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      Xfce Ported To Rust-Written Redox OS For Better X11 Experience

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15:09

    The belated "This Month in Redox" was posted today for covering improvements made to this open-source, Rust-based operating system during the month of May. Most notable in May is seeing the Xfce desktop ported over to Redox OS...
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      Canonical Experimenting With x86-64-v3 Packages For Ubuntu 26.10

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:35

    Canonical engineers are again evaluating the impact of building the Ubuntu Linux archive for the x86-64-v3 "amd64v3" micro-architecture feature level for its performance benefits on modern Intel and AMD systems. An amd64v3 archive is available of Ubuntu 26.10 for testing with the packages targeting this level that allows for AVX/AVX2 and other newer CPU x86_64 ISA capabilities of the past decade...
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      Linux 7.2 To Add ACPI CPPC v4 Support Authored By NVIDIA

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:41

    Ahead of NVIDIA Vera ramping up, the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is adding the ACPI CPPC v4 support authored by a NVIDIA engineer...
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      Flatpak 1.18 Released With Integration For AMD ROCm

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:14

    Flatpak 1.18 is out today for providing the latest improvements to this leading open-source app sandboxing and distribution tech...
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      Linux EFS File-System May Have New Maintainer - Or It Might Just Get Removed

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11:00

    An interesting quandary has arose on the Linux kernel mailing list over maintainership of old, unmaintained code within the Linux kernel. Someone has stepped up to maintain an old, very rare file-system driver but admittedly doesn't even use it and just submitted basic fixes. Or is it just better removing that old code?..
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      Vintage AMD R600 Graphics Driver Sees Code Cleanups Thanks To GitHub Copilot

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:41

    As the discussions continue among developers over potentially branching off some of the older Mesa drivers, the AMD R600 Gallium3D driver saw 59 commits on Sunday to Mesa 26.2. Making this code restructuring and code cleaning all the more notable is that the improvements to this old AMD Radeon graphics driver was done in part by GitHub Copilot...
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      Last Call For The Phoronix 22nd Birthday Premium Special

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:33

    As a friendly reminder, if you wanted to join Phoronix Premium at a discounted rate to show your support for the 22nd birthday of Phoronix.com during these difficult times in the web publishing space, that special is ending later today...
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      BeagleV Ahead & Lichee Pi 4a RISC-V Boards To See Working WiFi With Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:24

    In addition to the SpacemiT K1 and K3 RISC-V SoC Device Tree updates sent out last week, the RISC-V T-HEAD Device Tree "DT" changes were also sent out last week ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel merge window...
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      Linux 7.1-rc7 Released: Stable Hopefully Next Sunday

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:26

    Last week Linux 7.1-rc6 was larger than Linus Torvalds wished for and for Linux 7.1-rc7 it has come in still heavier than typically seen this late in the cycle, but is shrinking and making Linus comfortable in hopefully releasing Linux 7.1 stable next Sunday...