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      NVIDIA Posts vGPU Manager & VFIO Variant Driver For Open-Source Nova

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:02

    NVIDIA continues building out more functionality around the open-source, upstream Nova kernel graphics driver within the Linux kernel. Making it out to the mailing list this Saturday is a set of 13 patches for introducing a NVIDIA vGPU manager and VFIO variant driver...
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      Nouveau Lands Display Fixes For NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs As It Works Toward HDMI 2.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:20

    This week's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) fixes that were merged ahead of Sunday's Linux 7.3-rc2 release contain a number of fixes to the open-source Nouveau driver's display support for current-generation NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs...
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      Linux Patches Posted For Initial Enablement Of The Apple A18 Pro + MacBook Neo

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:11

    In addition to Linux developers focused on Apple Silicon being busy enabling functionality for the M3 and newer SoCs under the Linux kernel, there are also developers working on enabling the A18 Pro SoC used by the new, budget-friendly MacBook Neo laptop. Patches were posted this week for initial enablement of the A18 Pro and the MacBook Neo Device Tree... But even with these patches, the Linux support is still severely limited for now...
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      AMD Working To "Push Rust Deep Into The GPU Stack"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:48

    AMD is building out what they are describing as an "elite" team of developers for driving Rust code "deep into the GPU stack" from firmware to drivers, shader compilers, and other GPU software in Rust...
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      GNOME Stakeholders Discussing RFC Process For Solving Major Technical Changes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:31

    GNOME has been working to establish a formal request for comments (RFC) process for solving major technical questions and changes moving forward. A drafted RFC is now under discussion by GNOME stakeholders for moving this process forward...
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      KDE Plasma 6.8 Lands Windows-Like Auto-Scrolling, Lower vRAM Usage For Breeze Theme

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    It's been an exciting start to the month of September for KDE Plasma developers with continuing to land last minute improvements for Plasma 6.8 ahead of its official release in mid-October...
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      Wine 11.17 Released With Initial Support For Display Mode Emulation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    Wine 11.17 is out today as the newest bi-weekly feature development release for this software enabling Windows games and apps to run on Linux...
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      Amazon Linux 2027 Shows Off Nice Performance Gains On AMD EPYC In The AWS Cloud

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Yesterday AWS announced the public preview of Amazon Linux 2027 as their successor to the current Amazon Linux 2023 in-house distribution. With all the software upgrades and improvements like building packages now with link-time optimizations (LTO), enforcing x86-64-v3 builds, and other changes, I was eager to run some performance benchmarks of Amazon Linux 2023 vs. Amazon Linux 2027 in the EC2 cloud.
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      NetworkManager Works To Enforce AI Policy By Tricking AI Agents To Add A Canary

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Last month the NetworkManager project adopted an AI coding policy where authors are responsible for 100% of the code they submit and must be able to explain it all. In an attempt to catch AI coding agents that may be trying to bypass their policy, they have added an interesting canary to the project to try to catch such AI-generated patches so they can then be automatically dealt with...