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      Dell Now Shipping Laptop With Qualcomm NPU On Linux Ahead Of Windows 11

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 22:23

    Dell announced today that their new Pro Max 16 Plus laptop with a Qualcomm discrete NPU is now shipping... That is if you are running Ubuntu Linux while the Windows 11 pre-load option is expected in early 2026. An exciting twist with the Linux version of the Dell Pro Max 16 Plus shipping before Microsoft Windows...
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      Canonical Gets Flutter Up And Running On RISC-V For Ubuntu

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 21:04

    Canonical has been bullish on RISC-V with Ubuntu being one of the most common Linux distributions endorsed by RISC-V board vendors. Canonical also has been bullish on the Flutter toolkit for crafting their desktop installer UI and other modern UI/app interfaces. But these two together haven't panned out with Flutter not currently supporting RISC-V. Canonical has submitted pull requests now for enabling RISC-V support with Flutter...
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      PHP 8.5 Released With New Pipe Operator, New URI Extension & Clone With

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 19:19

    PHP 8.5 is out today as the annual major feature release for this popular scripting language...
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      Updated Steam Runtime Switches To Debian 13 Libraries, SDL2 Using Compatibility Layer

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 17:34

    An updated version of the Steam Linux Runtime 4 branch was rolled out that has now shifted from Debian 11 to Debian 13 libraries for some significant upgrades. In the process more libraries have gone x86_64 only in foregoing the i386 builds. In addition, the SDL 2 library support for the Steam Runtime is now provided by sdl2-compat as the compatibility layer for SDL2 atop SDL3...
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      Linux 6.18 Sees Late Improvements For Xbox Ally, Lenovo Legion Go, & Alienware Laptops

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 17:11

    We're closing in on the Linux 6.18 stable kernel release likely in little more than one week (30 November barring any delays) and today's batch of x86 platform driver updates is bringing some new hardware support as well as some notable consumer device fixes/improvements...
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      Linux 6.19 Slated To Land "mm/cid" Rewrite That Has Very Positive Performance Potential

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 15:44

    A set of Linux kernel patches posted back in October for rewriting the kernel's memory-mapped concurrency ID code for some nice performance wins looks like it will land for Linux 6.19. This is the code that prominent Intel engineer Thomas Gleixner found to yield up to an 18% improvement for the PostgreSQL database. My testing of this "mm/cid" code has also shown some nice performance wins too...
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      VKD3D 1.18 Released With Numerous Improvements For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 14:50

    VKD3D 1.18 is now available for this Direct3D 12 implementation that is part of the upstream Wine project. The VKD3D 1.18 release also comes just ahead of next month's feature freeze for the upcoming Wine 11.0 stable release...
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      Firefox 147 Will Support The XDG Base Directory Specification

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 13:19

    A 21 year old bug report requesting support of the XDG Base Directory specification is finally being addressed by Firefox. The Firefox 147 release should respect this XDG specification around where files should be positioned within Linux users' home directory...
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      Linux 6.19 Nova Driver Landing Boot42 Support For Next-Gen NVIDIA GPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 11:40

    Along with getting the NVIDIA GSP fully booted and initialized for Ampere GPUs with the Nova driver code coming to Linux 6.19, this next kernel version is also beginning to make preparations for eyeing next-generation NVIDIA GPU support on this open-source driver...