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Linux 6.8 To Add Atomic Mode-Setting Mouse Hotspots, Atomic Async Page Flip

Phoronix - Sun, 12/03/2023 - 14:00
The drm-misc-next changes sent out this week to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.8 kernel cycle include a few interesting additions worth mentioning for Linux desktop users...

Gigabyte AORUS Waterforce AIO Coolers Linux Driver Being Developed

Phoronix - Sun, 12/03/2023 - 13:00
Joining the likes of the Aquacomputer and NZXT water/liquid cooling hardware monitoring/control "HWMON" kernel drivers, an Gigabyte AORUS Waterforce AIO Coolers Linux driver is being developed...

Mesa 24.0 PVR Vulkan Driver Adds Support For New PowerVR Kernel Driver

Phoronix - Sun, 12/03/2023 - 02:45
The PVR Vulkan driver being developed within Mesa for modern PowerVR graphics hardware has now landed support for using the upcoming PowerVR DRM kernel driver that is being upstreamed in Linux 6.8...

Bcachefs Lands Another Round Of Fixes For Linux 6.7

Phoronix - Sat, 12/02/2023 - 21:54
On Friday another round of fixes were merged for the Bcachefs file-system for the in-development Linux 6.7 kernel...

Vulkan 1.3.272 Published With Two New Extensions

Phoronix - Sat, 12/02/2023 - 20:01
Vulkan 1.3.272 was published on Friday as the latest routine spec update for this high performance graphics and compute API...

Cloudflare Teases Next-Gen Server Design, Benefits Going From 1U To 2U Servers

Phoronix - Sat, 12/02/2023 - 19:52
Two years ago Cloudflare rolled out their "Gen 11" server fleet built around AMD EPYC Milan processors and on Friday the company began talking about their forthcoming "Gen 12" server designs that will soon be rolling out across their data centers for powering this widely-used web infrastructure...

KDE Lands NVIDIA Hardware Cursor Support & Other Last Minute Plasma 6.0 Features

Phoronix - Sat, 12/02/2023 - 19:16
With this week's release of the Plasma 6.0 beta and beta milestones for KDE Frameworks 6 and the latest Gear apps, KDE has now entered the bug-fixing phase ahead of the stable releases coming up in February. But prior to that bug-fixing shift, a few more features were merged...

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