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AMD Graphics Driver Gets "More New Stuff" For Linux 6.9: Continued RDNA4 Enablement

Phoronix - Tue, 02/20/2024 - 06:09
Following the initial AMDGPU driver updates targeting Linux 6.9 that were submitted to DRM-Next one week ago, another batch of AMDGPU feature updates were sent out today ahead of this next kernel cycle kicking off in March...

Miracle-WM Announced As A Wayland Compositor Built On Mir

Phoronix - Mon, 02/19/2024 - 22:32
Canonical engineer Matthew Kosarek announced the first-ever release of Miracle-WM as a Wayland compositor built on top of Mir...

Intel Lunar Lake "Xe2" Graphics Firmware Upstreamed For Xe Linux Driver

Phoronix - Mon, 02/19/2024 - 22:17
Intel is upstreaming the necessary Lunar Lake "LNL" graphics firmware nice and early to linux-firmware.git for their "Xe2" integrated graphics...

Mozilla Firefox 123.0 Available With Improved Translation Support, New Developer Features

Phoronix - Mon, 02/19/2024 - 22:03
Firefox 123.0 binaries are available today ahead of the official announcement tomorrow for this newest monthly web browser update...

Linux Still Working To Disable RNDIS Drivers In 2024

Phoronix - Mon, 02/19/2024 - 19:35
Back in January 2023 was an attempt to disable kernel drivers for Microsoft's RNDIS protocol. The Remote Network Driver Interface Specification (RNDIS) is home to security concerns for this protocol built atop USB for virtual Ethernet functionality. Later in the year the effort to disable RNDIS on Linux was tried again without going mainline. In recent days it looks like there will be a fresh attempt at getting the RNDIS driver support disabled...

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