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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...

Intel Arc Graphics A580 / A750 / A770 Linux Performance For Early 2024

Phoronix - Sat, 02/03/2024 - 02:00
Earlier this week I posted a 35-way Linux graphics card comparison featuring the new NVIDIA RTX 40 SUPER graphics cards and other recent AMD and NVIDIA hardware I had available while using the latest Linux drivers. Intel Arc Graphics desktop graphics cards weren't part of that comparison for simply running out of time prior to the RTX 4080 SUPER embargo lift to facilitate that re-testing. But for those interested, here is a fresh look at the Intel Arc Graphics A580 / A750 / A770 Linux performance against those NVIDIA GeForce and AMD Radeon graphics cards on Ubuntu Linux.

Debian 64-bit time_t Transition Underway For Addressing Y2038 Problem On 32-bit Systems

Phoronix - Sat, 02/03/2024 - 01:33
Debian Experimental has begun its package rebuilds for its 64-bit time_t transition for ensuring 32-bit architectures running Debian Trixie will be able to operate past the Year 2038...

Redox OS Porting More Linux Software Over, Including COSMIC Apps

Phoronix - Fri, 02/02/2024 - 23:04
The Rust-based Redox OS open-source project has published a new blog post outlining some of their recent accomplishments as well as a look ahead to other technical adventures planned for this year...

Intel Open Image Denoise Rolls Out Metal Support, Expanded AArch64 Support

Phoronix - Fri, 02/02/2024 - 22:47
Intel's open-source oneAPI components continue to not only embrace Intel's diverse range of CPUs / GPUs / accelerators but continues to better support competing platforms too. Today's Open Image Denoise release candidate brings more for Apple hardware, AArch64 processors, and NVIDIA CUDA...

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