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      FEX 2508 Delivers Major Speedups For x86_64 Binaries On ARM: 39% Faster Cyberpunk 2077

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 August

    FEX 2508 as the open-source emulator that allows running x86_64 Linux binaries on AArch64, including the likes of Wine and Valve's Steam Play, is boasting some "big juicy" optimizations with its new release. Many games are now significantly faster atop FEX...
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      FireWire IEEE-1394 Support Further Refined In Linux 6.17

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 August

    While Apple removed FireWire support from the upcoming macOS 26 "Tahoe" release, Linux support for the IEEE-1394 standard continues. With the in-development Linux 6.17 there is some modernization work on the FireWire subsystem code with plan still being to maintain FireWire support on Linux until at least 2029...
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      KDE Plasma 6.5 Finally Adds Automatic Day/Night Theme Switching

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 August

    KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly report on the interesting Plasma desktop changes for the week. This week a long-sought feature for the Plasma desktop was finally merged...
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      Steam Survey For July Shows Linux Use Approaching 3%

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 August

    Back in February Steam on Linux was at a 1.45% marketshare, then was corrected to 2.33% for Linux gaming in March, 2.27% for April, a nice jump to 2.69% for Linux gaming in May, and June came in at 2.57% for the Linux gaming population as a percent of Steam users. The July numbers were published this evening and show a new recent high for Linux gamers...
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      Wayback 0.2 Brings More Enhancements For This X11 Compatibility Layer

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 August

    In time for some weekend testing, Wayback 0.2 is now available for this X11 compatibility layer leveraging Wayland components. Wayback 0.2 remains at an alpha quality state but more functionality is now wired up...
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      Deferred Unwinder Code Upstreamed For Linux 6.17 On Road To SFrame Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 August

    Linus Torvalds today merged the initial deferred unwinder infrastructure into the Linux 6.17 kernel on the path toward enabling SFrame stack trace format support...
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      Linux Enablement Begins For Intel Nova Lake - The First "Family 18" CPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 August

    Today the first Linux kernel patch was posted for Intel's Nova Lake as the anticipated successor to the Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Arrow Lake" processors. Today's patch confirms that Intel Nova Lake will be the first Intel processors under their new "Family 18" umbrella...
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      Attack Vector Controls Land In Linux 6.17 To Better Control CPU Security Mitigations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 August

    The Attack Vector Controls work is now in Linux 6.17 for those new tuning knobs worked on by AMD engineer David Kaplan to make it more straight-forward for Linux server administrators and power users to more easily select the CPU security mitigations relevant to their system(s) and intended workloads...
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      Vulkan 1.4.324 Adds Experimental AMD Extension To Help With Ray-Tracing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 August

    Vulkan 1.4.324 is out today as the first Vulkan API specification update in two weeks with a variety of clarifications/corrections plus a new extension from AMD...
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