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      FFmpeg swscale Rewrite Begins Landing With 2.6x Faster Overall, As Much As 254x

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 September

    Now that FFmpeg 8.0 has shipped for this widely-used multimedia library, development is back on of major feature work toward the next major release. Landing on Monday was the initial code for a major rewrite to the swscale code in providing a new framework that is faster and more maintainable/extensible moving forward...
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      Intel Power Slider Support For Panther Lake Set To Premier In Linux 6.18

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 September

    Last month Intel posted new Linux patches for a "SoC power slider" feature premiering with upcoming Intel Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" laptops. That SoC Power Slider support for the Intel int340x is now expected to be upstreamed with the Linux 6.18 kernel later this year...
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      Linux's Current & Future Rust Graphics Drivers Getting Their Own Development Tree

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 September

    To help in accelerating the development of kernel graphics drivers and any other NPU/accelerator drivers written in the Rust programming language, the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem is creating its own DRM-Rust development tree for drivers and associated Rust infrastructure...
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      Steam On Linux Use Recedes Slightly During August

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 September

    For the Steam Survey results published last month for July it showed Steam on Linux use approaching 3%. With hitting 2.89% in July there was hope that perhaps in August it would breach the elusive 3.0% threshold not seen since the original days of Steam on Linux when the overall Steam user base was also much smaller than it is today. But that didn't pan out and Steam on Linux numbers for August are showing a small dip...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/Steam-Survey-August-2025

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      GIMP 3.1.4 Released With A Project From 2006 Resurrected And Another Big Feature

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 September

    GIMP 3.1.4 is out today as the second development release treking toward GIMP 3.2. Most notable with GIMP 3.1.4 are the initial implementations of two of the main features planned for GIMP 3.2: link layers and vector layers...
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      Rust 1.90 Switching To LLD Linker On Linux For Faster Linking Times

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 September

    With the Rust 1.90 release due out in mid-September, the Rust compiler on Linux x86_64 will begun using the LLD linker by default in order to "significantly reduce" linking times...
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      AMD Begins Queuing Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.18

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 September

    On Friday AMD sent out their initial batch of kernel graphics driver feature changes intended for merging to the Linux 6.18 kernel later this year...
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      www.phoronix.com /news/AMDGPU-Linux-6.18-Start

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      Gentex PLACE Any Space PL1AS / PL1K As A Replacement For Nest Protect Smoke Detectors

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 September

    Not your typical review on Phoronix today but rather a brief look at the Gentex PLACE Any Space smoke detectors and carbon monoxide detectors. For those facing ten years on their Nest Protect smoke detectors and looking for an end-of-life replacement to these smoke detectors discontinued by Google, the Gentex PLACE smart smoke detectors are an interesting and capable alternative. Being faced by needing to find a replacement to Nest Protects myself that have now expired and finding many others in the same boat with no clear winning smart smoke detector right now, I decided to go with the Gentex PLACE and figured it worthwhile to share a bit of my experience.
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      www.phoronix.com /review/place-any-space

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      Linux's exFAT File-System Driver Optimization Leads To 16.5x Speedup For Loading Time

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 September

    A patch queued up into the Linux exFAT driver's development tree optimizes the allocation bitmap loading time. For cases of small cluster sizes on large partitions this can yield around 16x faster loading times...
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