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      Steam Client Beta Improves Big Picture Mode, Several Linux Enhancements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:27

    Tonight Valve released a big Steam client beta update with a number of new features and fixes...
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      ReactOS Dev Gets FEX Running For x86_64 Games On This "Open-Source Windows" OS Under ARM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 hours ago

    A ReactOS developer for this open-source operating system project striving for binary compatibility with Windows drivers and applications has achieved an intriguing software stack. With the experimental ReactOS ARM64 build for running on 64-bit ARM hardware like Raspberry Pi SBCs, he's paired that "open-source Windows" OS with the open-source FEX emulator for in turn being able to run Windows x64 games/apps on ReactOS atop native ARM hardware...
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      Running AMD openSIL + Coreboot On The First Available Ryzen AM5 Motherboard

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 hours ago

    Earlier this year the 3mdeb firmware consulting firm ported AMD openSIL CPU open-source silicon initialization library and Coreboot to an EPYC motherboard, the Gigabyte MZ33-AR1. Their next feat now achieved is bringing AMD openSIL and Coreboot to a desktop AMD Ryzen motherboard with their downstream Dasharo firmware solution. I have been running this alternative firmware on the MSI PRO B850P WiFi motherboard and it's been working out and performing well as an alternative to the closed-up motherboard firmware.
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      XWayland 26.1 RC2 Released For Testing With More Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 hours ago

    Following last month's initial release candidate of XWayland 26.1 with its many new features, a second release candidate is now available with a number of fixes...
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      System76 Launches The Thelio Mira AI With AMD Ryzen + NVIDIA Or AMD Graphics

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    System76 today unveiled their newest desktop computer as the Thelio Mira AI. The System76 Thelio Mira AI is designed for multi-GPU AI training, model fine-tuning, AI inferencing, computer vision and image generation tasks on tthe AI side. Or with its AMD Ryzen 9000 series CPU and NVIDIA/AMD GPU options is also a good candidate for simulations and other HPC-type workloads...
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      OpenSSL 4.1 Alpha 1 Released With DTLS 1.3, GREASE & More AVX-512 Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    The first alpha release of the upcoming OpenSSL 4.1 release is now available for testing with some GREASE and DTLS 1.3 support along with more AVX-512 performance optimizations...
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      NVIDIA 615.71.09 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    NVIDIA today debuted the 615.71.09 Linux driver that comes with a number of improvements, especially from the Vulkan API perspective...
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      A Nice Improvement Coming For Faster Btrfs Zstd Decompression

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    In addition to the still-pending kernel work for improving the in-kernel Zstd code, sepaarately the Btrfs file-system driver has an improvement on the way in its decompression code path for the Zstd transparent file-system compression...
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      AMD Posts New GCC Compiler Patch For Extended Load Optimization

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    It's nice seeing a new GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) patch out of AMD today that is a general optimization for the x86_64 compiler code and not exclusively tied to their Zen processors. It's an Extended Load Optimization to benefit code where there is a narrower type and then an arithmetic type with a wider type...