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      Coreboot 26.06 Brings Support For Intel Nova Lake, AMD Strix Halo & 31 New Boards

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:39

    Coreboot 26.06 is out today as the latest quarterly feature release for this software project providing open-source system firmware support for a growing number of platforms...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 2 Released For Monthly Testing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:25

    Daily ISOs of Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" continue to be published, but for those preferring something a bit more regulated, out today is Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 2 as the second monthly ISO image...
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      Linux Foundation & Others Launch "Akrites" To Defend Open-Source Software From AI-Enabled Exploits

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    The Linux Foundation along with others like Amazon, Anthropic, OpenAI, NVIDIA, Microsoft, Red Hat, and others have joined forces to launch Akrites. The Akrites project is aiming to help defend critical open-source software from the brisk pace of new AI/LLM-discovered software bugs and vulnerabilities in ensuring that said issues are effectively addressed before they can be exploited by bad actors...
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      DXVK 3.0 Released With DXBC-SPIRV For Shader Compilation, Descriptor Heaps By Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    Philip Rebohle announced the release today of DXVK 3.0 as the latest major feature release for this Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 implementation atop the Vulkan API for use by Wine and Valve's Steam Play (Proton)...
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      Academy Software Foundation Announces The "Wayland For Artists Working Group"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    The Academy Software Foundation that advances open-source efforts for the VFX/cinema industry and more with the likes of OpenVDB, OpenMoonRay, Open Shading Language, and other projects, has announced the formation of a new working group to help with Wayland adoption for artists...
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      Updated Raspberry Pi OS With Linux 6.18 LTS Delivers Some Performance Benefits

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    Last week marked the release of an updated Raspberry Pi OS that moved to Linux 6.18 LTS from its former Linux 6.12 kernel base along with making a number of other package updates. Given the jump to the newer Long Term Support kernel and other improvements, I ran some fresh benchmarks on the Raspberry Pi 5 (Raspberry Pi 500+) to see the performance difference out of the updated operating system.
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      Servo 0.3 Released With The Demo Browser Becoming More Useful

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 hours ago

    Servo 0.3 released today as the latest version of this modern browser engine developed in Rust. With Servo 0.3 the demo servoshell browser is becoming more useful and supporting additional modern web features while Servo also continues to possess much potential moving forward on the embedded front as an alternative to the likes of the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF)...
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      Linux 7.2 Drops Ancient PROFIBUS Driver: Ported From SCO Unix In 1998, Unused For Years

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Linux 7.2 is continuing the trend of removing obsolete hardware drivers for which the code hasn't seen any maintenance in years and there are no believed users left of said drivers, especially those that would be running modern mainline versions of the Linux kernel. The char/misc changes merged dropped two more obsolete drivers from the Linux source tree...
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      Linux Cache Aware Scheduling Extended For Even Better Performance: Up To 360% In MySQL

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Cache Aware Scheduling is one of the most exciting kernel innovations to land in Linux this year. While it was finally merged last week to Linux 7.2, a new patch series today is already working to extend Cache Aware Scheduling and is showing some exciting performance improvements...