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      Linux Looking To Retire A Number Of Old ARM Platforms In Early 2027

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:18

    It's not only old x86 i486 CPU support being removed from the Linux kernel but a number of older ARM platforms and features are on the chopping block too. A proposal has been laid out for deprecating and then removing a number of outdated ARM platforms and features from the Linux kernel in early 2027...
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      FFmpeg Introduces Vulkan APV Encoder

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:04

    Back in May the FFmpeg project introduced Vulkan-accelerated decoding for the APV video format. The Advanced Professional Video (APV) codec was being handled using Vulkan shaders in a similar way to how FFmpeg implemented Vulkan acceleration for Apple ProRes. Now there is Vulkan-accelerated APV encoding too...
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      Rusticl OpenCL Driver Improving Hardware Utilization In Mesa 26.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:54

    Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst has landed his latest optimization work to Rusticl in Mesa 26.2. The latest effort for this Rust-based OpenCL driver that works across Gallium3D drivers is around better hardware utilization...
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      JPEG-XL libjxl 0.12 Brings More Performance Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:44

    A new release of libjxl is now available for this reference implementation of the JPEG-XL image format, including both image encode and decode support...
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      Box3D Debuts As New Open-Source 3D Physics Engine

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:35

    Erin Catto who has been developing the Box2D 2D physics engine for games announced the release of Box3D. Box3D is now providing a new open-source 3D physics engine that is forked off from the Box2D code...
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      Fedora Council Seeks To Shutdown Current Discussions Over AI Developer Desktop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1:40

    Stemming from the widely varying views over the recent Fedora proposal for an "AI Developer Desktop" catering to running local AI and machine learning workloads in pre-configured environments with a seamless hardware-accelerated experience, the Fedora Council issued a statement this evening to effectively shutdown discussions for now over a Fedora AI Developer Desktop and to pause the Fedora Community Initiatives process...
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      Steam On Linux Usage Receded A Bit In June

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:23

    Back in March Steam on Linux use shot up to 5.33% as a big 3.1% improvement over February. In April it dropped to 4.52% and then fell to 3.99% in May. Valve just published the Steam Survey numbers for June and it points to another minor setback from the recent all-time high of Steam on Linux...
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      KDE Linux Introduces "Developer Mode" Option, Easier Log Collection

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    With the start of the new month comes a new progress report on the KDE Linux distribution for the prior month. Even with KDE developers being busy to ship Plasma 6.7 in June, they still accomplished a lot when it comes to KDE Linux...
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      System76 Launches New Lemur Pro Laptop Powered By Intel Panther Lake

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 hours ago

    System76 today announced their new Lemur Pro high-end Linux laptop that is now powered by the Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" SoCs...