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      COSMIC Epoch 1.5 Brings More Fixes & Improvements To System76's Desktop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:21

    The System76 and Pop!_OS developers continue quickly iterating on their Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment...
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      DRM Format Modifiers For Old AMD GPUs Coming With Linux 7.3: Thanks Valve

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    Sent out today was another week's worth of features and other code changes to the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver. We are nearing the cut-off of new feature material for next month's Linux 7.3 kernel but there is some nice feature work in store for this week...
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      Steam Client Adds HDR Streaming On Steam Deck OLED, AV1 Video Streaming

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    Today's Steam client beta update brings some new game streaming enhancements for Linux gamers...
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      Intel Graphics Driver Support For Xe3 "Peak Bandwidth Threshold" Feature In Linux 7.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    Intel today sent out their latest batch of kernel graphics driver updates that are ready for staging ahead of next month's Linux 7.3 merge window...
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      Valve Sponsors Work Bringing Open-Source RADV Driver To Windows

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    Valve has been sponsoring Collabora engineers with early phase, exploratory work for trying to bring the open-source Radeon Vulkan "RADV" driver to Microsoft Windows...
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      Vibe Coded X11 YSERVER Gets Steam Working, Full-Screen Games With Cinnamon

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    A new software creation that debuted this summer was YSERVER as a modern X11 server written in Rust largely by AI via Claude Code. This YSERVER implementation has continued implementing more X11 protocol and other functionality to get more desktop environments and apps working surprisingly okay on this vibe coded X11 server. YSERVER 1.4 is now available as the latest in this quest...
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      FreeBSD's Kernel Still Has A Bit Of GPL Code While Its Base User-Space Is GPL-Free

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    A few weeks ago there was excitement in the FreeBSD camp with FreeBSD 16 set to retire the last of its GPL code from the base system. While the retiring of the dialog code proclaimed that it was the last remaining piece of GPL software in the base system for FreeBSD, it turns out now that there is some GPL code within the FreeBSD kernel...
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      GCC To Decline Any Significant Contributions Made Via AI/LLMs - Except For Test Cases

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    The GCC Steering Committee announced today that they have accepted the recommended policy of the GCC AI Policy Working Group, which means no "legally significant" code contributions made via AI/LLM agents will be accepted into this open-source compiler...
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      ARCTIC Launches Its New Fan Controller That Already Has Mainline Linux Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    In over 22 years of Linux hardware reviews and testing at Phoronix, I have never been more excited for a fan controller... ARCTIC today launched their new Fan Controller and in making the product very unique for Linux users, it already has mainline Linux kernel support via a open-source driver contributed directly by ARCTIC...