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AMD IOMMU Improvements & Apple M1 USB4/Thunderbolt DART Submitted For Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Sun, 01/14/2024 - 22:41
All of the Input-Output Memory Management Unit (IOMMU) subsystem updates were sent out this week for the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel...

Limine 7.0 Bootloader Released

Phoronix - Sun, 01/14/2024 - 22:13
Following the recent release of GRUB 2.12, another prominent open-source bootloader project is also out with a new release: Limine 7.0...

Asahi Linux Has Been Making Progress On Apple HDMI, EAS & GPU Features

Phoronix - Sun, 01/14/2024 - 19:40
Following last month's release of Fedora Asahi Remix 39 for the Asahi Linux project's new flagship distribution for running on Apple Silicon hardware, a lengthy blog post was posted this weekend outlining some of the ongoing development efforts for Apple Silicon on Linux and newly-enabled Fedora Asahi capabilities...

The Open-Source Community Is Still Maintaining Flash Player Support In 2024

Phoronix - Sun, 01/14/2024 - 19:21
There seems to be two classes of people when reminiscing over Adobe Flash: those that were fond of Flash-games of the time from many years ago and those that cringe over recalling Flash ads and other content requiring that prior proprietary Macromedia/Adobe tech. For those that have good memories from Adobe Flash, the Ruffle open-source project continues working to this day on an Adobe Flash Player emulator...

The revolution of retail technology - how to deliver the best integrated in-store experience to date

Red Hat News - Sun, 01/14/2024 - 08:00
It’s 2024 and the chaos of holiday shopping is officially behind us. Whether you managed to get all of your gifts ahead of time or you were more of a last minute shopper, I bet there are some notes you’d have for retailers about how to make your shopping experience even smoother. Was the in-store experience chaotic? Did you have the ability to use self-checkout? Was there a buy online and pick up in-store option that actually gave you up-to-date inventory? These are all questions we’re asking ourselves as shoppers, but how are retailers working to make it happen?There are a lot of pieces

Linux 6.8 Merge Window On Hiatus Due To Winter Storm

Phoronix - Sun, 01/14/2024 - 05:57
Linus Torvalds just announced he's had to put the Linux 6.8 merge window on hold due to a brutal winter storm knocking the Pacific Northwest...

Lutris 0.5.15 Fixes Crashes When Using Wayland With High DPI Gaming Mice

Phoronix - Sun, 01/14/2024 - 05:36
Lutris 0.5.15 has been released as the newest version of this open-source game manager that allows managing games from within Steam, GOG, various retro game console / emulator solutions, and other sources...

Git Developers Discuss The Possibility Of Beginning To Use Rust Code

Phoronix - Sat, 01/13/2024 - 23:41
The latest open-source project eyeing the possibility of beginning to allow the Rust programming language to be used within its codebase is the Git project...

KVM With Linux 6.8 Adds Intel LAM For Guests, More Confidential VMs Work

Phoronix - Sat, 01/13/2024 - 23:30
The KVM virtualization changes for the in-development Linux 6.8 kernel is quite heavy on the feature side...

Fedora 40 Looks To Ship AMD ROCm 6 For End-To-End Open-Source GPU Acceleration

Phoronix - Sat, 01/13/2024 - 22:40
Fedora 40 is looking at shipping the AMD ROCm 6.x GPU compute stack to offer "end-to-end open-source GPU acceleration" with ease for this Red Hat funded Linux distribution...

Intel Submits Latest CXL Feature Code For Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Sat, 01/13/2024 - 21:56
Intel engineer Dan Williams continues leading the charge around Compute Express Link (CXL) enablement for the Linux kernel...

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