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Wayland's Weston 12.0 Released With Multi-GPU Support, PipeWire Backend, Tearing Control

Phoronix - Thu, 05/18/2023 - 03:55
Weston 12.0 as Wayland's reference compositor is now available with multiple GPU support in the DRM back-end, support for HDMI content types, support for the Wayland tearing control protocol, plane alpha DRM property handling, a PipeWire back-end, and much more...

System76 Pangolin Makes For A Nice All-AMD Linux Laptop

Phoronix - Wed, 05/17/2023 - 23:05
I spent the past few weeks testing the latest System76 Pangolin laptop that has been working out well as an all-AMD 15-inch laptop running the company's increasingly-popular Pop!_OS Linux distribution.

OpenBMC 2.14 Apparently Released

Phoronix - Wed, 05/17/2023 - 21:13
The OpenBMC Linux Foundation collaborative project providing an open-source operating system / firmware stack for server baseboard management controllers (BMCs) is out with version 2.14. The OpenBMC release management still seems to be in a bit of disarray with OpenBMC 2.13 also having been released yesterday, but at least the code continues moving along...

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