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GNOME Sees Progress On Variable Refresh Rate Setting, Adding Battery Charge Control

Phoronix - Sun, 01/28/2024 - 22:22
There's been some new work pending for further enhancing the GNOME desktop when it comes around Variable Rate Refresh (VRR). Separately, there's new merge requests pending for adding laptop battery charge threshold controls from the GNOME UI...

TuxClocker 1.5 Released With Radeon RX 7000 Series Fan Control Support

Phoronix - Sun, 01/28/2024 - 21:55
TuxClocker as the open-source, hardware/driver vendor independent overclocking and power management control utility for Linux systems is out with a new feature release. This Qt-based utility for enthusiasts continues adding new controls primarily around greater power/performance tunables for CPUs and GPUs...

Niri Debuts As A Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Inspired By PaperWM

Phoronix - Sun, 01/28/2024 - 04:27
The newest Wayland compositor on the scene with its first stable release is Niri, a scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor inspired by the PaperWM GNOME Shell extesnsion...

Arch-Based Endeavour OS Updates ISO With Linux 6.7 Kernel, Mesa 23.3.3

Phoronix - Sat, 01/27/2024 - 21:56
Endeavour OS as the popular desktop rolling-release Linux distribution built upon Arch Linux has published updated ISOs that bundle in the stable Linux 6.7 kernel as well as other package updates...

Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Will Aim To Ship With The Linux 6.8 Kernel

Phoronix - Sat, 01/27/2024 - 19:51
As some terrific news, Canonical laid out their kernel plans for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS and they are being ambitious with plans to ship the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel as their default kernel on this next long-term support Ubuntu desktop/server distribution...

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