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      AMD Submits Its Long-Awaited HDMI 2.1 FRL Support For Linux 7.2 AMDGPU

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:29

    It's happening! The long-awaited HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link "FRL" support for handling higher resolutions and higher refresh rates on modern AMD Radeon graphics cards with the upstream AMDGPU open-source driver has been submitted to DRM-Next ahead of this month's Linux 7.2 merge window!..
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      Crown Engine 0.63 Restores Its OpenGL Renderer For Legacy Hardware Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:16

    While not as well known as the likes of the Godot or O3DE open-source game engines, Crown Engine continues advancing as an open-source, C++-based game engine...
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      LLVM To Begin Offering Zstd-Compressed Binaries For "Significantly Reduced" Downloads

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:06

    The LLVM project will begin offering Zstd-compressed archives of their binaries in addition to the existing XZ-compressed releases. LLVM developers are finding Zstd working out great with "significantly reduced" download sizes...
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      Steam Survey For May 2026 After Delay: Linux Just Under 4%

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:38

    Back in March Steam on Linux skyrocketed to 5.33% with more than double the Steam gaming marketshare of macOS. Then for April Steam on Linux pulled back to a still-great 4.52%, well above the times when Steam on Linux was at 2% or less for many years. Now the May 2026 figures have been published overnight by Valve...
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      Widely-Used libinput Updated Due To Arbitrary Root Code Execution

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1:46

    The libinput input handling library used by both X.Org and Wayland environments on modern Linux desktops is out with a new security fix release. A new vulnerability is now public allowing for arbitrary root code execution...
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      3mdeb Keeps Making Progress On Their Coreboot + AMD openSIL Port To Ryzen MSI Board

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:59

    Following thr 3mdeb consulting firm's recent release of their Dasharo build of Coreboot and AMD openSIL for the Gigabyte MZ33-ARI1 EPYC 9005 series motherboard, the same engineers continue working on their port of Coreboot and the openSIL CPU silicon initialization library to a Ryzen 9000 series consumer motherboard...
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      COSMIC Now Implements Wayland Pointer Constraints For Better Gaming Experience

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    COSMIC Epoch 1.0.15 was released today and while it doesn't yet contain the new "Frosted Glass" option for the desktop UI, COSMIC Epoch 1.0.15 does contain some other notable enhancements...
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      AMD EPYC 8635P "Sorano" Benchmarks: Significant Upgrade Opportunity For EPYC 8004 Servers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    After announcing the AMD EPYC 8005 "Sorano" series back in February, AMD recently began shipping these Zen 5 successors to the EPYC 8004 "Siena" line-up. With the EPYC 8005 product stack ranging from 8 to 84 cores and being drop-in upgrades for EPYC 8004 servers after a BIOS update, these are quite some interesting processors for those after a single socket, performant server. Up today are benchmarks of the EPYC 8635P as the flagship 84 core Sorano CPU.
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      Intel Preps GCC Function Multi-Versioning To Support APX & AVX10.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    Along with some GCC compiler tuning for Nova Lake and Diamond Rapids to deal with some new APX capabilities not proving beneficial for performance, new patch activity today is preparing GCC for function multi-versioning (FMV) for the AVX10.2 and APX instruction set extensions...