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KDE Plasma 6 Alpha Approaches Next Week With The Soft Feature Freeze

Phoronix - Sat, 11/04/2023 - 18:01
The KDE Plasma 6 Alpha release is scheduled to take place on Wednesday, 8 November, along with the soft feature freeze for Plasma 6.0 at that time...

After A Delay, ISA Drivers Will Be Kept Around Until FreeBSD 15

Phoronix - Sat, 11/04/2023 - 12:00
FreeBSD 14.0-RC4 was issued today and as a last minute change they have decided to keep (non-PNP) ISA and GIANT-locked drivers around until FreeBSD 15...

Everybody Hates Linux - officemagazine.net

Google News - Sat, 11/04/2023 - 10:57
Everybody Hates Linux  officemagazine.net

Intel Updates Its Packaged Arc Graphics Driver For Ubuntu

Phoronix - Sat, 11/04/2023 - 07:45
Last year Intel made available a packaged "Arc Graphics Driver" for Ubuntu 22.04 LTS and later Ubuntu 23.04 to provide a DKMS-backported kernel driver and packaged Mesa driver to make it easier to use Arc Graphics (DG2/Alchemist) during the phase when the upstream kernel support was still stabilizing and not yet found out-of-the-box on Linux distributions at the time. This week marked another rare update for this packaged driver...

KVM Virtualization With Linux 6.7 Adds LoongArch, Up To 4096 x86 vCPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 11/04/2023 - 02:30
The Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) changes were sent out on Thursday for the Linux 6.7 merge window...

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