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      BeOS-Inspired Haiku Now Supports Changing Audio Outputs Live, Other Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:55

    In addition to August bringing the long-awaited Haiku R1 Beta 6 release, there was also a lot of development progress on this BeOS-inspired operating system too during the course of the past month...
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      GIMP 3.2.6 Released With Some Early Preparations Toward Eventual GTK4 Port

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 5 hours ago

    The long-awaited GIMP 3.0 release for transitioning from GTK2 to GTK3 only saw its stable release last year. But with GTK4 already being out for years, GIMP developers have begun making some very early preparations toward an inevitable GTK4 port...
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      Mesa 26.3 RADV + RadeonSI Ready With DRM Format Modifiers For Older AMD GPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 hours ago

    Coming with Linux 7.3 is DRM format modifiers for GFX6 through GFX8 era GPUs covering the original Raddeon HD 7000 (GCN 1.0) graphics cards up through the Polaris and Fiji series. This work by Valve's Timur Kristóf is necessary for these older GPUs to support Vulkan-based Wayland compositors, better interoperability between OpenGL and Vulkan or other APis, compositors running on the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation, and other benefits. Now merged for Mesa 26.3 is the RadeonSI and RADV user-space side support for making use of the format modifiers on these older GPUs...
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      Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS Released With Linux 7.0 HWE Stack

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    For those continuing to make use of the Ubuntu 24.04 Long Term Support "LTS" series, Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS is out today as the newest point release...
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      Intel Xeon 600 Workstation Performance vs. AMD Threadripper 9000 In Nearly 400 Benchmarks

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 hours ago

    Last month I had the chance to test the Xeon 678X workstation processor as my first hands-on opportunity with the Xeon 600 "Granite Rapids WS" series. The Intel Xeon 678X was within the HP Z4 G6i workstation and used it for a number of different benchmarks. In that HP workstation review were also some comparison points to the likes of AMD Ryzen Threadripper while in this article are some much more concentrated benchmarks between the competing Xeon 600 series and AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series for workstations. Nearly 400 benchmarks plus power and frequency comparison too.
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      KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta Released With Many Great Improvements, Kup Backup Scheduler

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 hours ago

    Ahead of the stable release of Plasma 6.8 due out on 14 October that also marks the 30th anniversary of the KDE project, out today is the much anticipated beta release...
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      Intel BFF Driver Slated For Linux 7.4 Introduction

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    Last month I covered Intel posting a new driver named "BFF" for the Linux kernel. This BFF driver is for a new hardware feature debuting with next-gen Diamond Rapids processors for better dealing with aging CPU silicon where some bits may become stuck over time...
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      NVIDIA NVK Driver Lands Improvement To Help With Valve's Gamescope

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    Merged today for next quarter's Mesa 26.3 release is an improvement for the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver paired with the Nouveau kernel driver. This latest NVK improvement benefits usage of Valve's Gamescope micro-compositor and should help with performance during game recording and remote play...
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      X.Org Server 26.1 Moves Closer To Release As Half-Decade Update

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    We're getting closer to the X.Org Server 26.1 stable release as the first new tagged feature release since X.Org Server 21.1 debuted back in October 2021. There have been some new features, many code reverts, and many bug fixes merged over the past five years that will culminate with the X.Org Server 26.1 stable release...