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      Linux 7.3 Features Many Exciting Improvements, New Hardware Support & Faster Btrfs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:33

    With Linux 7.3-rc1 released to cap off the two week merge window, here is a look at the many exciting changes merged for the Linux 7.3 kernel that is working its way toward release in the second half of October.
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      Linux Kernel Patches Out For Review To Enable USB4/Thunderbolt For Apple M1 / M2 / M3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:55

    There is a set of 19 patches out for review on the Linux kernel mailing list that would finally allow the mainline kernel running on Apple Silicon M1 / M2 / M3 SoCs to enjoy USB4/Thunderbolt support...
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      Servo 0.5 Released: DuckDuckGo Properly Rendering, Up To 10x Faster Text Rendering

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:36

    Servo 0.5 is out today as the newest monthly update to this open-source, Rust-based browser engine. Servo 0.5 ships many notable enhancements for benefiting those running the Servoshell example browser or looking at Servo as an opportunity for embedded use...
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      New Linux Patches Tune AMD Ryzen Zen 6 To Optimize Performance & Power Consumption

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:23

    Ahead of the next-generation AMD Ryzen Zen 6 client processors debuting, an important patch series was posted overnight to the Linux kernel mailing list. These patches provide new Zen 6 client Energy Performance Preference "EPP" tunings that are important for optimizing performance and power consumption for these upcoming AMD Zen 6 desktop and laptop processors...
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      A Faster Merge Sort For Mesa 26.3 Vulkan Drivers To Benefit Ray-Tracing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:07

    One of the latest optimizations to the Mesa Vulkan drivers by Natalie Vock of Valve's Linux graphics team is faster and more vRAM efficient sorting for Morton code keys that are important for fast BVH construction and greater GPU parallelism...
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      NVIDIA VA-API Driver 0.0.18 Ships More Fixes, Chrome/Chromium Decode On Direct Backend

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:48

    Firefox has finally begun supporting Vulkan Video decoding to complement their long-used VA-API support on Linux. This is good news for the official NVIDIA Linux graphics driver stack as it's been the notable vendor not supporting the Video Acceleration API. But prior to Firefox rolling out its experimental Vulkan Video support, an independent implementation of VA-API built atop NVIDIA's NVDEC interface has been available for supporting GPU video acceleration in Firefox. That project is out today with its newest release...
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      Linux 7.3-rc1 Close To 41 Million Lines, AMD Kernel Graphics Driver At 6.5 Million Lines

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:23

    With Linus Torvalds remarking in the Linux 7.3-rc1 release announcement of the AMD kernel graphics driver changes for amounting around a third of the -rc1 changes due to the big AMD GPU register files for DCN 6.0 and other new IP additions, here are some fresh code stats at large...
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      Linux 7.3-rc1 With AMD Zen 6 Additions, Better Btrfs Performance & 2026 Steam Controller

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    Like clockwork, the Linux 7.3 merge window has concluded after two weeks and the Linux 7.3-rc1 kernel now available for testing...
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      OpenShot 4.0 Released In Adapting Video Editor UI To Qt6

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    OpenShot 4.0 was tagged this afternoon on GitHub as the newest major feature release to this open-source non-linear video editing application...