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      Epic Games Announces Lore Open-Source Version Control System

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:45

    Epic Games announced today they have created a new version control system that is now open-source as Lore. Given the proliferation and excellence of Git, you may be wondering why Epic Games is pursuing another VCS option... They are specifically catering Lore to games and entertainment purposes with large file sizes...
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      Intel Core Ultra X7 Panther Lake Performance On Linux 7.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14:30

    After recently noting the Intel Arc B580 Battlemage performance improving with Linux 7.1 and similarly finding performance gains for the Arc Pro B70 on Linux 7.1, several Phoronix readers have been wondering whether the newer Xe3 graphics with Panther Lake similarly benefit. Here are some CPU and iGPU benchmarks of the Core Ultra X7 358H "Panther Lake" SoC between Linux 7.0 and the recently stabilized Linux 7.1 kernel.
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      Myna Announced As Speech-To-Text Solution For The Ubuntu Desktop

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13:34

    Earlier this month plans were shared publicly of Ubuntu 26.10 aiming to build a context-aware desktop with local AI features and one of the first capabilities to be integrated speech-to-text support. Now we have more details on the speech-to-text plans with Canonical announcing the Myna project...
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      Initial AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL Support Successfully Merged For Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12:21

    The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display and accelerator driver changes have been merged for Linux 7.2. The Linux 7.2 DRM merge is headlined by the long-awaited HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link (FRL) support for the AMDGPU open-source driver as part of the larger effort of finally proceeding with a full HDMI 2.1 implementation for this AMD Radeon Linux driver...
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      Qt Creator 20 IDE Released With AI Agent Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:31

    The Qt Creator integrated development environment focused on Qt/C++ programming is out today with Qt Creator 20 and this new version is headlined by adding AI agent support...
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      GCC 17 Lands Initial Infrastructure For C++29

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:23

    Merged yesterday to the GCC Git development codebase for next year's GCC 17 release is the initial infrastructure laying out support for -std=c++29 and the like for targeting the C++29 standard not anticipated for release until around 2029...
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      FreeBSD Updates Its Graphics Driver Port From Linux 6.12 LTS

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10:04

    As part of improving the experience of FreeBSD on laptops and desktops, FreeBSD developers have updated their drm-kmod port against the state of the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel...
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      Linux Finally Ends AppleTalk Protocol Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9:40

    While the AppleTalk networking protocols were innovative when they first appeared for their plug-and-play capabilities, Apple itself ended their AppleTalk support back in 2009. Now 17 years later, the Linux kernel is ending AppleTalk support due to a recent surge of AI-generated patches...
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      IO_uring, NVMe & Other Block + Device Mapper Changes Merged For Linux 7.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8:00

    Linux 7.2 continues seeing a fair amount of storage-related changes from file-systems to the block device code itself, software RAID, the wonderful IO_uring interface, and more. Here is some of the latest feature work that has been merged for Linux 7.2...