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KDE's KWin Wayland & X11 Code Are Now Split, KWin_X11 To Be Maintained Until Plasma 7

Phoronix - Wed, 03/12/2025 - 18:53
Yesterday marked the milestone of KWin's kwin_x11 and kwin_wayland code being split up. The Wayland and X11 code for the KWin compositor is now separate from each other but can be co-installable for systems wanting to support both X11 and Wayland environments...

Haiku OS Wrapping Up Its New malloc & Various Performance Optimizations

Phoronix - Wed, 03/12/2025 - 18:44
The BeOS-inspired Haiku open-source operating system project is out with a new monthly progress report to highlight its latest development accomplishments...

LLVM 20's Great Fortran Language Support With Flang

Phoronix - Wed, 03/12/2025 - 18:33
With the newly-released LLVM 20.1 compiler stack among the many changes throughout the massive codebase is renaming the "flang-new" compiler just to "flang". This new Flang compiler front-end has matured quite well over the years to providing robust and reliable Fortran language support within the confines of the LLVM toolchain...

Jonathan Riddell Stepping Down From KDE Plasma Release Management

Phoronix - Wed, 03/12/2025 - 18:18
Longtime KDE developer who has served with Plasma release management duties, KDE Neon operating system development, and former Kubuntu release manager, among other roles, announced he will be stepping down from his Plasma release management duties...

MangoHud – Monitor FPS, CPU & GPU Load in Linux Games

Tecmint - Wed, 03/12/2025 - 13:31
The post MangoHud – Monitor FPS, CPU & GPU Load in Linux Games first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

MangoHud is a powerful and lightweight tool designed for gamers, developers, and anyone who wants to monitor their system’s performance

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GStreamer 1.26 Released With Vulkan Improvements, H.266/VVC + LCEVC + JPEG-XS Support

Phoronix - Wed, 03/12/2025 - 08:19
GStreamer 1.26 is out today as the newest major feature release for this widely-used open-source multimedia framework...

Intel Overclocking Watchdog Driver Posted For The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Wed, 03/12/2025 - 02:10
An unexpected patch on the Linux kernel mailing list today by a Siemens engineer is implementing a driver for the Intel Over-Clocking Watchdog...

Nouveau On NVIDIA Turing GPUs & Newer Will Now Prefer NVK+Zink For OpenGL

Phoronix - Wed, 03/12/2025 - 00:40
As a sign of the times for both the NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver within Mesa and the generic Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan code, with next quarter's Mesa 25.1 release when using a NVIDIA Turing GPU or newer with the Nouveau driver stack it will now default to using Zink atop NVK for OpenGL rather than the existing NVC0 Gallium3D driver...

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