel graphics driver changes targeting the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel cycle. The theme this week was around dealing with video memory health and also being able to better deal with hardware degraded video RAM...
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      KDE Plasma 6.8 Seeing More Polishing & Fixes, Plasma 6.9 Begins Seeing More Activity

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:10

    Following last week's Plasma 6.8 beta release, KDE desktop developers have spent this week mostly working on bug fixes as well as some early changes toward Plasma 6.9...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 Switches To The Linux 7.3 Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:50

    As a very pleasant surprise, the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release will now be powered by the Linux 7.3 kernel rather than their original plans and switch over to the Linux 7.2 kernel...
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      Wine 11.18 Continues Building Out Its NTOSKRNL Implementation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    Wine 11.18 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and apps on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...
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      Steam Frame Making Use Of Zink For OpenGL On Vulkan

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    Valve's Steam Frame VR headset that makes use of a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC with Adreno graphics is using the open-source "Turnip" Vulkan driver from Mesa as reported last year. For OpenGL it turns out that the Mesa Zink driver is being used on the Steam Frame for OpenGL atop the Vulkan API...
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      Google's "Painful To Maintain" Binder C Linux Driver Being Removed In Favor Of Rust

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Google's Binder driver written in the C programming language has long been part of the mainline kernel as the inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism used on Android. The past few years the Binder driver was rewritten in Rust as one of the first "real" drivers in the Rust programming language. The Rust Binder driver was upstreamed in Linux 6.18 and now for the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel cycle, the old Binder C-based driver is set to be retired...