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Linux 6.7-rc3 Released Following A Light Holiday Week

Phoronix - Mon, 11/27/2023 - 16:50
Linus Torvalds released the third weekly release candidate of the forthcoming Linux 6.7 kernel on Sunday night...

PCSX2 Emulator Disables Wayland Support By Default

Phoronix - Mon, 11/27/2023 - 07:49
While more applications continue enabling Wayland support and getting into a shape by default, the PCSX2 open-source PlayStation 2 emulator recently moved in the opposite direction: disabling Wayland support for their distributed builds...

Intel Begins Readying Kernel Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Sun, 11/26/2023 - 22:30
Intel Linux kernel graphics driver developers this week sent out their first batch of drm-intel-next i915 DRM driver changes to DRM-Next of new material to be introduced in the upcoming Linux 6.8 cycle...

Linux Kernel Developers Debate Priority-Based Shutdown Support

Phoronix - Sun, 11/26/2023 - 21:51
A Linux kernel mailing list discussion this holiday weekend that is seeing polarized views on the matter is around a new patch series proposed priority-based shutdown support for drivers/hardware...

Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Overhauls Its Buffer Allocation Code

Phoronix - Sun, 11/26/2023 - 19:40
While much of the modern graphics world these days is focused on the Vulkan API, there's no signs of Intel's open-source graphics driver engineers losing optimization focus with their OpenGL Linux driver by way of the Iris Gallium3D code. Merged this holiday week was a rather significant rework to its buffer object allocation system...

PipeWire 1.0 Released For Managing Audio/Video Steams On The Linux Desktop

Phoronix - Sun, 11/26/2023 - 19:16
It has finally happened: PipeWire 1.0 has been released as this now very common software to the Linux desktop for managing audio and video streams. With time it's proven to be a suitable replacement to the likes of PulseAudio and JACK while pushing forward the Linux desktop with its modern design and feature set...

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