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Linux Lands Fix For Some TLB Flushes Being Inadvertently Skipped

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 May

Merged yesterday to Linux 6.15 Git and marked for back-porting to stable kernel series in the coming days is an x86 memory management fix to eliminate a window whereby TLB flushes could be inadvertently skipped...

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Servo Browser Engine Now Rendering Gmail & Google Chat, Decides Against AI Contributions

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 May

The Servo browser engine project has published a status update outlining some of the enhancements made over the past two months for this Rust-based web layout engine. This includes hitting a notable milestone that some websites like Gmail and Google Chat can now render correctly...

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GNOME Showtime Accepted As Video Player App For GNOME 49

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 May

Back in January you may recall the news of GNOME's Showtime app looking to replace Totem as the default video player. That didn't happen in time for GNOME 48 back in March but this week all the formalities were met that Showtime has been cleared to replace the outdated Totem with GNOME 49...

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Samsung Odyssey OLED G8 G81SF 4K UHD HDR Monitor

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 May

With modern Linux distributions beginning to see good support for HDR displays, if you have been looking to upgrade to a high dynamic range OLED monitor, one of the newest options that recently launched by Samsung is the Odyssey OLED G8 G81SF. I've been testing out the Samsung G81SF the past few weeks and it's been working out well paired with the likes of Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42 to deliver a beautiful desktop experience and a great experience for Linux gamers with supporting a 240Hz refresh rate and AMD FreeSync Premium Pro.

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RADV Vulkan Driver Lands BFloat16 Support In Mesa 25.2

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 May

Introduced at the end of March was Vulkan 1.4.311 with VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 for allowing BFloat16 "BF16" operations within SPIR-V shaders with SPV_KHR_bfloat16. This BFloat16 support can be beneficial for Vulkan machine learning / AI workloads and other use cases moving forward. Now the Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is the newest wiring up support for VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16...

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DeepComputing's DC-ROMA RISC-V Mainboard II For Framework Laptop Launches For $349

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 May

The past year we've been looking forward to a RISC-V motherboard option coming to the Framework Laptop 13 via Framework's partnership with DeepComputing. There was early access in late 2024 while this week DeepComputing has formally announced the DC-ROMA RISC-V AI PC Mainboard II now available at $349 USD...

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Intel NPU Linux Driver 1.17 Released

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 May

Out this morning is the Intel NPU Linux Driver 1.17 release as the newest version of their user-space Neural Processing Unit (NPU) driver code that interfaces with the IVPU accelerator kernel driver...

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Debian Looks To Better Address Ill-Maintained / Dormant Packages

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 May

Newly re-elected Debian Project Leader Andreas Tille posted today to the project's mailing list a few updates about different happenings in the Debian world ahead of the Debian 13 "Trixie" release due out in the coming months and also with DebConf 25 happening this July in Brest, France...

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Mesa's Lavapipe Driver Wires Up More Features Used By VKD3D-Proton

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 May

Mesa developer Konstantin Seurer has been adding more features to the Lavapipe Vulkan driver for functionality needed by VKD3D-Proton for mapping Direct3D 12 APIs atop Vulkan...