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      Vulkan 1.4.350 Released With Three New Extensions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18:56

    Vulkan 1.4.350 released earlier today as the newest routine spec update. Beyond the usual minor fixes/clarifications, Vulkan 1.4.350 tacks on three more extensions...
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      AMD Posts HDMI 2.1 FRL Patches For Their AMDGPU Linux Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:44

    It's not complete HDMI 2.1 support but to much surprise hitting the mailing list today were official patches from AMD for implementing HDMI Fixed Rate Link "FRL" support for their kernel graphics driver. HDMI FRL as part of HDMI 2.1+ allows for higher bandwidth to support higher refresh rates and resolutions...
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      Linux 7.2 To Set Default DRM Scheduler Priority To "Fair", New AIE4 Hardware In AMDXDNA

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:26

    Even while the Linux 7.1 merge window was still ongoing this month, the initial "drm-misc-next" pull request to DRM-Next was sent out for beginning to queue new feature material toward the Linux 7.2 kernel coming this summer...
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      Shotcut 26.4 Released With Timeline Improvements, Vulkan Accelerated Speech-To-Text

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    Shotcut 26.4.30 shipped today as the latest and greatest version of this open-source, cross-platform video editor...
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      Linux Mint To Begin Publishing HWE ISOs For Better Hardware Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Due to Linux Mint moving to a longer development cycle with their next release not due until December, Linux Mint developers have decided to begin regularly publishing hardware enablement "HWE" ISOs with newer Linux kernel versions to provide better support for new hardware...
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      CachyOS Linux Performance Leading Over Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Fedora Workstation 44

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    It's not too entirely surprising given the aggressive stance that the CachyOS Linux distribution has taken on out-of-the-box performance, but for those curious, it continues largely leading over the newly-released Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 44 distributions for the leading performance on modern hardware.
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      AerynOS Updated With Linux 7.0, Gaming Optimized Kernel Flavor

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    AerynOS, the Linux distribution formerly known as Serpent OS, is out with a new monthly ISO refresh and details on other recent improvements to this original, from-scratch Linux distribution...
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      Linux 7.1-rc1 Showing Off Some Wins On AMD Ryzen Threadripper

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    My initial testing of the Linux 7.1 development kernel on various systems in the lab continues going well. Aside from one main regression in a synthetic micro-benchmark appearing on multiple systems, not seeing much in the way of Linux 7.1 performance concerns thus far and seeing some nice performance gains in select workloads...
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      GCC 16.1 Released With AMD Zen 6 Support, Algol 68 & Many C/C++ Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    GCC 16.1 is now available as the first stable release of GCC 16 as this year's major open-source GNU compiler feature release...