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Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 Will Be Able To Boot On The Mainline Linux 6.8 Kernel

Phoronix - Mon, 12/18/2023 - 19:46
All the pieces have been aligned that the mainline Linux 6.8 kernel should be able to boot on the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 SoC without any out-of-tree patches being necessary...

Intel Lunar Lake Thunderbolt Support Being Prepped For Linux

Phoronix - Mon, 12/18/2023 - 19:33
While Intel Meteor Lake processors only launched last week, Intel Linux engineers have already been busy for some time enabling next-generation Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake processors...

Gigabyte Waterforce AIO Cooler Driver Set To Premiere In Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Mon, 12/18/2023 - 19:20
A new driver set to be merged in the upcoming Linux 6.8 cycle is "gigabyte_waterforce" as a new kernel driver for supporting Gigabyte AORUS Waterforce AIO coolers...

RADV Vulkan Video Encoding Still Being Worked On

Phoronix - Mon, 12/18/2023 - 19:11
For Mesa 23.1 earlier this year initial RADV Vulkan Video decode support was merged for supporting GPU-based video acceleration with this Khronos video API. As we approach the end of the year, RADV's Vulkan Video encode support remains a work-in-progress but hopefully won't be too much longer before being upstreamed...

It's Looking Like 2024 Could Be The Year Of HDR On The Linux Desktop

Phoronix - Mon, 12/18/2023 - 18:59
KDE developer Xaver Hugl has shared a status update on the current state of HDR support for the KDE Plasma desktop...

How to Install Proxmox (Server Virtualization) on Debian 12

Tecmint - Mon, 12/18/2023 - 13:23
The post How to Install Proxmox (Server Virtualization) on Debian 12 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Proxmox Virtual Environment is a robust and open-source virtualization platform based on Debian GNU/Linux that ships with a custom kernel and encapsulates KVM virtualization and

The post How to Install Proxmox (Server Virtualization) on Debian 12 first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Linux 6.7-rc6 Released: "Various Random Fixes All Over"

Phoronix - Mon, 12/18/2023 - 08:10
Linux 6.7-rc6 was released today while the final release of Linux 6.7 is likely to come New Year's weekend and complicating the opening of the Linux 6.8 merge window around the end-of-year holidays...

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