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Red Hat EMEA Digital Leaders Awards 2021: And the regional winners are...

Red Hat News - Wed, 02/02/2022 - 13:00

In our previous post we shared the names of the winners of Red Hat EMEA Digital Leaders Awards across three categories: Open Transformation, Cloud Native, and Hybrid Cloud.

Wayland's Weston 10.0 Compositor Released With DMA-BUF Feedback, Libseat Support

Phoronix - Wed, 02/02/2022 - 07:25
Weston 10.0 has been released as the newest feature update to Wayland's reference compositor that often works as a proving grounds and compositor showcasing shiny new features for Wayland...

Google Chrome 98 Released With COLRv1 For Smaller Emoji Files

Phoronix - Wed, 02/02/2022 - 05:00
Chrome 98 is available today as Google's second web browser update of the new year. The Chrome 98 changes are mostly on the developer-side but with some user-impacting differences...

Linux 5.16.5 Released To Fix Up Btrfs' Botched Up Defragging

Phoronix - Wed, 02/02/2022 - 02:57
Linux 5.16.5 is out today and making it a notable point release is it fixed up the rather botched state of the Btrfs file-system code for the v5.16 kernel...

System76 Announces "Kudu" AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX Powered Laptop

Phoronix - Wed, 02/02/2022 - 01:00
System76 is today announcing their latest AMD laptop in the form of the Kudu with an AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX processor and up to 64GB of RAM...

Intel Patches To Make It Easier To Run Their Discrete Graphics On Arm, Other Architectures

Phoronix - Tue, 02/01/2022 - 22:27
A change currently being evaluated for Intel's "i915" Linux kernel graphics driver would make it easier for building driver support for their forthcoming discrete graphics products for targeting other non-x86 CPU architectures like Arm..

NVIDIA 510.47.03 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan 1.3 Support, RTX 3050 Compatibility

Phoronix - Tue, 02/01/2022 - 22:15
While it was just yesterday NVIDIA released the 470.103.01 Linux driver, today they have made public the 510.47.03 Linux driver as their first stable version in the NVIDIA 510 Linux driver series...

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