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Rust Language Celebrates Ten Years By Releasing Rust 1.87

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 May

Rust 1.87 is now available as the newest version of this popular programming language. With the Rust 1.87 release it also marks ten years already of this system programming language focused on memory safety and modern features...

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Mutter SDK Merged For GNOME 49

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 May

Adding to the excitement for this September's GNOME 49 release is introducing the Mutter SDK...

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KDE Plasma 6.4 Beta Released With Aurorae & KWin-X11

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 May

The beta release of the KDE Plasma 6.4 beta desktop is now available for testing ahead of its official release in June...

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CachyOS, Clear Linux & Debian 13 Deliver The Best Performance On Framework Laptop 13 With AMD Strix Point

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 May

For those that may be upgrading to the new Framework 13 with AMD Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" SoCs and curious about hitting the best possible Linux performance, this article is for you. Here is a look at the performance of the Framework Laptop 13 with AMD Ryzen AI 9 HX 370 across CachyOS, Clear Linux, Debian, Fedora Workstation 42, Manjaro Linux 25.0, openSUSE Tumbleweed, and Ubuntu 25.04.

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Linux Patches Updated For Dropping Support For Very Old x86 CPUs

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 May

Posted last month were Linux patches for removing support for very old i486 and early i586 CPUs. While not yet mainlined to the Linux kernel contrary to some of the reporting elsewhere, this work for removing TSC-less and CX8-less x86 CPUs remains ongoing and out today is the second iteration of the patches...

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Arch Linux Installer Adds Labwc & Niri Wayland Compositor Options

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 May

Archinstall 3.0.5 is now available as the latest update to this easy-to-use, text-based Arch Linux OS installer...

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Linux Swap Table Code Shows The Potential For Huge Performance Gains

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 May

Following recent discussions by Linux kernel developers around integrating swap cache and swap maps functionality with the swap allocator, Swap Table was born. With Swap Tables the hope is for lower memory use, higher performance, dynamic swap allocation and growth, greater extensibility, and other improvements over the existing swap code within the Linux kernel...

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Vulkan 1.4.315 With VK_EXT_zero_initialize_device_memory For VKD3D-Proton & More

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 May

Released last week was the Vulkan 1.4.315 spec update and with it comes the new VK_EXT_zero_initialize_device_memory extension for allowing device memory allocations to be zero-initialized...

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Intel ANV Driver Lands Fixes For AV1 Decoding With Vulkan Video

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 May

For those interested in making use of GPU-accelerated AV1 video decoding with Intel graphics hardware using the Vulkan Video API, some important fixes were merged to Mesa 25.2-devel and will presumably be backported soon to existing Mesa releases...