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      Mesa 26.2 Merges Vulkan Present Timing Support For X11/XWayland

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:49

    Mesa's Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) code now has support for present timing support "VK_EXT_present_timing" with X11 and XWayland...
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      Google's Gemini Partially Figures Out A Lengthy Linux Boot Time On Modern ASUS Laptop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:43

    Google Antigravity with the Gemini 3.5 Flash model helped a Linux user sort out a situation where his laptop was taking around 36 seconds to boot the kernel, which shouldn't be the case for the high-end laptop with AMD Ryzen 9 processor and 32GB of RAM. It ended up being yet another case of device firmware issues, but now a Linux kernel patch is pending for working around the issue on the ASUS ROG Strix G16 G614 laptop while discussions are ongoing in getting the vendor to provide a proper firmware fix...
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      Linux 7.2 Begins Making Preparations For NVIDIA "Blackwell-Next"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:55

    When going through the VFIO subsystem patches for the ongoing Linux 7.2 merge window, there isn't too much to get excited about for end users with these changes. But there is the first time mentioning "Blackwell-Next" enablement by NVIDIA for the Linux kernel...
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      Broadcom Working On VMware Zero-Copy Buffer Sharing Between VMs And Hypervisor

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:34

    Interesting feature work for VMware virtualization on Linux now being pursued by Broadcom is to support zero-copy buffer sharing between the VM(s) and host hypervisor, which would equate to an efficiency and performance win...
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      Linux Finally Eliminates The strncpy API After Six Years Of Work, 360+ Patches

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 hours ago

    Linux 7.2 has finally eliminated the strncpy API from the Linux kernel. The strncpy() function for copying up to a specified number of bytes has long been deprecated and after six years of work and hundreds of patches, no more users of the strncpy within the Linux kernel remained that it has now been eliminated...
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      Linux's ARM64 NEON Intrinsics CRC64 Code Adapted To Work On 32-bit ARM

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Merged for Linux 7.1 was ARMM64 NEON-accelerated CRC64-NVMe support for around 6x the performance out of that checksumming algorithm. The generic code had been a bottleneck in NVMe and other storage subsystem code of the Linux kernel with CRC64-NVMe being used to help verify against data corruption. Now for Linux 7.2, the NEON-accelerated code will also work for those still relying on 32-bit ARM...
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      GIMP v0.54 From 1996 With Motif Toolkit Now Flatpak'ed For Modern Linux Desktops

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    The open-source world waited long enough for the GIMP 3.0 release that finally came last year with its GTK3 port and more, but for those with time on their hands this weekend and want to relive GIMP's past from long ago, GIMP 0.54 has been adapted for Flatpak to work on modern Linux desktops. What makes this version of GIMP from 1996 notable is that it was the last to use the Motif toolkit...
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      exFAT File-System Enjoys Better Performance On Linux 7.2 With IOmap Conversion

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    In addition to open-source developer Namjae Jeon serving as maintainer for the new NTFS Linux driver, he also continues serving as maintainer to the exFAT file-system for that other Microsoft file-system popular with removable storage media...
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      KDE Plasma 6.8 Making It Easier To Configure Multi-Monitor Setups

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    With KDE's Plasma 6.7 desktop having released this week, more development attention is turning to feature work toward Plasma 6.8 but there are also some fixes already accumulating for the Plasma 6.7.1 point release...