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With the pending changes set to be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.7 kernel, all known issues/limitations around the i915 kernel driver support for upcoming integrated graphics with Intel Meteor Lake laptop processors...

During XDC 2023 this week in Spain, Faith Ekstrand with Collabora provided a status update on the NVK Vulkan driver that continues to be developed inside Mesa for providing open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver support...

ONLYOFFICE 7.5 Released with New PDF Editor + More  OMG! Ubuntu!

In addition to AMD announcing the Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series / Threadripper PRO 7000 WX-Series, AMD also used today for announcing the Radeon RX 7900M for what they are calling their fastest Radeon laptop graphics ever developer...

"Så enkelt installerer du Linux"  ITavisen

AMD today announced the Ryzen Threadripper PRO 7000 WX Series as the company's long-awaited Threadripper update that brings up to 96 Zen 4 cores, RDIMM memory is now required for Threadripper platforms moving forward, and catering to both HEDT enthusiasts and professionals. Here is an initial overview of the new AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series while the benchmark/review embargo isn't being lifted until a later date.

AdaptiveCpp 23.10 has been released for this open-source project formerly known as hipSYCL and OpenSYCL for aiming to provide an open-source project around SYCL and C++ standard parallelism that can target all major CPU and GPU platforms...

AdaptiveCpp 23.10 Alpha Released For What Was hipSYCL ...  Phoronix

Humble Bundle has a load of simulators ready in this bundle  GamingOnLinux

Planetary Annihilation devs reveal Industrial Annihilation ...  GamingOnLinux

One month from today the GCC 14 feature development is expected to end as the GNU compiler developers transition to the bug-fixing stage...

GCC 14 Feature Development Ends Next Month  Phoronix

Relaxing minimalist building strategy game Tiny Atolls fixed up for ...  GamingOnLinux

Chilly survival-adventure Kona II: Brume is out now  GamingOnLinux

Chilly survival-adventure Kona II: Brume is out now  GamingOnLinux

Chilly survival-adventure Kona II: Brume is out now  GamingOnLinux

In addition to Igalia working with Valve on AMD color management / HDR, Igalia engineers have also been working on the open-source Raspberry Pi kernel and Mesa drivers for the Raspberry Pi Foundation. This work includes the timely enablement of the new Raspberry Pi 5 hardware support...

Igalia Has Been Doing A Great Job On The Raspberry Pi Graphics ...  Phoronix

Just as IBM was posting "future" processor compiler patches in 2019 for what ended up being early POWER10 enablement, they are once again repeating their same compiler enablement technique with sending out "PowerPC future" patches for what is likely to be POWER11...

IBM Begins Posting "PowerPC Future" Compiler Patches For What Is ...  Phoronix