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      Qualcomm Posts Patches For Enabling GPU Support In Their Snapdragon X2 Mahua SoC

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:25

    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 • 9 hours 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 • 12 hours 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 • 13 hours 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...
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      AMD Posts GCC Compiler Patches For AVX10V1AUX ISA Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    Following their recent AVX10_V2_AUX support for GCC as part of the bring-up for the AI Compute Extensions "ACE" in GCC 17, AMD compiler engineers this week posted the initial patches for enabling the AVX10V1AUX ISA support...
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      Fedora Discussion Raises The Idea Of Replacing LibreOffice With Collabora Office

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    One of the livelist Fedora Discourse community discussions in recent days -- or even in quite a period of time for that matter -- comes down to a user having suggested that Fedora replace LibreOffice by default with the downstream Collabora Office...
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      KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta 2 Released With Union Theming Engine Maturing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    Following the KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta from earlier this month, the second and last beta of the upcoming Plasma 6.8 desktop is now available for testing...
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      AlmaLinux Rolls Out New Software/Hardware Certification Portal, Self-Certify App

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    Two years ago RHEL-derived AlmaLinux announced a hardware certification program as part of their Certification Special Interest Group (SIG). They have now expanded their hardware certification program to include third-party software certification on AlmaLinux too plus a new app that users can install for self-certifying their system...
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      Linux Kernel Introducing New Taint Due To Fuzzing Bots Yielding Impractical Bug Reports

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    The Linux kernel is having to introduce a new taint flag "TAINT_FORCED_BIND" to deal with fuzzing bots like Syzbot abusing Linux's bind/unbind sysfs functionality and generating bug reports for impractical and not at all relevant hardware/driver combinations...