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NVIDIA Linux Engineer Highlights The Need For Unifying DRM Driver-Side API

Phoronix - Sun, 11/16/2025 - 19:37
One of the NVIDIA presentations at the recent XDC2025 developer conference was not around the NVIDIA driver itself but the ongoing fragmentation that's happening within the Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem and arguing the need for unifying more driver-side APIs for supporting different Linux DRM clinets...

GCC Developer Discovers "Our Codebase Isn't Fully C++20 Ready"

Phoronix - Sun, 11/16/2025 - 19:25
Following the recent idea floated to consider C++20 as the default C++ language dialect by the GCC compiler rather than C++17, it was discovered that the GNU Compiler Collection itself has problems building in C++20 model...

PureAudio Lotus DAC5 & Other PureAudio Hardware Supported For Linux 6.18

Phoronix - Sun, 11/16/2025 - 19:05
As part of this week's sound subsystem fixes ahead of today's Linux 6.18-rc6 kernel release is adding some quirks for supporting the PureAudio Lotus DAC5 and other PureAudio audio hardware...

Servo 0.0.2 Released For Those Wanting To Try Out This Example Rust Web Browser

Phoronix - Sun, 11/16/2025 - 04:28
Released minutes ago was the Servo 0.0.2 web browser engine update. Along with this new Rust-based web engine release is also the "servoshell" in tow for the example implementation built around this open-source codebase...

GNOME's Nautilus File Manager Finally Supporting Ctrl+Insert & Shift+Insert

Phoronix - Sat, 11/15/2025 - 22:30
GNOME's Nautilus file manager is finally matching the behavior of other file managers like KDE's Dolphin and Xfce's Thunar with a keyboard shortcut for copying and pasting files...

Debian 13.2 Released With Dozens Of Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 11/15/2025 - 21:32
Debian 13.2 is out today as the latest maintenance update to this current stable version of Debian GNU/Linux...

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