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      Firefox 149 vs. Chrome 147 Web Browser Performance On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:20

    It has been a while since featuring a showdown of the Mozilla Firefox and Google Chrome web browsers on Linux. With some fresh benchmarks being overdue plus the new JetStream 3 browser benchmark having been announced last week, here is some fresh data for how these two dominant web browsers are competing on the modern Linux desktop from an Intel Panther Lake system running Ubuntu 26.04.
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      Linux 2026 "Spring Cleaning" To Address Some Code Remnants As Far Back As Linux v0.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:28

    A big kernel patch series was posted today by longtime Linux developer Thomas Gleixner. The set of 38 patches amount to some big time "spring cleaning" with addressing some code remnants still around that originated back in the very early Linux v0.1 kernel while some other code being cleaned up dates back to the Linux 1.3~2.1 kernel series from the 90's...
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      Bitland WMI Laptop Driver Slated For Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:02

    Bitland, the Chinese OEM that manufactured systems for Lenovo and other companies until being added to the US Entity List due to being accused of using Uyghur forced labor, is expected to see a WMI driver added to the Linux 7.1 kernel for better supporting Bitland laptops...
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      Vulkan 1.4.349 Released With Data Graph Optical Flow Extension

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:23

    Vulkan 1.4.349 is out today as a small update to the Vulkan API specification that incorporates various fixes that accumulated over the past week. Plus there is one new extension...
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      Framework Computer To Announce Their Next-Gen Hardware Later This Month

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:28

    Linux-friendly hardware vendor Framework Computer sent out a notice this morning that they will be announcing their new 2026 hardware products later this month...
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      TUXEDO Laptops Will Enjoy More Features With The Upstream Linux 7.1 Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:10

    TUXEDO Computers' laptops received some heat in the past from upstream Linux kernel developers over their out-of-tree kernel drivers but fortunately that situation has been improving. The Uniwill driver premiered in the Linux 6.19 kernel with that OEM manufacturing many of the TUXEDO Computers laptop models. That Uniwill x86 platform driver enabled more functionality for TUXEDO hardware in the mainline kernel and has continued improving since its upstreaming. More features are on the way for Linux 7.1...
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      FEX 2604 Released With Better Memory Savings For Running x86_64 Apps/Games On ARM64

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:19

    Out today is the newest monthly update to FEX for this emulator for running Linux x86/x86_64 binaries on AArch64 (ARM64) Linux systems, including games and the likes of Steam Play with Windows games. This Valve-sponsored project that is quite important for the upcoming Steam Frame has rolled out more performance improvements, memory savings, and other improvements with FEX 2604...
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      Intel NPU Linux Driver To Allow Limiting Frequency For Power & Thermal Management

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    The Intel IVPU accelerator driver used on Linux for the neural processing unit (NPU) on Core Ultra SoCs saw a patch posted for allowing the NPU clock frequency to be limited in the name of power and thermal management...
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      ASUS Armoury Driver Supports A Few More Laptops With Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 hours ago

    Merged back in Linux 6.19 was the ASUS Armoury driver to enhance support for the ROG Ally gaming handhelds and modern ASUS laptops. The ASUS Armoury driver enables various laptop features to be toggled under Linux and since its introduction it has continued expanding support for more ASUS devices. Ahead of Linux 7.0 coming out on Sunday, a few more devices are now supported by this upstream driver...