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Open-Source VIA Linux Driver Still Wants To Be Merged, But Pursuing Acceleration First

Phoronix - Sat, 10/08/2022 - 17:57
The OpenChrome DRM driver has been in development for over a decade for providing open-source display driver support for VIA's aging x86 chipsets. For years now OpenChrome development has been down to one developer left on the project, Kevin Brace, and months ago he hoped to get the driver finally merged into the Linux kernel. He still holds out on those ambitions but will first aim to get basic acceleration working with a stable user-space API/ABI before mainlining...

KDE Welcomes Ghostwriter To Its Collection Of Apps

Phoronix - Sat, 10/08/2022 - 17:25
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly development summary concerning all of the progress made to the open-source desktop over the past two weeks. This status update actually covers the past two weeks due to last weekend being preoccupied with the annual KDE Akademy developer conference...

systemd 252-rc1 Introduces New systemd-measure Tool, Other New Features

Phoronix - Sat, 10/08/2022 - 01:10
Systemd 252-rc1 is out as the first test candidate ahead of this next big feature release for this dominant Linux init systemd. Systemd 252 has been working on a new "systemd-measure" tool and a wide variety of other changes...

Fwupd 1.8.6 Released With Smaller Package Size, New Hardware Support

Phoronix - Sat, 10/08/2022 - 00:30
Fwupd 1.8.6 is out today as the newest stable release of this open-source firmware updating tool most notably used by Linux systems but also supported on various BSDs and even Windows...

Intel Preps The Linux Kernel For LKGS - Part Of FRED

Phoronix - Fri, 10/07/2022 - 22:30
Intel on Thursday sent out the initial Linux kernel patches for supporting the LKGS instruction coming with future processors...

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