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      GTK 4.24 Released With Better Fractional Scaling, More Precise GDK Frame-Clock

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:52

    GTK 4.24 released on Friday as the newest stable feature release to the GTK4 toolkit. It's quite a nice update to GTK4 for pairing with next week's GNOME 51 desktop release...
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      Intel Linux NPU Driver Only Now Officially Supports Ubuntu 26.04 LTS

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:34

    Releasing on Friday was the Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.38 as the user-space open-source driver components for leveraging the Core Ultra Neural Processing Unit (NPU) under Linux in conjunction with the upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver...
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      Ubuntu Developers Contemplate Linux Firmware HWE Package

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:25

    A possible future enhancement being considered for Ubuntu Long Term Support "LTS" releases is the introduction of a linux-firmware-hwe package as part of their hardware enablement (HWE) stack...
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      KDE Plasma 6.8 Remote Desktop To Enjoy Lower Latency Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:07

    Along with KDE Plasma 6.8 beta releasing this week, there were some other interesting Plasma changes this week worthy of a shout-out...
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      Gitte As Git Client For GNOME Continues Maturing Quite Nicely

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:35

    For those in pursuit of a graphical Git client for GNOME or the Linux desktop at large, the GTK4-powered Gitte continues advancing rather well and out this week is its v0.10 release...
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      New Cache Aware Scheduling Fixes Out For Testing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    Since being merged back during the Linux 7.2 cycle, the Cache Aware Scheduling code continues seeing more fixes as users test out this scheduling enhancement on different processors and system configurations...
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      Linux's IO_uring Sees Some "Crazy" Patches That Deliver Very Nice Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 19 hours ago

    Linux block subsystem maintainer and IO_uring lead developer Jens Axboe continues to uncover new opportunities for making the wonderful IO_uring framework even more performant within the Linux kernel. For ending out the week he's posted some "crazy" patches delivering some significant gains...
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      BeOS-Inspired Haiku Now Supports Changing Audio Outputs Live, Other Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    In addition to August bringing the long-awaited Haiku R1 Beta 6 release, there was also a lot of development progress on this BeOS-inspired operating system too during the course of the past month...
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      GIMP 3.2.6 Released With Some Early Preparations Toward Eventual GTK4 Port

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    The long-awaited GIMP 3.0 release for transitioning from GTK2 to GTK3 only saw its stable release last year. But with GTK4 already being out for years, GIMP developers have begun making some very early preparations toward an inevitable GTK4 port...