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Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 Dropping The X.Org Server Except For XWayland

Phoronix - Tue, 11/28/2023 - 19:15
Red Hat has formally confirmed what many were thinking: Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 will be doing away with X.Org Server support aside from XWayland...

Mir 2.16 Released With Seamless Boot Integration, Improved X11 Client Support

Phoronix - Tue, 11/28/2023 - 19:04
Canonical this morning released Mir 2.16 as the latest version of this open-source software for helping to build out Wayland compositors...

PowerVR Binary Blob Added To Linux-Firmware.Git For New Graphics Driver

Phoronix - Tue, 11/28/2023 - 17:00
With the Imagination PowerVR open-source kernel graphics driver expected for Linux 6.8, the necessary firmware binary blob has now been accepted into linux-firmware.git...

Corsair MP700 PRO 2TB PCIe Gen5 NVMe SSD

Phoronix - Tue, 11/28/2023 - 14:00
Corsair this month released the MP700 PRO NVMe SSD as the company's newest PCI Express Gen5 NVMe SSD. After the initial issues encountered with the Corsair MP700, I was eager to see how well this PCIe 5.0 solid-state drive would perform. Corsair rates their MP700 PRO SSD as capable of reaching up to 12,400 MB/s sequential reads and 11,800 MB/s sequential writes.

Wayland's Weston 13.0 Released With Multi-Backend Support & Overlapping Outputs

Phoronix - Tue, 11/28/2023 - 13:00
Weston 13.0 has been released as the latest major update to this reference Wayland compositor that attracts various experimental features and other innovations as developers experiment in the post-X11 world...

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