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KDE Plasma 6.7 To Provide A Much Better Experience For CPU-Based Rendering

Phoronix - Thu, 05/07/2026 - 18:29
KDE developer Xaver Hugl has whipped up another nice improvement for the upcoming Plasma 6.7 desktop release. Due to QtWidgets still relying on CPU-based rendering and finding the performance subpar with Wayland shared memory "wl_shm" usage, Xaver has leveraged UDMABUF for avoiding excess buffer copies to provide a much more fluid experience when dealing with CPU-based rendering / shared memory usage on KDE under Wayland...

New GCC Back-End Proposed For WebAssembly

Phoronix - Thu, 05/07/2026 - 18:17
When it comes to compiling C/C++ code to WebAssembly (WASM), LLVM/Clang and other LLVM-based tooling has dominated the space. Nearly a decade ago was a proposal for a GCC WebAssembly back-end that ultimately never ended up being merged while now there is a new proposal for a WebAssembly back-end for the GNU toolchain...

SR-IOV Support Appears To Be Coming For Next-Gen Ryzen AI NPUs

Phoronix - Thu, 05/07/2026 - 18:06
AMD recently upstreamed Linux support for their next-gen AIE4 NPU. That next-gen AMD NPU support is expected to premiere in Linux 7.2 while this week an interesting new patch series has surfaced for SR-IOV support with those upcoming neural processing units...

How to Create a Test File of Any Size in Linux

Tecmint - Thu, 05/07/2026 - 11:40
The post How to Create a Test File of Any Size in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

You need a 1GB test file to benchmark your disk, fill a partition to a specific threshold, or simulate a

The post How to Create a Test File of Any Size in Linux first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Rust-Written Redox OS Sees Improvements For Running On Real Hardware

Phoronix - Thu, 05/07/2026 - 08:22
Redox OS is out with its status report for April 2026. During the past month this open-source, Rust-based operating system written from scratch has seen improvements for running on real hardware as well as a wide variety of other improvements for bettering this original OS project...

D7VK 1.9 Brings Some Hefty Performance Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 05/07/2026 - 07:43
D7VK continues advancing for this Vulkan-based implementation of Direct3D 7 that also supports D3D 6 / 5 / 3 APIs too for vintage games ultimately rendered using the modern Vulkan API...

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