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Miracle-WM 0.6 Brings Many Improvements For This Mir-Based Wayland Compositor

Phoronix - Wed, 07/09/2025 - 21:54
Miracle-WM 0.6 is out today as a mega release for this Mir-based Wayland compositor by Canonical/Ubuntu developer Matthew Kosarek. Miracle-WM provides tiling window manager support inspired by i3 and Sway while being one of the most pronounced users of the Mir code...

Intel SR-IOV Support Ready For Panther Lake Graphics But Some Current Platforms Left Behind

Phoronix - Wed, 07/09/2025 - 20:58
Intel discontinued Graphics Virtualization Technology (GVT-G) support several generations ago in favor of supporting SR-IOV for graphics virtualization with Iris Xe and newer integrated/discrete graphics hardware. But with the transition as well from the Linux i915 to Xe kernel graphics drivers, the official SR-IOV support state on Intel graphics is in a bit of an awkward state...

PowerVR Vulkan Driver Enhancements Merged Ahead Of Mesa 25.2

Phoronix - Wed, 07/09/2025 - 18:57
The Mesa 25.2 code is expected to be branched next week to kick off the release process for this quarter's iteration of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. As such, there's going to be a mad dash over the next week to land lingering features and other improvements for Mesa 25.2. Making it into Mesa Git today was a big set of 42 patches for the Imagination PowerVR Vulkan driver...

Google Developing Skia "Graphite" For Faster Chrome: Multi-Threaded + Modern Graphics APUs

Phoronix - Wed, 07/09/2025 - 18:40
Google yesterday lifted the lid on their work around Skia "Graphite" as a new rasterization back-end designed for modern graphics APIs like Vulkan and supporting multi-threading by default. Skia Graphite aims to deliver much better performance within the Chrome/Chromium web browser...

Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0.20250702 Brings Many Security Fixes

Phoronix - Wed, 07/09/2025 - 18:32
Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.20250702 on Tuesday as the newest monthly update to this in-house Linux distribution used throughout the company and by external parties...

PHP 8.5 Alpha 1 Released With New Features

Phoronix - Wed, 07/09/2025 - 18:21
The first alpha release of PHP 8.5 was issued last week in kicking off the release cycle in working toward the official PHP 8.5.0 release later in the year...

Why agents are the new kingmakers

Red Hat News - Wed, 07/09/2025 - 08:00
In 2013, Redmonk analyst Steven O’Grady positioned application developers as the new kingmakers. It was a role that enterprise IT had served since the rise of business-driven computing. First, systems administrators held the keys to the kingdom by having the (then) esoteric knowledge of the operating system - but as Linux took hold in the late 90s/early 00s, the applications, not the OS, took center stage. This made developers the unlikely “voice behind the throne” in a CxO monarchy. But we’re looking at another shift in royalty fabrication with the continued velocity of generative AI

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