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Intel TDX Is Becoming Potentially Faster, Avoiding "Slow & Buggy" Code Path On Linux

Phoronix - Wed, 04/02/2025 - 20:19
Intel Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) for providing hardware-backed isolation and confidential computing support for virtual machines (VMs) on modern Xeon processors is about to become more reliable and potentially faster for some workloads...

Qt 6.9 Released With Performance Work, Better Emoji Handling & Greater Visualizations

Phoronix - Wed, 04/02/2025 - 18:30
Qt 6.9 was just released as the newest version of this open-source, cross-platform graphics toolkit...

KDE Plasma 6.3.4 Now Shipping With The Latest Crash Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 04/02/2025 - 18:11
KDE Plasma 6.3.4 shipped this morning as the newest monthly point release for the Plasma 6.3 desktop...

Intel Linux Driver Finally Dropping The Experimental Flag For Original DG1 Graphics

Phoronix - Wed, 04/02/2025 - 18:05
Intel's original DG1 discrete GPU was principally a development vehicle on the path to DG2/Alchemist. It did appear with the Iris Xe Max laptop dGPU in very few configurations but surprisingly it's taken until now where the Intel Linux graphics driver is set to remove the experimental "force_probe" flag on these pre-Alchemist discrete GPUs...

Many Scheduler Updates In The Linux 6.15 Kernel

Phoronix - Wed, 04/02/2025 - 17:45
Merged last week for the Linux 6.15 merge window were a bit set of scheduler updates...

Steam On Linux Shows A Wild Swing Back Up For March 2025

Phoronix - Wed, 04/02/2025 - 08:34
The Steam Survey results for February showed a 0.61% drop for Linux gaming marketshare following a 20.8% increase to the Chinese use, which was yet another month of such wild swings attributed to a large influx in Simplified Chinese survey respondents. The March results for Steam Survey were published this evening and show the Linux marketshare more than recovering now that the English survey results have shot back up...

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