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      KDE Plasma 6.8 Lands Windows-Like Auto-Scrolling, Lower vRAM Usage For Breeze Theme

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 7 hours ago

    It's been an exciting start to the month of September for KDE Plasma developers with continuing to land last minute improvements for Plasma 6.8 ahead of its official release in mid-October...
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      Wine 11.17 Released With Initial Support For Display Mode Emulation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 8 hours ago

    Wine 11.17 is out today as the newest bi-weekly feature development release for this software enabling Windows games and apps to run on Linux...
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      Amazon Linux 2027 Shows Off Nice Performance Gains On AMD EPYC In The AWS Cloud

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    Yesterday AWS announced the public preview of Amazon Linux 2027 as their successor to the current Amazon Linux 2023 in-house distribution. With all the software upgrades and improvements like building packages now with link-time optimizations (LTO), enforcing x86-64-v3 builds, and other changes, I was eager to run some performance benchmarks of Amazon Linux 2023 vs. Amazon Linux 2027 in the EC2 cloud.
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      NetworkManager Works To Enforce AI Policy By Tricking AI Agents To Add A Canary

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    Last month the NetworkManager project adopted an AI coding policy where authors are responsible for 100% of the code they submit and must be able to explain it all. In an attempt to catch AI coding agents that may be trying to bypass their policy, they have added an interesting canary to the project to try to catch such AI-generated patches so they can then be automatically dealt with...
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      PoCL 7.2 Released With Official OpenCL 3.0 Conformance On RISC-V & x86_64 CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    The Portable Computing Language project is out today with PoCL 7.2 as this portable, MIT-licensed OpenCL implementation that runs across various CPU architectures as well as targeting other GPUs/hardware with LLVM back-ends. Notable with PoCL 7.2 is bringing official OpenCL 3.0 conformance on x86_64 and RISC-V processors...
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      XDC 2026 Will Feature Many Interesting Talks: Vulkan Gallium, OpenCL On CUDA & More

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    The annual X.Org Developer's Conference "XDC 2026" is happening later this month in Toronto. A great number of interesting talks are planned this year from new Wayland features to OpenCL over CUDA, the possibility of Vulkan Gallium, and a lot of exciting driver developments...
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      Linux 7.4 To Improve Apple Silicon Audio Support & Its "Impossible" Power Management

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    The Apple Silicon audio driver code within the Linux kernel is preparing to make use of the recent shared GPIO infrastructure for allowing multiple drivers / kernel components to nicely share the same GPIO lines. This should help clean things up in the mainline kernel for the Apple Silicon audio support and with a cleaner architecture than the current downstream Asahi Linux code...
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      Fedora 47 Considering Use Of Thin LTO Compiler Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 hours ago

    A change proposal filed for what would be part of Fedora Linux 47 is on making use of Thin LTO rather than Fat LTO for link-time optimizations. With Thin LTO being more memory efficient and faster build speeds, the hope is that more Fedora packages could also use Thin LTO for packages where no link-time optimizations are currently leveraged...
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      Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 3 Monthly ISOs Released For Testing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Released tonight is Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" Snapshot 3 as the newest monthly ISO candidates for Ubuntu Linux...