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      FEX 2607 Optimizing For Yet-To-Be-Released ARM 256-bit SVE2 Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 hours ago

    The FEX Emulator that allows running Linux x86/x86_64 software on ARM64 (AArch64) systems, including the likes of Wine / Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for Windows gaming on ARM, is out with its newest monthly feature release. The Valve-backed project for running x86_64 games and other software on ARM for the upcoming Steam Frame and other more typical ARM Linux systems has been baking more optimizations and improvements...
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      Linux DRM Scheduler Patches Yield Massive Improvement For Job Submission Latency

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 hours ago

    A set of patches to the Linux kernel's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) scheduler that is shared among different kernel graphics drivers is showing the potential of delivering much lower job submission latency when the system is loaded with many runnable CPU processes...
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      4K @ 60 FPS USB Video Capture Finally Becomes Less Problematic On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    One area of Linux hardware testing I haven't explored much in many years has been modern USB video capture for the lack of said hardware. The last time I did much video capturing on Linux was during the Hauppauge PCI card days. It turns out though that USB video capture of 4K 60 FPS content has been a pain point under Linux but is finally smoothing out with newer versions of the Linux kernel...
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      Phoronix Premium Summer Sale To Help Support Linux Hardware Testing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 hours ago

    For those that missed Phoronix turning 22 years old last month when running a special to help support the site, a few readers mentioned recently they missed out on seeing the deal in time. Paired with the US Independence Day holiday and summer sales elsewhere, now through 10 July is a Phoronix Premium summer sale if wishing to view the site ad-free while supporting the daily open-source/Linux news coverage and relentless Linux hardware testing...
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      GNOME Lands ext-background-effect-v1 Support For Background Blur Effect

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    Added to the Wayland Protocols repository back in May of 2025 was the ext-background-effect-v1 protocol for background blur that had been under discussion since early 2024. The initial focus is on being able to apply a blur effect on a window's background or otherwise a specified screen region. GNOME 51 has now merged support for ext-background-effect-v1 with the latest Mutter code...
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      Linux 7.3 Adding More Graphics PCI IDs For Intel Nova Lake S

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    In addition to this week's drm-intel-next pull request beginning to lay out the Intel kernel graphics driver changes for Linux 7.3, the first drm-xe-next pull request was sent out on Friday. Intel Nova Lake enablement remains the hot area for the Intel GPU driver code...
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      Linux 7.2-rc2 Raising The Default RISC-V 64-bit CPU Limit To 256 Cores

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    A post merge-window change that landed in Linux Git overnight ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.2-rc2 release is bumping the default limit on the number of supported CPU cores for RISC-V 64-bit. Now by default Linux will support up to 256 cores with RISC-V 64-bit kernel builds...
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      KWin Compositor In KDE Plasma 6.8 Drops Support For Desktop OpenGL

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    Along with releasing Plasma 6.7.2 this week, KDE developers continue to be quite busy working on new features and improvements for the Plasma 6.8 release while also furthering along fixes for future Plasma 6.7 point releases...
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      GNOME Mutter GPU Reset Recovery Becoming A Reality

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 hours ago

    While typically quite rare encountering a GPU reset under Linux in most conditions, currently if encountering one under GNOME your session gets wiped out. But thanks to a Google Summer of Code "GSoC" project this year, GNOME's Mutter compositor is finally seeing real GPU reset recovery handling...