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      Microsoft Announces General Availability Of WSLC: Linux Containers On Windows

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17:09

    Following the public preview of Linux containers on WSL, Microsoft today announced the general availability of WSLC for supporting Linux containers on Windows...
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      Branch Target Reuse, BTR: New Spectre V2 Attack Targeting JIT Compilers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17:00

    It's been a while since any new Spectre vulnerabilities have come to light but that's changing today. The embargo has now lifted on BTR, Branch Target Reuse as a new Spectre-V2 attack affecting just-in-time (JIT) compilers...
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      New Ubuntu Concept ISO For Snapdragon Laptops Brings First X2 Laptop Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:15

    It's been a while since Canonical announced any new ISOs of their Ubuntu builds targeting Qualcomm Snapdragon X series laptops. But ahead of this week's Ubuntu 26.10 beta release, they shipped new Ubuntu 26.10 Snapdragon Concept images today with improved Snapdragon X1 laptop support as well as the initial Snapdragon X2 laptop support...
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      Meta Releases OpenZL 0.3 With Decompression Speed 144% Faster Than Zstd

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16:06

    Just shy of one year ago Meta announced OpenZL as a format-ware compression framework focused on delivering both high compression ratios and high speed compression/decompression. OpenZL has continued making more optimizations and out today is OpenZL v0.3 and advertising some huge gains over Zstandard (Zstd) that is also worked on by Meta engineers...
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      hw-monitor 0.6 Released With Per-Process GPU Usage & Memory Reporting

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:23

    For those after in-depth hardware and system monitoring support from the Linux desktop, hw-monitor continues to advance as one of the modern options. Released on Monday was hw-monitor 0.6 with per-process GPU reporting metrics when using capable DRM drivers like the AMDGPU, Intel i915 and Xe, and Nouveau drivers...
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      NOCL Making Progress As Mesa Gallium/OpenCL Atop NVIDIA CUDA

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:53

    In development the past year has been the Mesa Gallium3D API implemented atop NVIDIA's CUDA driver API. Initially named "CLUDA" and now going by "NOCL", this Mesa code paired with Rusticl is working well for OpenCL atop the NVIDIA proprietary driver as a new compute option...
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      Mesa 26.3 Enables Intel's New Jay Shader Compiler By Default, Compile Times 55% Faster Or 66% Faster Than Windows

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:31

    Over the past year Jay has been in development as a new open-source shader compiler for Intel GPUs. Alyssa Rosenzweig has been leading its development since joining Intel in 2025. For Mesa 26.3 the Jay shader compiler is being enabled by default for modern Intel graphics hardware and is around ~10% faster than the existing BRW compiler code...
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      BPF-Based Display Panel Drivers Being Explored For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:10

    BPF-based HID drivers have helped to deliver quirks/fixes for different HID devices more quickly than being bound by the conventional kernel cycle. Loading these eBPF programs from user-space have shown a lot of potential for innovating and iterating more quickly with BPF drivers for different subsystems. The latest area now seeing the BPF treatment are display panel drivers...
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      D7VK Reaches Maturity For Older Direct3D APIs Atop Vulkan

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:43

    D7VK as a Vulkan-based implementation of the Microsoft Direct3D 7 / 6 / 5 / 3 APIs for Linux/Wine (Steam Play) usage is out with version 2.3 and the developer now believing its marking the point that the project is rather mature...