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Qualcomm Hardware Support Increasingly In Good Shape On The Mainline Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sat, 02/10/2024 - 20:00
After years of work by Qualcomm and Linaro engineers, the Qualcomm SoC support on the mainline Linux kernel has finally matured enough that new hardware support tends to come rather quickly and be well supported. With the forthcoming Linux 6.8 kernel the new Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 can boot on the mainline kernel, the Snapdragon-powered ThinkPad X13s has been popular with Linux developers thanks to the upstream support, and other Qualcomm-powered devices tending to play more nicely with upstream Linux these days rather than having to resort to vendor kernel builds...

Xfce 4.20 Aiming For Usable Wayland Support While Maintaining X11 Compatibility

Phoronix - Sat, 02/10/2024 - 19:36
Xfce developers have updated their Wayland roadmap this week to reflect their latest plans around the Xfce 4.20 release...

Variable Refresh Rate "VRR" Support Comes Down To The Wire For GNOME 46

Phoronix - Sat, 02/10/2024 - 19:07
Today marks the UI, feature, and API/ABI freezes for the GNOME 46 desktop ahead of its stable release on 16 March. One feature coming down to the wire that looks like it may not make it -- unfortunately -- is the Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) integration...

Three Weeks To Go Until The KDE Plasma 6.0 Release

Phoronix - Sat, 02/10/2024 - 18:36
There is just under three weeks to go until the much anticipated KDE Plasma 6 debut...

LLVM Adds Support For New "Ampere1B" Third-Gen Cores From Ampere Computing

Phoronix - Sat, 02/10/2024 - 09:11
While we are still waiting to get our hands on AmpereOne hardware for Ampere Computing's in-house design Arm cores with up to 192 cores, Friday night Git activity to LLVM has revealed an "Ampere1B" core...

helloSystem Publishes New Experimental Build Based On FreeBSD 14.0

Phoronix - Sat, 02/10/2024 - 08:10
The macOS-inspired, FreeBSD-based helloSystem open-source operating system has published a new experimental build based on the fresh FreeBSD 14.0...

Wine 9.2 Released With System Tray Fixes, Better ARM Exception Handling

Phoronix - Sat, 02/10/2024 - 06:53
Wine 9.2 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release of this software for enjoying Windows applications and games on Linux and other platforms...

Targeted Intel oneAPI DPC++ Compiler Optimization Rules Out 2k+ SPEC CPU Submissions

Phoronix - Sat, 02/10/2024 - 06:45
SPEC has effectively invalidated more than two thousand SPEC CPU 2017 benchmark submissions after it was discovered the Intel oneAPI DPC++ compiler was effectively "cheating" per their standards with a targeted optimization...

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