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      AlmaLinux To Unveil Media/Entertainment Linux OS Edition

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:31

    AlmaLinux shared with us that they will be introducing a new version of their RHEL-derived Linux operating system that is built specifically for media and entertainment use-cases...
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      More AMDGPU Driver Fixes Prepped For Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:23

    AMD is ready with more AMDKFD compute driver and AMDGPU kernel graphics driver changes for the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window...
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      chipStar 1.3 Released For Running HIP/CUDA Code On SPIR-V With OpenCL

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:16

    A new release of chipStar is now available as the open-source tool for compiling and running HIP/CUDA code in a vendor-neutral manner with the SPIR-V intermediate representation on OpenCL or even Intel Level Zero as the run-time alternative. This is part of the ambitious effort to allow NVIDIA CUDA and AMD HIP code to ultimately run on alternative vendors with increasing levels of success...
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      New Patches Allow The Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G To Be More Useful Under Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:01

    Back in 2024 there were Linux patches to enable a partially-working Microsoft Surface Pro 9 5G laptop that is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8xc Gen 3 (SC8280XP) SoC. Now in 2026, there are new patches for making that ARM-powered Microsoft Surface laptop actually working more respectably under Linux... Like a working display and more...
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      AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL To Be Initially Disabled-By-Default

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    One of the most exciting developments in recent times for the open-source AMDGPU kernel graphics driver is HDMI 2.1 FRL support for the AMDGPU driver along with Display Stream Compression support as they work toward providing full HDMI 2.1 support for this open-source AMD Radeon driver. The details how AMD managed to pull this feat off given prior resistance from the HDMI Forum remains to be confirmed, but it's moving ahead and out today is the latest iteration of the HDMI 2.1 FRL+DSC patches...
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      The Very Exciting Cache Aware Scheduling Looks Like It Will Land For Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    As a very exciting development ahead of the Linux 7.2 kernel merge window opening in about one month's time, it looks like the long-awaited Cache Aware Scheduling support will finally be merged! CONFIG_SCHED_CACHE has made it into a TIP branch with all the Cache Aware Scheduling code for helping with Linux performance on modern CPUs sporting multiple last level caches...
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      Firefox 153 Nightly Rolls Out New Settings UI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    The latest nightly builds of Firefox 153 have rolled out a new appearance for the browser's settings area...
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      Initial Benchmarks Of The SpacemiT K3 RVA23 RISC-V CPU With The K3 Pico-ITX

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    One of the RISC-V SoCs we have been most looking forward to this year is the SpacemiT K3 that features the X100 RISC-V cores that are RVA23 compliant and among the first readily available RVA23 RISC-V platform for running on the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS. In this article is a preview of some very early benchmarks of the SpacemiT K3 with the new Pico-ITX single board computer offering.
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      Patches Trying To Bring Mainline Linux Support For The Infineon/Intel XMM6260 Modem

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    While it has been nearly seven years since Apple acquired the Intel Mobile Communications' smartphone modem business and fifteen years since Intel acquired the wireless solutions division of Infineon, in 2026 we might see mainline Linux kernel support for the out-of-date XMM6260 modem...