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Haiku R1 Beta 4 Released With Improved HiDPI, WiFi Updates, Wayland Compatibility Layer

Phoronix - Sat, 12/24/2022 - 03:30
It was back in July 2021 that Haiku R1 Beta 3 was released for this spiritual successor to the BeOS operating system. Now before Christmas and closing out 2022, Haiku R1 Beta 4 has been released as the latest major milestone for this open-source operating system effort...

Meson 1.0 Build System Released

Phoronix - Sat, 12/24/2022 - 02:00
As a timely gift to programmers using the speedy and very successful Meson build system, the Meson 1.0 stable release has debuted just in time for Christmas...

AMD Improving The Linux Experience When Running New GPUs Without Proper Driver Support

Phoronix - Sat, 12/24/2022 - 01:00
While AMD provided upstream open-source driver support for the Radeon RX 7900 series launch, the initial user experience can be less than desirable if running a new Radeon GPU but initially running an out-of-date kernel or lacking the necessary firmware support. With a new patch series posted AMD is looking to improve the experience by being able to more easily fallback to the firmware frame-buffer when their AMDGPU kernel graphics driver fails to properly load...

Fedora 38 Wants To Make Sure Shutdowns & Reboots Are Faster

Phoronix - Fri, 12/23/2022 - 19:05
A change proposal to be evaluated still by FESCo would help ensure that system shutdowns and reboots can happen faster on Fedora Linux...

Rust-GPU 0.4 Released To Provide "First Class" GPU Graphics & Compute Shaders With Rust

Phoronix - Fri, 12/23/2022 - 18:50
Embark Studios has released a new version of Rust-GPU that has a goal of making Rust a first-class programming language and ecosystem for GPU shader development...

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