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More ASUS Motherboard Sensors & Other Hardware Monitoring Improvements For Linux 5.20

Phoronix - Sun, 07/31/2022 - 18:44
Ahead of the Linux 5.19 stable kernel being launched later today, a few pull requests have already begun queuing for the Linux 5.20 merge window. Among those early pulls are the hardware monitoring "HWMON" subsystem updates...

Open-Source VIA DRM/KMS Driver "OpenChrome" Not Ready For Merging Into Linux 5.20

Phoronix - Sun, 07/31/2022 - 18:12
You may recall a month ago the lone developer still working on open-source VIA x86 graphics support for Linux hoped to finally mainline this "OpenChrome" DRM/KMS driver for the Linux 5.20 cycle. Well, Linux 5.19 is being released today and that opens up the Linux 5.20 merge window but still the OpenChrome DRM driver isn't ready to go yet...

Linux Mint 21 Released - Built Atop Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Phoronix - Sun, 07/31/2022 - 17:52
Linux Mint 21 has been officially released as the newest version of this popular desktop Linux distribution built atop Ubuntu...

Linux 5.20 To Support The Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen3, ThinkPad X13s Arm Laptop

Phoronix - Sat, 07/30/2022 - 21:33
Submitted early ahead of tomorrow's Linux 5.19 stable kernel release are the SoC changes destined for the Linux 5.20 merge window. There are more than one thousand SoC patches for Linux 5.20 cycle adding and updating many SoCs and board/platform coverage. One of several notable additions this cycle is introducing the Qualcomm Snapdragon 8cx Gen3 support for high-end Arm laptops...

What is a Chromebook? - Android Police

Google News - Sat, 07/30/2022 - 19:30
What is a Chromebook?  Android Police

Wasmer 3.0 Alpha Released With WASIX Implementation, More Improvements For This WebAssembly Stack

Phoronix - Sat, 07/30/2022 - 18:36
Wasmer's goal is to be "the universal WebAssembly runtime" with aiming to "run any code on any client" and with Wasmer 3.0 they are furthering the potential for this multi-language, multi-platform WASM stack...

ARM64 With Linux 5.20 Improves Its Meltdown Mitigation KPTI Code

Phoronix - Sat, 07/30/2022 - 18:18
The 64-bit Arm (ARM64) architecture updates have already been sent in for Linux 5.20 ahead of the merge window formally opening...

LLVM 15.0-rc1 Brings LoongArch, AmpereOne, AMD RDNA3, AMD GFX940 & HTTP Server

Phoronix - Sat, 07/30/2022 - 17:55
The first release candidate of LLVM 15.0 is now available for testing of this growing open-source compiler stack...

Aquacomputer Quadro Fan Controller Support Coming With Linux 5.20

Phoronix - Sat, 07/30/2022 - 17:20
Introduced last year in Linux 5.15 was the Aquacomputer driver that started off as a hardware monitoring "HWMON" sensor driver supporting Aquacomputer's D5 Next water-cooling pump. In Linux 5.19 that driver was extended to support the Aquacomputer OCTO fan controller under Linux and now for v5.20 it's extended to support the company's QUADRO fan controller...

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