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Wayland's Weston 12.0 Released With Multi-GPU Support, PipeWire Backend, Tearing Control

Phoronix - Thu, 05/18/2023 - 03:55
Weston 12.0 as Wayland's reference compositor is now available with multiple GPU support in the DRM back-end, support for HDMI content types, support for the Wayland tearing control protocol, plane alpha DRM property handling, a PipeWire back-end, and much more...

System76 Pangolin Makes For A Nice All-AMD Linux Laptop

Phoronix - Wed, 05/17/2023 - 23:05
I spent the past few weeks testing the latest System76 Pangolin laptop that has been working out well as an all-AMD 15-inch laptop running the company's increasingly-popular Pop!_OS Linux distribution.

OpenBMC 2.14 Apparently Released

Phoronix - Wed, 05/17/2023 - 21:13
The OpenBMC Linux Foundation collaborative project providing an open-source operating system / firmware stack for server baseboard management controllers (BMCs) is out with version 2.14. The OpenBMC release management still seems to be in a bit of disarray with OpenBMC 2.13 also having been released yesterday, but at least the code continues moving along...

OnLogic Taps Intel Raptor Lake For 1U Axial AC101 Edge Server

Phoronix - Wed, 05/17/2023 - 20:40
The folks at OnLogic have released the Axial AC101 as a new edge server offering that is powered by Intel Core 13th Gen "Raptor Lake" processors and this BMC-enabled, shallow-depth server can accommodate up to 150 Watt PCI Express expansion cards in aiming to make this compact edge server ideal for machine learning, AI, and other IoT use-cases...

Ubuntu Knocks On Docker In Latest Snaps Promotion

Phoronix - Wed, 05/17/2023 - 20:19
While for an Ubuntu desktop user that is used to running Snap versions of Firefox and other desktop application sandboxing it may seem strange for Canonical to be comparing Snaps to Docker containers, the emphasis of their comparison is on the IoT/edge computing side where they are trying to better position Snaps as a superior alternative to using Docker containers...

PipeWire 0.3.71 Released With Performance Improvements, Zero Latency JACK D-Bus Bridge

Phoronix - Wed, 05/17/2023 - 18:48
PipeWire 0.3.71 is out today as the newest update to this now widely-used open-source solution for managing Linux audio and video streams and serving as a viable replacement to the likes of PulseAudio and JACK for audio needs on the Linux desktop...

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