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      Nocturne Is The Latest Music Player For GNOME To Hit v1.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:24

    While since GNOME 48 Decibels is the new audio player of the GNOME desktop, there is no shortage of other GNOME/GTK-aligned music players. Last month was the big Amerbol music player update and there are Lollypop and others. The latest GNOME-aligned music player now hitting the 1.0 milestone is Nocturne...
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      Hyprland 0.55 Released With Lua-Based Configuration, User-Defined Layouts

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:56

    Hyprland 0.55 is out today as a big feature update for this Wayland-based compositor...
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      FEX 2605 Brings Performance Improvements, Initial Snapdragon X2 Elite Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:58

    FEX 2605 is out this weekend as the newest monthly feature release to this emulator for running Linux x86_64 binaries on ARM64 (AArch64) devices. This is the open-source project sponsored by Valve and planned for use with the upcoming Steam Frame as well as being relevant to Linux gaming on other 64-bit ARM laptops and other devices...
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      Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 Improves Handling Of Desktop Apps, Other Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:45

    Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 is out this week as the latest maintenance release for this tablet/smartphone-focused Ubuntu distribution...
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      NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.17 Fixes Support For GB10 Powered Systems

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:19

    The open-source, community-developed NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver that provides a Video Acceleration API (VA-API) implementation built atop NVIDIA's NVDEC video decode interface is out with a new release. This is the open-source project that's motivated by getting accelerated video decoding to work within Mozilla Firefox and other apps when running with NVIDIA's packaged Linux driver...
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      Linux Enables Auto Counter Reload "ACR" For Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:12

    Merged as part of the perf subsystem fixes overnight is enabling Auto Counter Reload (ACR) functionality for upcoming Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids processors. This ACR enabling for Diamond Rapids "DMR" is happening in time for Linux 7.1-rc3 on Sunday while the work is also marked for back-porting to existing stable kernels...
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      KDE Plasma 6.7 To Support ICC Profiles In HDR Mode, Direct Scan-Out Improvement

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:53

    KDE developers continue to be quite busy in preparing additional Plasma 6.7 desktop features ahead of the stable release due out in mid-June...
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      FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 2 Brings Updated Zstd, Bug Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:22

    FreeBSD 15.1 continues working its way toward a stable release in June. Out today is FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 2...
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      HP Z6 G5 A Continues Working Out Well For Linux-Friendly, High-End Workstation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    In late 2023 I reviewed the HP Z6 G5 A workstation that at the time was built around the AMD Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 series and NVIDIA RTX Ada Generation graphics. More recently, HP has revised the Z6 G5 A workstation for the latest Threadripper PRO 9000 series and NVIDIA RTX PRO Blackwell graphics. HP sent over the upgraded Z6 G5 A workstation that I've been benchmarking the past few weeks. This workstation remains Linux-friendly down to convenient LVFS/Fwupd support and delivers stellar performance with the Zen 5 Threadripper and NVIDIA Blackwell combination.