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KDE Reduces CPU Usage On Wayland When Moving The Pointer & Other Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 01/13/2024 - 19:52
After a few weeks hiatus due to the holidays, KDE developer Nate Graham is back in the saddle with his weekly development reports around KDE...

Wine 9.0-rc5 Released With 22 Fixes From Game Crashes To Performance Issues

Phoronix - Sat, 01/13/2024 - 05:53
The fifth release candidate of Wine 9.0 is now available for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux, Chrome OS, and other platforms...

PulseAudio 17.0 Released With A Few New Features

Phoronix - Sat, 01/13/2024 - 04:18
While most modern desktop Linux distributions have migrated over to PipeWire for the roles once handled by PulseAudio (and JACK, among others), for those still relying on the PulseAudio sound server the PulseAudio 17.0 release was made available today...

Linus Torvalds On Linux 6.8 DRM: "Testing Is Seriously Lacking"

Phoronix - Sat, 01/13/2024 - 03:47
While the Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display driver updates for Linux 6.8 excitingly include the new Intel "Xe" DRM and PowerVR Imagination drivers, AMD color management properties in experimental form, Raspberry Pi 5 graphics support, and more, Linus Torvalds isn't happy with some of the new Intel Xe driver code...

Linux Gains An Open File Server Implementation For Tractors & Agriculture Machinery

Phoronix - Sat, 01/13/2024 - 00:00
Pengutronix a short time ago on the Linux kernel mailing list announced the Open ISOBUS FileServer (FS) and Client Implementation... Piquing my interest, I looked up this ISO 11783-13 standard that this file server aims to implement, but it wasn't quite what I was expecting...

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