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Trying Out Snapdragon X Elite With The Acer Swift 14 AI Laptop On Ubuntu 26.04

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2026 - 19:55
This week I tried out the current Ubuntu 26.04 development state on the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite with the Acer Swift 14 AI laptop I have been using for my X Elite benchmarks over the past year. Unfortunately, it wasn't a smooth experience with new issues encountered for this Windows On ARM laptop...

Linux 7.1 Will Bring Power Estimate Reporting For AMD Ryzen AI NPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2026 - 19:06
This week's round of drm-misc-next patches bring a few improvements to the AMDXDNA accelerator driver used for supporting the Ryzen AI NPUs. Plus some new panel additions and various other minor Direct Rendering Manager driver changes...

Google Now Using AutoFDO To Enhance Android's Linux Kernel Performance

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2026 - 18:57
Google's Android LLVM toolchain team shared publicly this week that they have begun making use of AutoFDO for automatic feedback directed optimizations of their Linux kernel build used by Android...

KDE Plasma 6.6.3 Fixing Direct Scan-Out When Using Fractional Scaling

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2026 - 18:38
KDE developers continue being very busy working on Plasma 6.7 feature development as well as continuing to drive new fixes and refinements to the current Plasma 6.6 stable series...

Mesa's LLVMpipe Now Exposes Mesh Shader Support

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2026 - 18:33
Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics driver team has landed support for mesh shaders within Mesa's LLVMpipe software driver...

GNOME OS Switches To KMSCON Enabled By Default

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2026 - 18:20
GNOME OS as the Linux-based OSTree-using distribution that serves as the leading-edge, reference platform of GNOME desktop development is now using KMSCON by default...

debauit Announced As Debian Source Package Auditor

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2026 - 05:48
Announced today was debaudit, a new set of tools and services designed to verify the integrity and reproducibility of Debian source packages...

NVIDIA 595.44.03 Linux Driver Released With VK_KHR_device_address_commands

Phoronix - Sat, 03/14/2026 - 02:42
Less than a week after their prior NVIDIA Vulkan beta driver in the R595 driver series, today NVIDIA released another new Vulkan beta driver for Linux and Windows systems...

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