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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 • 10 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 • 11 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...
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      Mesa 26.3 RADV + RadeonSI Ready With DRM Format Modifiers For Older AMD GPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Coming with Linux 7.3 is DRM format modifiers for GFX6 through GFX8 era GPUs covering the original Raddeon HD 7000 (GCN 1.0) graphics cards up through the Polaris and Fiji series. This work by Valve's Timur Kristóf is necessary for these older GPUs to support Vulkan-based Wayland compositors, better interoperability between OpenGL and Vulkan or other APis, compositors running on the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation, and other benefits. Now merged for Mesa 26.3 is the RadeonSI and RADV user-space side support for making use of the format modifiers on these older GPUs...
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      Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS Released With Linux 7.0 HWE Stack

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    For those continuing to make use of the Ubuntu 24.04 Long Term Support "LTS" series, Ubuntu 24.04.5 LTS is out today as the newest point release...
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      Intel Xeon 600 Workstation Performance vs. AMD Threadripper 9000 In Nearly 400 Benchmarks

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Last month I had the chance to test the Xeon 678X workstation processor as my first hands-on opportunity with the Xeon 600 "Granite Rapids WS" series. The Intel Xeon 678X was within the HP Z4 G6i workstation and used it for a number of different benchmarks. In that HP workstation review were also some comparison points to the likes of AMD Ryzen Threadripper while in this article are some much more concentrated benchmarks between the competing Xeon 600 series and AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series for workstations. Nearly 400 benchmarks plus power and frequency comparison too.
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      KDE Plasma 6.8 Beta Released With Many Great Improvements, Kup Backup Scheduler

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Ahead of the stable release of Plasma 6.8 due out on 14 October that also marks the 30th anniversary of the KDE project, out today is the much anticipated beta release...