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      Niri 25.08 Wayland Compositor Introduces xwayland-satellite Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 September

    Niri 25.08 is out this week as the newest version of this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. Notable now is adding xwayland-satellite integration for offering legacy X11 app support...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/Niri-25.08-Released

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      Intel Arc Pro B50 Linux Performance Benchmarks

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 September

    Intel announced the Arc Pro B-Series back at Computex consisting of the Arc Pro B50 and Arc Pro B60 graphics cards. Marking availability today and the review embargo lift is for the Arc Pro B50 for workstations, which provides 16GB of RAM, 70 Watt total board power, and a $349 USD launch price for this workstation graphics card. Here are the preliminary Linux performance benchmarks and open-source driver support metrics for the Intel Arc Pro B50.
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      www.phoronix.com /review/intel-arc-pro-b50-linux

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      Fedora's Reproducible Package Build Mandate Deferred To F44

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 September

    One of the planned changes for Fedora 43 was setting an expectation that RPM package builds are reproducible. Much of Fedora's "reproducible builds" effort is already complete but this change has now been deferred to the Fedora 44 release next year...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/Fedora-44-Reproducible-Builds

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      Linux Scheduler Adapted For A Latency Win & Avoiding An RT Deadlock

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 September

    A patch series for the Linux kernel scheduler code is queued up for expected introduction in Linux 6.18 to defer throttle when tasks exit to user-space. These changes to switch the scheduler to a task-based throttle model and task-based throttle time accounting can provide a latency win and also address a possible deadlock situation for real-time "RT" kernels...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/Linux-CFS-Defer-Throttle

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      Linux Sees Fresh Fixes For PCMCIA PC Card Support In 2025

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 September

    It's not too often hearing PCMCIA these days as that defunct PC card standard for laptops from the 90's and early 00's. Back in 2023 Linux began dropping old PCMCIA drivers from the kernel while coming as a surprise today are some clean-ups for the Personal Computer Memory Card International Association (PCMCIA) subsystem code persisting within the Linux kernel...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/Linux-PCMCIA-Fixes-2025

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      Improved Intel Vulkan Video Code Merged For Mesa 25.3

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 September

    Merged overnight to Mesa 25.3 is an improvement for the Intel driver's Vulkan Video encode/decode handling that has been in the works the past few months...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/Intel-Vulkan-Video-Layered-Surf

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      ollama 0.11.9 Introducing A Nice CPU/GPU Performance Optimization

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 September

    The ollama open-source software that makes it easy to run AI large language models (LLMs) across different operating systems, hardware, and models is about to enjoy a nice speed boost...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/ollama-0.11.9-More-Performance

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      SDL Merges X11TK: A Basic X11 Toolkit

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 September

    It looks like the Simple DirectMedia Layer (SDL) library widely used by cross-platform games for software/hardware abstractions isn't done enhancing its support for running on the X.Org/X11 Server. Similarly, Valve is still committing resources to enhancing the support...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/SDL-Merges-X11TK-X11-Toolkit

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      Fedora ARM Release Changes Coming Due To Red Hat QA Team Reduction

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 September

    Due to a "significant portion" of Red Hat's internal QA team responsible for Fedora QA leaving the company or switching to other teams at Red Hat, there are some Fedora ARM release changes coming to deal with the reduced abilities of their quality assurance team...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/Fedora-ARM-Changes-Red-Hat-QA