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      Steam Beta Now Defaults Non-Steam Windows Binaries To Using Proton

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1:09

    Valve released tonight a new Steam client beta that includes some notable improvements for Linux users...
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      Microsoft Issues First Release Of Their LiteBox Sandboxing Library OS

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:43

    Back in February we featured LiteBox as a new Microsoft open-source project building out a Rust-based sandboxing Library OS. LiteBox leverages Linux virtualization security features and Rust language inherent benefits to provide the ability for sandboxing Linux apps on Linux, Linux programs on Windows, and other security-oriented deployments. Out today is the first tagged release of LiteBox for this open-source library operating system...
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      AI Makes "Open-Source, Clean Room" Implementations Of Adobe Photoshop & Premier In Rust

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:12

    As an interesting demonstrator for the power of AI and potentially pressing legal challenges, Claude Code and AI agents have created "open-source, clean-room reimplementation" versions of Adobe Photoshop, Adobe Premier, and Adobe Lightroom. These new creations from the ArtCraft project are implemented in the Rust programming language...
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      FEX 2610 Released With Handling For AVX-VNNI, Disk Cache Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 hours ago

    FEX 2610 released today as the newest monthly release of this open-source emulator for running x86_64 games/apps on AArch64 for ARM64 Linux systems, including most notably by Valve's Steam Frame headset...
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      Star Labs StarFighter Ultra: A Modern High-End Linux Laptop With Coreboot

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    When it comes to Linux pre-loaded laptops, I have looked at hardware from most of these vendors over the past 22+ years of Phoronix. One vendor I haven't had the chance to personally test until now is the UK-based Star Labs. That changed recently and over the past few weeks I have been testing out their new StarFighter laptop that offers great Linux support and comes pre-loaded with Coreboot and streamlined firmware updates via LVFS. For those after a high-end mobile workstation, the Star Labs StarFighter offers a lot of performance potential while being open-source friendly and with Coreboot in tow.
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      NVIDIA 615.78.08 Linux Driver Adds VK_NV_low_latency2 r3 For Improved VKD3D-Proton

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    NVIDIA today released their 615.78.08 Linux driver build with a useful improvement for gamers using Steam Play (Proton) with Direct3D 12 games via VKD3D-Proton along with a variety of other fixes...
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      Kage: Google Experimenting With Linux Driver Isolation Using In-Kernel LFI Sandboxes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 18 hours ago

    Google engineers are experimenting with Linux kernel device driver isolation using in-kernel sandboxes leveraging LLVM's Lightweight Fault Isolation (LFI) functionality...
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      Qualcomm Posts QPaCE Linux Driver Code For Faster ZRAM On Newest SoCs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    Qualcomm's Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 6 "Hawi" SoC features the Qualcomm Page Compression Engine "QPaCE" hardware accelerator. Linux patches posted recently provide a QPaCE driver for accelerating page compression and decompression for the ZRAM block device...
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      XMFS: Experimental File-System Being Worked On By Huawei For Modern Linux Servers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 hours ago

    Huawei engineers are experimenting with a new file-system called XMFS. XMFS was presented this week at LPC 2026 in Czechia as a file-system for modern Linux servers with CXL 3.0 or Huawei United Bus connectivity...