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      Ubuntu 26.10 Switches To The Linux 7.3 Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:50

    As a very pleasant surprise, the upcoming Ubuntu 26.10 release will now be powered by the Linux 7.3 kernel rather than their original plans and switch over to the Linux 7.2 kernel...
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      Wine 11.18 Continues Building Out Its NTOSKRNL Implementation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 hours ago

    Wine 11.18 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and apps on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...
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      Steam Frame Making Use Of Zink For OpenGL On Vulkan

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 hours ago

    Valve's Steam Frame VR headset that makes use of a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC with Adreno graphics is using the open-source "Turnip" Vulkan driver from Mesa as reported last year. For OpenGL it turns out that the Mesa Zink driver is being used on the Steam Frame for OpenGL atop the Vulkan API...
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      Google's "Painful To Maintain" Binder C Linux Driver Being Removed In Favor Of Rust

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 hours ago

    Google's Binder driver written in the C programming language has long been part of the mainline kernel as the inter-process communication (IPC) mechanism used on Android. The past few years the Binder driver was rewritten in Rust as one of the first "real" drivers in the Rust programming language. The Rust Binder driver was upstreamed in Linux 6.18 and now for the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel cycle, the old Binder C-based driver is set to be retired...
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      Apple Video Decode Driver Posted For Upstream Linux Kernel Review

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    The latest Apple Silicon enablement code working its way from the Asahi Linux project toward the upstream Linux kernel is the AVD driver used for accelerated video playback across Apple M1 / M2 / M3 SoCs...
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      AMD Strix Halo Enjoys Some Performance Gains On Ubuntu 26.10, Especially With amd64v3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    Ahead of next week's Ubuntu 26.10 beta release I have been testing the "Stonking Stingray" on a variety of systems. Ubuntu 26.10 is performing well overall with some nice upgrades over Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, especially if opting to use the new snapshot/daily ISOs of Ubuntu 26.10 in amd64v3 form for x86_64-v3 packages. In today's tests are a look at the performance benefits of Ubuntu 26.10 on an AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo".
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      Linux Ready With Fix For Intel's FRED Crashing Some Games Under Wine / Steam Play

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    Recently there have been some bug reports to Mesa around Intel Panther Lake graphics crashing with some games like Red Dead Redemption 2 and Elden Ring crashing or freezing quite quickly. This turns out not to be an Intel Xe3 Arc Graphics B390 driver bug with Panther Lake but rather due to a kernel issue with the new Flexible and Return Event Delivery "FRED" that debuted with the Core Ultra Series 3 processors...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 Desktop Adjusting Its Behavior Under Memory Pressure

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    The Ubuntu 26.10 desktop is adjusting its default out-of-memory (OOM) daemon behavior when dealing with memory pressure on the system...
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      Help Linux Hardware Testing & Reviews Continue While Enjoying Phoronix Without Ads

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    If you missed out on the Phoronix Premium special back during the 22nd birthday of Phoronix.com in June, there is another promotion now active for helping to support the site and allow for continued daily original content and relentless Linux performance benchmarking and other open-sourced focused hardware testing...