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      Linux 7.3 To Fix Longstanding Gap In The Native Driver For Original Steam Controller

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:44

    For those with one of the original Valve Steam Controllers from a decade ago and looking to make use of it with the native HID Linux driver outside of the Steam client or SDL, an important addition is coming with the Linux 7.3 kernel release later in the year...
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      Rust Coreutils 0.10 Released With More Security Hardening, Increased GNU Compatibility

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 hours ago

    Rust Coreutils 0.10 is out today from the uutils project for this alternative to GNU Coreutils. Rust Coreutils 0.10 development focused on additional security hardening plus also increasing the GNU test suite compatibility and robustness...
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      Mesa 26.2 Released With NVK Mesh Shader Support, Many Other Vulkan Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 hours ago

    Mesa 26.2 stable is now available as the newest quarterly feature release for this set of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers typically used on Linux systems...
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      USB4STREAM Adding Busy Poll Option For Lower Latency At The Cost Of Increased CPU Cycles

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 hours ago

    One of the nifty new features of Linux 7.2 is USB4STREAM as an Intel-developed solution for quickly sending data between USB4 connected systems. Now for the upcoming Linux 7.3 cycle, a busy poll mode is being added to provide lower-latency data transfers at the expense of increased CPU activity...
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      Denial WM: New Wayland Compositor With Flutter Directly Embedded

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    The newest Wayland compositor to talk about and discuss is Denial, a Wayland compositor focused on optimal Arch Linux integration and that embeds the Flutter engine directly into the codebase. Denial makes use of the Rust programming language and leverages Smithay to help in the compositor responsibilities...
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      Cloudflare Announces Open-Source Cloudflare OS As AI "Operating System"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    Cloudflare today announced the open-sourcing of Cloudflare OS as an "open platform for agents, apps, and work." Cloudflare OS is an AI "operating system" but not in the traditional OS sense...
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      Linux To Avoid Confusing Processor Firmware With Newer Intel CPUs Sporting DEC

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    A patch for the Intel P-State CPU frequency scaling Linux driver is pending to avoid confusing the processor firmware on newer platforms like Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" where Dynamic Efficiency Control (DEC) is supported...
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      Additional Old Linux Drivers Face Removal Due To Noise From AI/LLM Coding Agents

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    There continues to be a lout of cleaning up of the kernel source tree to deal with noise generated by AI / LLM coding agents sending in reports and patches for old drivers that are likely not actively used by anyone on modern upstream kernel builds. Rather than continuing to carry these old drivers around with the uptick in AI/LLM-generated noise, kernel maintainers are finding it better to just retire the old drivers...
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      AMD Preps HDMI FRL Fixes, New Knob For Disabling Older AMD GPU DCE Display Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    Overnight AMD engineers sent out their latest round of AMDGPU DC display code updates for their Linux driver. This week's round of display code updates include some additional fixes for their recently introduced HDMI FRL (Fixed Rate Link) support as part of the work toward their HDMI 2.1 implementation finally coming together for their open-source, upstream Linux driver...