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Linux 6.3 Features Have A Lot For AMD & Intel, Steam Deck, ASUS Motherboards & More

Phoronix - Sun, 04/23/2023 - 20:51
The Linux 6.3 stable kernel is likely to be released later today so here is a reminder about the most exciting aspects of this spring kernel release...

Libreboot 20230423 Allows A Few More Boards To Run On Fully Open-Source Firmware

Phoronix - Sun, 04/23/2023 - 20:22
Libreboot as the downstream of Coreboot focused on ensuring 100% open-source system firmware support without any lurking binary blobs is out this Sunday with a new feature release...

Improved Linux Power Savings For Intel Haswell/Broadwell Laptops In 2023

Phoronix - Sun, 04/23/2023 - 18:52
It's been just shy of ten years since Intel launched their Haswell processors that were very successful at the time and was followed by Broadwell. While Intel's open-source Linux driver engineers are primarily concentrated on recent and future Intel hardware platforms, occasionally there is an improvement worth mentioning for mature platforms like Haswell and Broadwell. A new patch series this week will help with some minor graphics power-savings for those still running a nearly decade old Intel Linux laptop...

Flashrom Splits Into Two For This Firmware/ROM Flashing Utility

Phoronix - Sun, 04/23/2023 - 18:31
The Flashrom project that serves as an open-source firmware/ROM flashing utility not only for system BIOS/UEFI on motherboards but also capable of flashing firmware for various network / GPU / storage controller cards and other programmable devices has decided to effectively split into two...

Google Continues Working On More Linux HDCP Bits

Phoronix - Sun, 04/23/2023 - 18:20
Google engineers continue working on enhancing the Linux infrastructure around supporting High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) for Chrome OS...

Mesa 23.0.3 Released With Another Batch Of Fixes

Phoronix - Sun, 04/23/2023 - 07:48
Mesa 23.0.3 was released on Friday as the newest stable release for this collection of open-source user-space GPU driver components...

User Mode Linux - Hackaday

Google News - Sun, 04/23/2023 - 01:02
User Mode Linux  Hackaday

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