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      Linux 7.1-rc7 Released: Stable Hopefully Next Sunday

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:26

    Last week Linux 7.1-rc6 was larger than Linus Torvalds wished for and for Linux 7.1-rc7 it has come in still heavier than typically seen this late in the cycle, but is shrinking and making Linus comfortable in hopefully releasing Linux 7.1 stable next Sunday...
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      Firefox Merges Support For Vulkan Video Decoding

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    As an exciting development for GPU-accelerated video decoding within the Mozilla Firefox web browser, initial support for Vulkan Video has landed in the web browser!..
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      Wayland Protocols 1.49 Released With Improved Multi-GPU Support, Windows BT.2100

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    Simon Ser just published Wayland Protocols 1.49 as the latest version for this primary set of Wayland protocol definitions...
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      "Flatten The Pick" Linux Patches Progress For Better cgroup Scheduling While Linux Gaming

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    A month ago I wrote about Linux scheduler work to help boost gaming performance on old "potato" hardware with Intel engineer Peter Zijlstra noting that Linux cgroup scheduling has continued to be "a pain in the arse." This work continues advancing with a third iteration of these "flatten the pick" patches being posted...
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      Mesa 26.2 Lands VK_GOOGLE_display_timing Support For Direct Display Mode

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    The VK_GOOGLE_display_timing extension for obtaining display timing information that can be useful for frame-pacing and eliminating micro-stuttering in games now has direct display mode support with KHR_display for the Mesa Vulkan drivers. This now merged addition immediately benefits the Intel ANV and Radeon RADV drivers as well as the PowerVR, Turnip, and V3DV drivers too...
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      Linux 7.1-rc7 Adding More AMD Zen 6 CPU Models

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc7 test kernel release due out later today, a pull request has been submitted of some "x86 fixes" for this kernel release. Most notable with this pull request is acknowledging some additional AMD Zen 6 CPU models...
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      Some Broadcom V3D Graphics Support On Path For Removed Over Lack Of Testing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    Broadcom V3D 3.3 and V3D 4.1 graphics IP is set to be deprecated and removed from the V3D kernel graphics/display driver after the Mesa driver support was removed two years ago already. The situation in both cases amount to lack of hardware by developers for testing and with that likely no other known users of these particular Broadcom graphics in selects SoCs...
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      FreeBSD 15.1 Delayed To Mid-June Due To Critical x86 Bug Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    FreeBSD 15.1 was supposed to be out at the start of June but a second release candidate pushed it back by a week and now a third needed release candidate has pushed out the stable release by an additional week...
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      GNOME File Previewer Finally Switches TO GTK4, Adds Dark Mode

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    GNOME Sushi as the file previewer component for the GNOME Files (Nautilus) file manager has now been adapted to make use of GTK4 as well as delivering other enhancements for a nicer file previewing experience on GNOME...