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Systemd 251-rc2 Released With More Features

Phoronix - Fri, 05/06/2022 - 03:00
Just over one month after systemd 251-rc1 was released, a second release candidate to this next systemd installment is now available for testing. Systemd 251-rc2 brings yet more features to this Linux init system and service manager...

Fedora Linux 36 Being Released Next Week

Phoronix - Fri, 05/06/2022 - 02:00
After being delayed a few weeks from their original release target, Fedora 36 is now primed for release next week Tuesday...

Mesa's "Rusticl" Implementation Now Manages To Handle Darktable OpenCL

Phoronix - Fri, 05/06/2022 - 00:00
Rusticl as what started out as a Rust language experiment for Mesa and has now matured into a working OpenCL 3.0 implementation for Mesa drivers is still making progress and on a path towards eventually being mainlined...

AMD Begins Working On "GFX11" Support For Open-Source Mesa Linux Graphics (RDNA3)

Phoronix - Thu, 05/05/2022 - 20:33
Following AMD's recent AMDGPU Linux kernel patches for the "GFX11" graphics block to be found with next-gen RDNA3 GPUs, AMD has now submitted the initial Mesa-side patches for GFX11/RDNA3 with a focus on their RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

Intel Has A Solution For Hot Linux Laptops Draining The Battery While Trying To Sleep

Phoronix - Thu, 05/05/2022 - 20:00
For those with Intel laptop models that are quick to run hot and happen to find your laptop battery quickly being drained even when it should be in a deep sleep state, a solution is in the works for the Linux kernel that ultimately stems from S0ix failing due to the PCH overheating...

VMware's SVGA Gallium3D Driver Getting NIR'ed

Phoronix - Thu, 05/05/2022 - 19:10
Following the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" driver switching to NIR by default, the VMware SVGA Gallium3D driver has also landed NIR-to-TGSI support in mainline...

Google Working On Linux Encrypted Hibernation Support

Phoronix - Thu, 05/05/2022 - 18:17
Google engineers are working on encrypted hibernation support for the Linux kernel as part of offering strong hibernation support for Google Chromebook usage...

Alchemist/DG2 Compute, Tigerlake+ Security Fix Head To Intel's Linux 5.19 Graphics Code

Phoronix - Thu, 05/05/2022 - 17:53
We are nearing the cut-off for new feature code to land in the DRM-Next display/graphics drivers for Linux 5.19 while this morning Intel engineers sent in a final drm-intel-gt-next feature update ahead of this next kernel...

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