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      New Lenovo Legion Go Drivers & More Sony HID Device Support In Linux 7.1

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    The HID subsystem updates landed this week for the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel that includes new hardware support and other changes...
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      GIMP 3.2.4 Released With A Fix For Its XCF Code That Has Existed Since 1999

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 hours ago

    Following last month's GIMP 3.2 feature release that was followed by the GIMP 3.2.2 point release at the end of March, out now is GIMP 3.2.4 to ship more fixes to users of this open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshop and other imaging applications...
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      New Debian Project Leader Elected For 2026

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 4 hours ago

    Sruthi Chandran has been elected the new Debian Project Leader "DPL" after running unopposed in this year's elections...
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      GNOME Fixes Screencasting Issue With H.264 Recordings Being ~18x Larger Than VP8

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 hours ago

    A fix today for GNOME Shell's screen casting/recording service was merged after it was reported that H.264 recordings using the Video Acceleration API (VA-API) are around 18x larger than they should be like when using the VP8 software fallback...
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      Linux 7.1 Adds Some New PCIe Drivers While Nuking Some PCI Drivers

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 hours ago

    The PCI subsystem updates were merged this week for the Linux 7.1 kernel with a wide assortment of PCI(e) changes from new to old hardware...
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      New NTFS File-System Driver Submitted For Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 days ago

    Making today very exciting in Linux 7.1 merge window land was a pull request being sent out for introducing the new, modern NTFS file-system driver. Linus Torvalds has yet to comment if he's going to merge the new driver but it looks like it's ready for providing a better Linux NTFS experience over the current NTFS3 driver that was upstreamed by Paragon Software a few years ago and hasn't seen too much feature progress...
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      Proton 11.0 Beta Released With More Games Playable On Steam Play

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 days ago

    Valve and CodeWeavers have just released Proton 11.0 Beta as their first beta milestone for this software that powers Steam Play now rebased against upstream Wine 11.0...
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      Linux 7.1 sched_ext Brings cgroup Sub-Scheduler Groundwork, Idle SMT Sibling Change

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 days ago

    The extensible scheduler "sched_ext" code for allowing Linux scheduling behavior to be defined via BPF programs is seeing some useful improvements with the in-development Linux 7.1 kernel...
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      Mir 2.26 Begins Working On Rust-Based Input Platform

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 days ago

    Canonical today released Mir 2.26 as the newest feature release for this compositor for building Wayland-based shells. Notable with Mir 2.26 is a Rust-based input platform is in development as part of their broader effort for bringing Rust code into Mir...