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      FreeType Speeds-Up ClearType-Like LCD Filter Rendering By 40%

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:23

    The widely-used FreeType library used for rendering text onto bitmaps has landed a significant optimization for its LCD filtering code path for Microsoft ClearType-like rendering. Thanks to the improvement, the rendering can be around 40% faster...
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      AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Linux Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:00

    Ahead of tomorrow's official availability of the AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D at $499 USD, today the review embargo lifted. This faster variant to the existing Ryzen 7 9800X3D has been undergoing lots of Linux benchmarking the past two weeks for seeing the performance capabilities of this fastest 8-core 3D V-Cache processor.
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      Mesa NVK Driver Temporarily Disabling Support For Larger Pages Due To Bug

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:16

    Upstreamed to the Nouveau open-source kernel driver in Linux 6.19 was support for larger pages and with that compression support available with the larger page sizes. Subsequently the Mesa NVK open-source Vulkan driver began making use of the larger pages and compressed image support dependent upon the larger page sizes as it should help with performance. But for now it's being temporarily disabled due to a discovered issue...
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      Raspberry Pi Preparing To Introduce A Smart Display Module

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:01

    Raspberry Pi is gearing up to launch another new product: a Raspberry Pi Smart Display Module...
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      SoniceDE Looks To Preserve & Improve The X11-Specific KDE Code

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:53

    In light of Plasma 6.8 looking to go Wayland-exclusive and retire their X11 session support, SonicDE (formerly "KDE-Lite") is getting off the ground as a fork of the relevant X11 support within the KDE desktop...
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      FreeRDP 3.22 Released With Overhauled SDL-Based Client UI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:42

    FreeRDP 3.22 was just released as the newest version of this Apache-licensed open-source Remote Desktop protocol (RDP) implementation for interfacing with another computer over the network...
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      RFC Patches Posted For Klint Integration With The Linux Kernel: Rust-Based Linting Tool

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 05:00

    A request for comments (RFC) patch series was sent out today for providing Klint integration with the Linux kernel. Klint is a new linting tool written in the Rust programming language that helps with static code analysis for errors/bugs as well as code styling inconsistencies...
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      Apple M3 Progress On Linux: Asahi Can Boot To KDE Desktop - But No GPU Acceleration Yet

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 01:27

    While the Asahi Linux project has made good progress on bringing Linux to Apple Silicon hardware, much of the success and in turn upstreaming to the Linux kernel has been around the aging M1 and M2 Macs. Apple M3 and newer has been a struggle but progress is being made. One of the Asahi Linux developers shared the ability now to boot to the KDE Plasma desktop with the experimental Asahi Linux code on an M3 MacBook but without any GPU acceleration yet...
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      New Intel Linux Driver Workaround Halves Initial Game Load Time For MHW

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 21:16

    In addition to Mesa 26.1 today seeing Vulkan present timing support finally merged to help reduce game stuttering and separately another long-in-development Mesa merge request for DG2 / Meteor Lake to improve performance as much as 260% in some scenarios, there is another merge today to Mesa Git for enhancing Intel graphics on Linux. For Intel Linux gamers the newest Mesa code adds a new DriConf workaround that is capable of halving the initial game load time for at least one problematic game title...