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Support For More Bluetooth Guitars & Other HID Changes Ahead Of Linux 6.20~7.0

Phoronix - Tue, 01/20/2026 - 23:21
A lot of HID subsystem updates have been queuing up ahead of the Linux 6.20~7.0 merge window in February. There is a lot of new hardware support on the way along with quirks for some existing hardware support ranging from laptop keyboard issues to enabling support for more PS4/PS5 guitars under Linux...

Patches Ready For Linux 7.0 To Enable Intel GPU Firmware Updates On Non-x86 Systems

Phoronix - Tue, 01/20/2026 - 22:08
Patches are now positioned to go into the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle for supporting Intel discrete GPU firmware updating on non-x86 systems...

Fedora 44 Feature Approved For Better Windows On ARM Laptop Experience

Phoronix - Tue, 01/20/2026 - 21:08
A change proposal has been cleared by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee "FESCo" for providing a nice out-of-the-box experience for Windows on ARM laptops namely the recent Snapdragon X1 laptops and will also be important for the upcoming Snapdragon X2 laptops too...

Adreno Gen 8 Vulkan Graphics Merged For Mesa 26.0 To Support The Snapdragon X2

Phoronix - Tue, 01/20/2026 - 19:18
Merged in time for the upcoming Mesa 26.0 release is the merging of Vulkan driver support for the Qualcomm Adreno Gen 8 graphics support that is notably used by the new Snapdragon X2 laptop SoCs as well as the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5...

DragonFlyBSD Now Allows Optional AMD GCN 1.1 Support In AMDGPU Driver

Phoronix - Tue, 01/20/2026 - 19:02
DragonFlyBSD's AMDGPU kernel graphics driver continues to be a port of the AMDGPU Linux kernel driver. Their latest porting effort for AMD graphics on DragonFlyBSD is now enabling optional support for the GCN 1.1 "Sea Islands (CIK) graphics processors on this modern alternative to the prior Radeon kernel driver...

How to Install ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors on Linux ARM64 Devices

Tecmint - Tue, 01/20/2026 - 17:10
The post How to Install ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors on Linux ARM64 Devices first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

ARM (Advanced RISC Machine) is a RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) instruction-set architecture developed by ARM Holdings, which is increasingly

The post How to Install ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors on Linux ARM64 Devices first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

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