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      COSMIC Now Implements Wayland Pointer Constraints For Better Gaming Experience

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18:53

    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 • 15:36

    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 • 13:40

    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...
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      Ubuntu To Ship Newer AMD ROCm Updates Via SRUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:44

    As noted back in April, with Ubuntu 26.04 LTS it's now possible to simply "apt install rocm" on Ubuntu Linux for installing AMD's open-source GPU compute stack. But as prominently noted there, what's shipped right now in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is already months out of date compared to upstream ROCm. Fortunately, Canonical shared today that moving forward they plan to ship newer ROCm versions as stable release updates (SRUs)...
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      NVIDIA Hopper & Blackwell GPU Support Moves Closer For Open-Source Nova Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:26

    While the upstream, open-source Nouveau driver already supports NVIDIA's Hopper and Blackwell graphics processors with the GPU System Processor (GSP) code path, the bring-up of the Rust-written Nova driver remains ongoing. Out this week is the 12th iteration of the Hopper and Blackwell enablement for this future open-source NVIDIA Linux driver...
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      Intel XPU Manager Adds Support For Arc Pro B65 + Arc Pro B70

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:17

    Intel this week rolled out new versions of their open-source XPU Manager and Linux NPU driver software...
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      Microsoft Announces Coreutils For Windows: Derived From Rust Coreutils

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:47

    As another interesting takeaway from this week's Microsoft Build 2026 conference beyond their open-source Intelligent Terminal project is Coreutils for Windows. Microsoft is maintaining a fork of Rust Coreutils for Windows to ease the developer experience across Windows / WSL / macOS / Linux...
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      Canonical Now Considers Their Steam Snap For ARM64 To Be Stable

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:50

    At the beginning of the year Canonical announced a Steam Snap package for Ubuntu ARM64 that leverages the FEX emulator for running x86/x86_64 games on ARM64. After months of testing and improvements, they now consider their Steam Snap for ARM64 to be stable...
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      Marek Olšák Scores Up To 100% Pixel Throughput Optimization For RADV Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:30

    Marek Olšák who had been a longtime AMD Linux driver engineer specializing in the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, recently began working for Valve on their Linux graphics driver team. His focus has understandably shifted to working on the RADV Vulkan driver and one of his early optimizations now with the Valve hat on is up to a 100% pixel throughput optimization for the RADV driver, which is already quite well optimized thanks to years of investment from Valve, Red Hat, and others...