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Imagination PowerVR Open-Source GPU Driver To Be Introduced In Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Thu, 11/23/2023 - 23:11
It's been well over a decade since many were wanting open-source Imagination PowerVR graphics when their graphics IP was more common among SoCs, but with the Linux 6.8 kernel in early 2024 there will finally be an upstream, open-source PowerVR DRM kernel graphics driver! But before getting your hopes too high, this is the effort that's only around the newer PowerVR graphics and not the prior generation hardware from many years ago...

OpenSSL 3.2 Released With Client-Side QUIC, SSL/TLS Security Level 2 Default

Phoronix - Thu, 11/23/2023 - 22:05
OpenSSL 3.2 was released this morning as the latest major update to this widely-used cryptography and SSL/TLS project...

LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha 1 Brings Many New Features

Phoronix - Thu, 11/23/2023 - 21:46
LibreOffice 24.2 Alpha 1 was just tagged in Git as the first development snapshot toward this next major release of this open-source office software...

Qt Creator 12 Released With Godbolt Compiler Explorer Integration

Phoronix - Thu, 11/23/2023 - 21:33
The Qt Company today released Qt Creator 12 as the latest major update to this C++ and Qt focused integrated development environment. Most significant with Qt Creator 12 is integrating the Compiler Explorer while there are also many smaller changes for this Qt/C++ optimized IDE...

Archinstall 2.7 Brings Unified Kernel Image Support To The Arch Linux Installer

Phoronix - Thu, 11/23/2023 - 20:02
The very convenient Archinstall for quickly deploying new Arch Linux installations with some level of defaults and making it effortless to setup an Arch Linux desktop is out with a new release...

System76 Stuffing More Features Into COSMIC Desktop Ahead Of The Holidays

Phoronix - Thu, 11/23/2023 - 19:46
The crew at System76 published a US Thanksgiving themed status update to their work on the open-source, Rust-written COSMIC desktop environment that will soon be powering their in-house Pop!_OS Linux distribution...

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