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SDL Merges Wayland Pointer Warp Support To Help Native Wayland Gaming

Phoronix - Sat, 06/14/2025 - 21:28
Introduced with this week's Wayland Protocols 1.45 release is adding the Pointer Warp protocol to staging. The SDL hardware/software abstraction library commonly used by cross-platform games was quick to merge support for using the native Pointer Warp protocol on Wayland...

GNOME's Busy Week With Disabling X11 Session By Default, Greater systemd Dependence

Phoronix - Sat, 06/14/2025 - 21:07
This Week in GNOME is out with its latest issue and there being a number of recent controversial changes to the desktop platform...

Haiku OS Restores EXT4 Compatibility, RISC-V Once Again Booting

Phoronix - Sat, 06/14/2025 - 20:55
The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS published their latest monthly report to outline progress made over the past month...

KDE Plasma 6.5 To Introduce Wayland Picture-In-Picture Support

Phoronix - Sat, 06/14/2025 - 18:08
While KDE Plasma 6.4 is set for release next week, there are already exciting feature improvements brewing for Plasma 6.5...

Wine 10.10 Brings Updated Mono, 38 Bug Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 06/14/2025 - 07:18
Wine 10.10 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software that allows running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms...

Bcachefs Is Now Able To Auto-Fix A Few More Fsck Errors

Phoronix - Sat, 06/14/2025 - 05:00
Another round of Bcachefs file-system fixes were submitted and merged this week for the ongoing Linux 6.16 cycle, including the ability to auto-fix more file-system check "fsck" errors...

Intel Begins Preparing Linux For Next-Gen DSA 3.0 Accelerators

Phoronix - Sat, 06/14/2025 - 02:08
In addition to Intel recently upstreaming Linux support for new QAT "Gen 6" hardware as their next-generation QuickAssist Technology IP, Intel today began posting Linux kernel driver patches for a new version of their Data Streaming Accelerator (DSA). It looks like upcoming Xeon processors will be rolling out a lot of new accelerator IP...

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