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Jolla Releases Sailfish OS 5.0 With WireGuard VPN, Updated Android Compatibility

Phoronix - Tue, 02/25/2025 - 01:00
For those intrigued by Jolla's Linux-based Sailfish OS mobile phone operating system, Sailfish OS 5.0 is officially out today as the latest iteration of this software stack...

Intel Announces Xeon 6500P + Xeon 6700P Processors

Phoronix - Tue, 02/25/2025 - 00:00
After launching the Intel Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" processors last September, today Intel is expanding the family with the launch of the Xeon 6500P and Xeon 6700P server processors.

Intel Announces Xeon 6300 Series - Tops Out At 8-Core Xeon 6369P For $545 USD

Phoronix - Tue, 02/25/2025 - 00:00
In addition to announcing the Xeon 6500P and Xeon 6700P processors along with the Xeon 6 SoC (Granite Rapids D), the Xeon 6300 series are also making a quiet debut today. The Xeon 6300 series is in effect the continuation of the Xeon E series but with little change over the existing Xeon E-2400 processors...

Intel Preps New Performance Optimizations & Features For Linux 6.15 Graphics Driver

Phoronix - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 23:14
In addition to AMD beginning to queue graphics driver improvements for Linux 6.15, Intel open-source engineers are doing the same and this morning sent out their initial feature pull request to DRM-Next of the i915/Xe kernel graphics/display driver improvements they have been working on for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel...

MCTP-Over-USB Driver Slated For Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 21:52
A new driver planned to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle is an implementation of MCTP over USB as defined by the DMTF standard DSP0283...

Years In The Making, Intel Timed I/O "TIO" Looks To Finally Land In Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 19:29
Intel Timed I/O "TIO" has been present on Intel processors going back to 2019 and the Linux driver support has been worked on for several years, but finally this year with the upcoming Linux 6.15 cycle is this Intel Timed I/O code expected to be merged...

Linux's libinput Input Library Finally Supports 3-Finger Dragging

Phoronix - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 19:07
Libinput as the open-source input handling library used by the modern Linux desktop both by Wayland compositors and the X.Org Server now has support for three-finger dragging...

Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Now Enables VK_EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64

Phoronix - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 19:00
The newest feature merged this weekend to Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver for Linux systems is support for the VK_EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64 extension...

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