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Wine Wayland Driver Prepares Display Mode Change Emulation

Phoronix - Sun, 01/28/2024 - 23:08
Now being past the Wine 9.0 code freeze and the bi-weekly development releases back underway with eyes now set on Wine 10.0 next year, the 12th part of the Wine Wayland driver has been published for review. This latest set of Wine Wayland work is on implementing display mode change emulation...

Linux 6.8-rc2 Adds More Zen 5 IDs, AMD PMF Will Know If You're In Front Of Your Laptop

Phoronix - Sun, 01/28/2024 - 22:54
New code submitted for the ongoing Linux 6.8 cycle are some AMD additions now set for premiering in today's Linux 6.8-rc2 release...

GNOME Sees Progress On Variable Refresh Rate Setting, Adding Battery Charge Control

Phoronix - Sun, 01/28/2024 - 22:22
There's been some new work pending for further enhancing the GNOME desktop when it comes around Variable Rate Refresh (VRR). Separately, there's new merge requests pending for adding laptop battery charge threshold controls from the GNOME UI...

TuxClocker 1.5 Released With Radeon RX 7000 Series Fan Control Support

Phoronix - Sun, 01/28/2024 - 21:55
TuxClocker as the open-source, hardware/driver vendor independent overclocking and power management control utility for Linux systems is out with a new feature release. This Qt-based utility for enthusiasts continues adding new controls primarily around greater power/performance tunables for CPUs and GPUs...

Niri Debuts As A Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Inspired By PaperWM

Phoronix - Sun, 01/28/2024 - 04:27
The newest Wayland compositor on the scene with its first stable release is Niri, a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor inspired by the PaperWM GNOME Shell extesnsion...

Arch-Based Endeavour OS Updates ISO With Linux 6.7 Kernel, Mesa 23.3.3

Phoronix - Sat, 01/27/2024 - 21:56
Endeavour OS as the popular desktop rolling-release Linux distribution built upon Arch Linux has published updated ISOs that bundle in the stable Linux 6.7 kernel as well as other package updates...

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