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      KDE Plasma 6.8 Continues With Last Minute Tweaks & Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:56

    Even with this week's KDE Akademy conference and releasing KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta 2, KDE developers still found time to land last minute changes for Plasma 6.8 plus ongoing early work toward Plasma 6.9...
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      New FUTEX Syscalls Back To Being Worked On For Helping Valve's ARM64 Gaming Ambitions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 hours ago

    Going back to last year the Igalia open-source consulting firm has been working on enhancing the Linux kernel to help Steam Play gaming on ARM64 and ensuring the FEX emulator is operating efficiently for x86/x86_64 games running on the likes of the Steam Frame. After other kernel work in recent months, there's finally an updated round of the FUTEX get_robust_list2 and set_robust_list2 system call patches...
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      GDB 18.1 Debugger Brings Better Windows Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    GDB 18.1 is out today as the newest version of the GNU Debugger that works across C/C++, Fortran, Rust, and other languages like Go, Ada, and more...
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      Redox OS Adds IO_uring-Like API, NUMA & Gets QEMU Working

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    The Redox OS open-source, Rust-based operating system has seen a lot of activity in recent weeks with many notable improvements landing...
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      Approaching A 10 Second Linux Kernel Build

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    The coffee window is closing. Going back many years with the time it's taken to compile the Linux kernel has been a well known opportunity for a coffee break or even eating a meal during the lengthy Linux kernel build process. Even when the Linux kernel was much smaller than it is today, with the hardware at the time it would often be a very time consuming process... Thus incredible to think that we are now on the horizon of a ten second clean, default kernel build on Linux x86_64.
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      Qualcomm Posts Patches For Enabling GPU Support In Their Snapdragon X2 Mahua SoC

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Yesterday Qualcomm posted open-source GPU driver patches for their Adreno 850 GPU one day after being announced with the Snapdragon 8 Elite Extreme Gen 6. Yesterday Qualcomm also announced their Snapdragon X2 Linux support plans. Today they have posted the GPU enablement patches for what's found in the Mahua SoC for lower-tier Snapdragon X2 SoCs...
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      ReactOS Lands Significant DirectX Stack Update From Wine For Enabling More Games

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    The open-source ReactOS project striving to provide binary compatibility with Microsoft Windows applications/games as well as drivers took a huge step forward today with landing a significant update to its DirectX stack from code leveraged from the Wine project...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 Delivers Some Nice Gains For Intel Panther Lake / Framework Laptop 13 Pro

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    For those with a Framework Laptop 13 Pro or another Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" laptop, the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release is delivering some nice out-of-the-box improvements over Ubuntu 26.04 LTS.
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      COSMIC Epoch 1.9 Brings New Image Viewer & On-Screen Keyboard

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    COSMIC Epoch 1.9 was released last night as the newest version of the System76-sponsored, Rust-based desktop environment. COSMIC Epoch 1.9 release notes only became available today and it's a big one with new apps and improvements to existing offerings...