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Common Desktop Environment "CDE" 2.5.3 Released After Two Years

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 01:43

Two years and one week since the prior point release, Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 is now available as the latest iteration of this Unix desktop environment built around the Motif toolkit. CDE has been open-source for more than a decade now but its development not exactly brisk. But for those resisting the likes of Wayland and other modern display tech -- especially with KDE announcing today Plasma 6.8 will be Wayland-exclusive -- CDE 2.5.3 is now available...

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Vulkan's VK_EXT_present_timing Merged After Five Years In The Making

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 01:24

Originally opened in September 2020 by NVIDIA Linux engineer James Jones, tonight the Vulkan VK_EXT_present_timing extension was finally merged! Five years in the making and incorporating contributions from Google, NVIDIA, AMD, Collabora, Samsung, Unity, and Red Hat is this prominent new addition to the Vulkan API...

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Radeon Software for Linux 25.20.3 Released - "Exclusively Open-Source" With RADV

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 20:16

With the great upstream support for AMD Radeon graphics in the Linux kernel and Mesa, most desktop users / gamers / enthusiasts are best off just using the latest code shipped by their distributions or via the enthusiast-supported third-party archives/repositories. But for those on older enterprise Linux distributions, Radeon Software for Linux 25.20.3 was recently released for shipping that packaged AMD Linux graphics driver stack. This 25.20 series is the big one where they are now officially supporting the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver in place of their own former Vulkan Linux driver...

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AMD ROCm 7.1.1 Released With RHEL 10.1 Support, More Models Working On RDNA4

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 18:47

Following the release of ROCm 7.1 from just under one month ago, ROCm 7.1.1 is now available with expanded Linux operating system support, continued Instinct MI350 series work, more large language models working on RDNA4 GPUs, and other enhancements...

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Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" Linux Performance Up ~9% One Year Later At ~85% Power Use

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 15:45

It's been just over one year now since the launch of the Core Ultra 9 285K and other Arrow Lake desktop processors. For those that may be considering an Arrow Lake CPU this holiday season for a Linux desktop or just curious how the power and performance has evolved one year later, here are some leading-edge benchmarks of the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K compared to the launch-day performance last October.

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KDE Plasma 6.8 Will Go Wayland-Exclusive In Dropping X11 Session Support

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 15:34

KDE developers announced they are going "all-in on a Wayland future" and with the Plasma 6.8 desktop it will become Wayland-exclusive. The Plasma X11 session is going away...

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Fedora SIG Proposed To Improve Production Stability

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 14:24

A Fedora special interest group is being proposed to help improve production stability of Fedora Linux and better handling incident management when problems do arise...

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Urgent ACPI Revert For Linux 6.18 To Deal With Some Hardware Crashing

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 13:31

The Linux 6.18 kernel is anticipated for release this coming Sunday while this week a last-minute crisis was averted following reports of a kernel crash from recent ACPI code changes...

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NVIDIA Is Interested In Helping Bring Vulkan Video To Chrome

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • Yesterday - 11:34

NVIDIA engineers are interested in helping Google bring Vulkan Video accelerated GPU video decoding to the Chrome/Chromium web browser...