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Debian 12.0 Released - Powered By Linux 6.1 LTS, Easier Non-Free Firmware Handling

Phoronix - Sat, 06/10/2023 - 20:00
Following more than one and a half years in development, Debian 12 is officially shipping today as the latest major release for this long-maintained Linux distribution...

NVIDIA SHIELD Controller Driver Coming With Linux 6.5

Phoronix - Sat, 06/10/2023 - 18:18
Five years after NVIDIA launched their SHIELD "Thunderstrike" gaming controller, they've recently been working on upstreaming support for this controller -- and other possible NVIDIA Shield peripherals -- via a new Linux kernel driver. This new driver is now set to be merged for Linux 6.5...

KDE Plasma 6 X11 Session "Barely Buggier" Than Plasma 5 On X11

Phoronix - Sat, 06/10/2023 - 18:07
Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his latest weekly development summary to highlight all of the work on Plasma 5 fixes and then the ongoing feature work in the march toward Plasma 6.0...

Wine 8.10 Released With Mouse Cursor Clipping Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 06/10/2023 - 07:00
Wine 8.10 is out this weekend as the newest version of this open-source software allowing Windows applications and games to run gracefully on Linux, Chrome OS, macOS, and other platforms...

Linux 6.5 To Add HuC Loading Support For Intel Meteor Lake

Phoronix - Sat, 06/10/2023 - 03:24
In addition to the drm-intel-next pull earlier this week that brought more Meteor Lake graphics on Linux and VRR eDP support among other changes set for Linux 6.5, on Thursday a new batch of drm-intel-gt-next code was submitted to DRM-Next ahead of this next kernel cycle...

Intel Updates Cluster Scheduling Linux Patches For Hybrid CPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 06/10/2023 - 00:36
Intel engineers have been working on new cluster scheduling code for the Linux kernel to better help with process scheduling for their modern hybrid processors. An updated version of these patches have now been posted for attempting to help with the Linux performance of Alder Lake CPUs and newer...

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