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      KDE Plasma 6.7 To Provide A Much Better Experience For CPU-Based Rendering

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:29

    KDE developer Xaver Hugl has whipped up another nice improvement for the upcoming Plasma 6.7 desktop release. Due to QtWidgets still relying on CPU-based rendering and finding the performance subpar with Wayland shared memory "wl_shm" usage, Xaver has leveraged UDMABUF for avoiding excess buffer copies to provide a much more fluid experience when dealing with CPU-based rendering / shared memory usage on KDE under Wayland...
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      New GCC Back-End Proposed For WebAssembly

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:17

    When it comes to compiling C/C++ code to WebAssembly (WASM), LLVM/Clang and other LLVM-based tooling has dominated the space. Nearly a decade ago was a proposal for a GCC WebAssembly back-end that ultimately never ended up being merged while now there is a new proposal for a WebAssembly back-end for the GNU toolchain...
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      SR-IOV Support Appears To Be Coming For Next-Gen Ryzen AI NPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:06

    AMD recently upstreamed Linux support for their next-gen AIE4 NPU. That next-gen AMD NPU support is expected to premiere in Linux 7.2 while this week an interesting new patch series has surfaced for SR-IOV support with those upcoming neural processing units...
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      Rust-Written Redox OS Sees Improvements For Running On Real Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:22

    Redox OS is out with its status report for April 2026. During the past month this open-source, Rust-based operating system written from scratch has seen improvements for running on real hardware as well as a wide variety of other improvements for bettering this original OS project...
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      D7VK 1.9 Brings Some Hefty Performance Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 hours ago

    D7VK continues advancing for this Vulkan-based implementation of Direct3D 7 that also supports D3D 6 / 5 / 3 APIs too for vintage games ultimately rendered using the modern Vulkan API...
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      Mesa 26.1 Released With Many Improvements For Open-Source Vulkan Drivers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    Eric Engestrom just announced another timely feature release of the Mesa drivers. Mesa 26.1 is out today for this collection of predominantly OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for a variety of hardware as well as the likes of Rusticl for OpenCL, Zink for OpenGL-on-Vulkan, various Windows acceleration components, and more...
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      PCIe 8.0 Spec Draft 0.5 Released For 1TB/s Bi-Directional x16 Bandwidth

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    The PCI-SIG today held a briefing around PCIe 8.0 that follows the PCIe 7.0 specification that was released to members last June...
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      Linux 7.2 To Integrate The AMDGPU "Power Module" To Better Align With Windows

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    Sent out today was a batch of "new stuff" for the AMDGPU graphics and AMDKFD compute kernel drivers that are ready for DRM-Next to queue until the Linux 7.2 merge window happens in June. Most notable is the introduction of the AMDGPU DC power module to better align with the Radeon power management behavior under Microsoft Windows...
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      Nouveau vs. NVIDIA R595 Linux Driver For Workstation Graphics Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    When having the HP Z6 G5 A workstation in the lab for benchmarking, one of the curiosity-driven tests was seeing how well the latest open-source and upstream Nouveau driver stack is competing against the latest official NVIDIA R595 driver for workstations. The official NVIDIA Linux driver stack remains the best positioned software solution for RTX (PRO) hardware but Nouveau continues evolving while awaiting the Nova kernel driver to reach the limelight.