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      KDE Plasma Development Branch Switches To Qt6-Only

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 28 February, 2023

    As of today the KDE Plasma development branch is now made Qt6-only as development work on Plasma 6.0 heats up...
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      GIMP 2.10.34 Released With JPEG XL Export, Some Backports From GIMP 2.99 Series

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 February, 2023

    While GIMP 3.0 will hopefully release this year after years of waiting, for those using the current GIMP 2.10 stable series the v2.10.34 release is now available to round out the day...
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      AMD Ryzen 9 7950X3D Linux Performance

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 February, 2023

    Ahead of tomorrow's launch of the AMD Ryzen 7800X3D / 7900X3D / 7950X3D processors, today marks the embargo expiry on the flagship Ryzen 9 7950X3D 3D V-Cache processor. Today I can share with you the initial performance around the performance of this $699 USD processor that features a 144MB cache.
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      Apache OpenOffice 4.1.14 Brings A Handful Of Bug Fixes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 February, 2023

    LibreOffice 7.5 released earlier this month as just the latest six-month update to this cross-platform, open-source office suite while today the Apache Software Foundation released OpenOffice 4.1.14. While the prior release, Apache OpenOffice 4.1.13, happened all the way back in July, there isn't much to show for today's update...
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      Armbian 23.02 ARM/RISC-V OS Released With Linux 6.1 LTS Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 February, 2023

    Armbian as the Ubuntu and Debian based Linux distribution that is optimized for single board computers primarily in the ARM/AArch64 and RISC-V space is out with its first major update of 2023...
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      Vulkan 1.3.242 Released With New NVIDIA Low-Latency Extension

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 February, 2023

    The Vulkan 1.3.242 spec is now available with a handful of clarifications and fixes to the existing text as well as introducing the new VK_NV_low_latency extension...
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      Linux Inadvertently Has Been Leaving IBRS-Mitigated Systems Without STIBP

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 February, 2023

    The Linux kernel since last year has mistakenly left systems relying on the original Indirect Branch Restricted Speculation (IBRS) for Spectre V2 mitigation without Single Threaded Indirect Branch Predictor (STIBP) coverage for cross-HyperThread dealing with this Spectre vulnerability. There is a patch underway that is resolving this issue for Intel Skylake era systems...
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      RADV Working Toward D3D12 FL 12.2 Support With VKD3D-Proton

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 February, 2023

    The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is seeing work towards being able to support Direct3D 12 Feature Level 12.2 with VKD3D-Proton to further enhance the Steam Play gaming experience on Linux...
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      Linux Getting Quirk For Working NVMe PCIe On Surface Pro X, ThinkPad X13s

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 27 February, 2023

    A change made to the Linux kernel back in 2016 is causing issues with NVMe PCIe support on some ARM64 devices like the Microsoft Surface Pro X and Lenovo ThinkPad X13s. A new kernel quirk is on the way for aiming to address that and yield working NVMe storage...