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ASUS ROG RYUJIN II 360 AIO Cooler Gets A Linux Driver

Phoronix - Sat, 02/03/2024 - 21:49
The latest all-in-one liquid cooler receiving a Linux driver to monitor pump speeds and coolant temperatures as well as managing radiator fan speeds under Linux is the ASUS ROG RYUJIN II 360...

Intel Thread Director Virtualization Patches Boost Some Workloads By ~14%

Phoronix - Sat, 02/03/2024 - 19:30
Intel's hybrid core handling for modern Intel Core CPUs with a mix of P and E cores has largely been in good shape under Linux for a while. Intel Thread Director support has come along with various Linux kernel improvements to better handle task placement between the P and E cores. One area seeing new work now though is for virtual machines (VMs) running on Intel hybrid systems with a new Linux kernel patch series working on Thread Director Virtualization...

Niri 0.1.1 Wayland Compositor Adds Support For Taskbars, Output Rotation & More

Phoronix - Sat, 02/03/2024 - 19:10
In case you missed it debuting last week was Niri v0.1 as a new, scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor inspired by the GNOME extension PaperWM. Out today is a follow-on release with more fixes and a few additional features for this new Wayland compositor...

KDE Plasma 6.0 Getting More Fixes & UI Refinements Ahead Of Release This Month

Phoronix - Sat, 02/03/2024 - 18:54
KDE Plasma 6.0 is due to be released at the end of this month! KDE Megarelease 6 RC2 released this week in facilitating more testing ahead of this big KDE desktop milestone and there's been no let-up in the amount of bug fixes and last minute work being prepped for this milestone...

Initial Support For The Lenovo Legion Go Controllers Added To Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Sat, 02/03/2024 - 05:45
Being merged today as part of the input subsystem "fixes" for the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel is supporting the controllers of the Lenovo Legion Go handheld game console...

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