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UBports' Ubuntu Touch 20.04-Based Build Offered In New Beta/RC Channel
As a long awaited gift for those using UBports' Ubuntu Touch, for Christmas the open-source, community-driven crew published a beta/RC build of Ubuntu Touch re-based atop Ubuntu 20.04 LTS...
Solidigm P44 Pro Linux Performance
A few months back we looked at the Solidigm P41 Plus NVMe SSD from this company that formed when SK hynix acquired Intel's NAND/SSD business. The P41 Plus was a budget-friendly consumer SSD with QLC memory while recently they launched the P44 Pro as a step-up and based on the SK hynix Platinum P41 design. I've been testing the Solidigm P44 Pro 1TB and 2TB PCIe 4.0 NVMe SSDs under Linux to great performance.
AMD Posts P-State EPP v9 Driver That Aims To Be Ready For Linux 6.3
While the Linux 6.2 kernel merge window just wrapped up, AMD's P-State EPP driver was deemed not ready for making it this cycle. However, with AMD having now iterated it to a ninth revision, it's looking like this P-State "Energy Performance Preference" functionality over the existing P-State driver support will be ready for merging come Linux 6.3...
xf86-video-modesetting TearFree Page-Flipping Merged
The xf86-video-modesetting work covered a month ago over "TearFree" page flipping support has been merged to the X.Org Server for whenever the next release ends up happening...
Mold 1.8 Released With More Features For This High Performance Linker
It's been one year and a few days since the introduction of Mold 1.0 as a high performance linker alternative to GNU Gold and LLVM LLD while debuting today is Mold 1.8 as the newest feature release...
Qualcomm USB Audio Offloading Patches Posted For The Mainline Linux Kernel
Prior to the holiday weekend Qualcomm engineers posted a set of "request for comments" Linux kernel patches to implement USB audio offloading support for Qualcomm SoCs with a dedicated audio DSP...
Linux 6.2-rc1 Brings Stable Intel Arc Graphics, Call Depth Tracking & Many More Features
Following the two week long Linux 6.2 merge window colliding with Christmas day, Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.2-rc1 as capping off the merge window and moving on to the testing and bug fixing phase of this release cycle...
Sway 1.8 Released With More Secure Screen Locking, High Res Scroll Wheel Events
Sway 1.8 is out this Christmas as the newest feature release to this i3-inspired Wayland compositor...
Ruby 3.2 Released With WebAssembly Support, Production-Grade YJIT
Ruby programming language developers have issued a Christmas release of the latest iteration of this language focused on simplicity and productivity...
Linux 6.2 Brings A Big Rework To The MSI Subsystem
The IRQ pull request that was merged early in the Linux 6.2 cycle has a big rework to the Message Signaled Interrupts (MSI) subsystem...
Merry Christmas / Happy Holidays From Phoronix
Merry Christmas and Happy Holidays to all those celebrating at the end of 2022 as we get ready for the New Year...
AMD Working On RDNA3 User-Mode Graphics Queue For Their Linux GPU Driver
A request for comments patch series sent out by AMD Linux graphics driver engineers ahead of the holidays is implementing support for user-mode queues in conjunction with Radeon RX 7000 "Navi 3x" graphics cards and newer...
Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Spins Its First ISO
After two years of work, the Serpent OS Linux distribution has released its first public image for this innovative and original open-source operating system...
Arch-Powered Manjaro 22.0 Released With Xfce 4.18 Desktop, Linux 6.1 Kernel
Among many open-source software project releases timed for the holidays is Manjaro 22.0 now being available for this popular desktop distribution built atop Arch Linux...
KDE Developers Work On More Fixes & Features For Christmas Week
Christmas week didn't slow down KDE developers with there still being a number of features and fixes for this open-source desktop environment to land...
Haiku R1 Beta 4 Released With Improved HiDPI, WiFi Updates, Wayland Compatibility Layer
It was back in July 2021 that Haiku R1 Beta 3 was released for this spiritual successor to the BeOS operating system. Now before Christmas and closing out 2022, Haiku R1 Beta 4 has been released as the latest major milestone for this open-source operating system effort...
Meson 1.0 Build System Released
As a timely gift to programmers using the speedy and very successful Meson build system, the Meson 1.0 stable release has debuted just in time for Christmas...
AMD Improving The Linux Experience When Running New GPUs Without Proper Driver Support
While AMD provided upstream open-source driver support for the Radeon RX 7900 series launch, the initial user experience can be less than desirable if running a new Radeon GPU but initially running an out-of-date kernel or lacking the necessary firmware support. With a new patch series posted AMD is looking to improve the experience by being able to more easily fallback to the firmware frame-buffer when their AMDGPU kernel graphics driver fails to properly load...
Fedora 38 Wants To Make Sure Shutdowns & Reboots Are Faster
A change proposal to be evaluated still by FESCo would help ensure that system shutdowns and reboots can happen faster on Fedora Linux...
Rust-GPU 0.4 Released To Provide "First Class" GPU Graphics & Compute Shaders With Rust
Embark Studios has released a new version of Rust-GPU that has a goal of making Rust a first-class programming language and ecosystem for GPU shader development...