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      KDE KWin Introduces Support For Server-Side Drop Shadows

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 hours ago

    The KDE Plasma 6.8 will be introducing support for server-side drop shadows with the feature recently having been merged to KWin...
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      AMD's GAIA Continues Striving To Be Your Ultimate AI Companion For Emails

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 hours ago

    Yesterday saw the release of AMD's Lemonade 11.0 local AI server as well as ROCm 7.14 as the first production release built using TheRock. Out today is AMD's GAIA 0.22 software as their latest AI software release in working toward the AMD Advancing AI event next week in California...
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      FreeBSD Intern Working On Porting AMD ROCm To The BSD World

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 hours ago

    An intern with the FreeBSD Foundation is working on porting AMD's ROCm compute stack to run on this popular BSD environment...
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      Wayland 1.26 Released With New Pointer Warp Event

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 hours ago

    Simon Ser just announced the stable release of the Wayland 1.26 release...
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      Microsoft Goes Nostalgic In Newest Open-Source Drop: Comic Chat Open-Sourced After 30 Years

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    Introduced in 1996 with Internet Explorer 3.0, Microsoft Comic Chat provided comic-like avatars driven IRC chat client. After 30 years, this proprietary IRC chat client that was removed in Internet Explorer 6.0, is now open-source software...
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      AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D Linux Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    Today the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D goes on sale as the lowest-price AMD 3D V-Cache processor being marketed for gamers. This 8-core / 16-thread processor features a 4.5GHz boost clock and a total of 104MB of cache while being based on the older Zen 4 architecture and coming in at about $329 USD. Here is a look at how the AMD Ryzen 7 7700X3D is performing on Linux.
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      Linux Floppy Driver For Apple's Super Woz Integrated Machine "SWIM" In Old Macs Improved

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    This is quite unexpected and was not on my bingo card for this year or even decade... The Linux driver for the floppy disk controller in Apple's legacy Super Woz Integrated Machine (SWIM) saw a large set of patches today for improving its performance and delivering various fixes...
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      New Linux Driver Improving Support For GETAC Rugged Laptops

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    GETAC manufactures a line of rugged/semi-rugged laptops for use in the public safety, defense, industrial manufacturing, oil and gas, and other industries. While shipping with Microsoft Windows out-of-the-box, a new driver has been proposed as GETAC MPMD as a minimal ACPI driver for improving support for these GETAC rugged laptops. In particular, the driver will allow the various programmable buttons on these laptops to work under Linux...
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      Ubuntu Kernel Team Warns Of Temporary AMD GPU Performance Regression Up To 42x

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    The Ubuntu Kernel Team issued a statement this morning to proactively warn Ubuntu Linux users on Ubuntu 26.04 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS HWE users that the next kernel point release will contain a performance regression for AMD GPUs in compute-heavy workloads with up to a 42x performance hit. The positive news is that due to this being an upstream regression in a Linux 7.0 point release, upstream stakeholders and other Linux distributions that more quickly shipped the problematic code already have a fix coming down the pipe...