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Debian 12.0 Released - Powered By Linux 6.1 LTS, Easier Non-Free Firmware Handling

Phoronix - Sat, 06/10/2023 - 20:00
Following more than one and a half years in development, Debian 12 is officially shipping today as the latest major release for this long-maintained Linux distribution...

NVIDIA SHIELD Controller Driver Coming With Linux 6.5

Phoronix - Sat, 06/10/2023 - 18:18
Five years after NVIDIA launched their SHIELD "Thunderstrike" gaming controller, they've recently been working on upstreaming support for this controller -- and other possible NVIDIA Shield peripherals -- via a new Linux kernel driver. This new driver is now set to be merged for Linux 6.5...

KDE Plasma 6 X11 Session "Barely Buggier" Than Plasma 5 On X11

Phoronix - Sat, 06/10/2023 - 18:07
Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his latest weekly development summary to highlight all of the work on Plasma 5 fixes and then the ongoing feature work in the march toward Plasma 6.0...

Wine 8.10 Released With Mouse Cursor Clipping Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 06/10/2023 - 07:00
Wine 8.10 is out this weekend as the newest version of this open-source software allowing Windows applications and games to run gracefully on Linux, Chrome OS, macOS, and other platforms...

Linux 6.5 To Add HuC Loading Support For Intel Meteor Lake

Phoronix - Sat, 06/10/2023 - 03:24
In addition to the drm-intel-next pull earlier this week that brought more Meteor Lake graphics on Linux and VRR eDP support among other changes set for Linux 6.5, on Thursday a new batch of drm-intel-gt-next code was submitted to DRM-Next ahead of this next kernel cycle...

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