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ASRock Launches AI QuickSet Software For Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 12/22/2023 - 19:30
Here's a pleasant Christmas present and one I certainly wasn't expecting... Motherboard manufacturer ASRock has announced software for Linux! Well, not any motherboard management/configuration software for their desktop motherboards or anything like that but rather a Linux port of their AI QuickSet software that is intended to help users "experience AI in one click."..

TUXEDO Computers Updates Its Linux Control Center Software

Phoronix - Fri, 12/22/2023 - 19:18
Bavarian Linux PC vendor TUXEDO Computers has announced TUXEDO Control Center 2.1 as their newest update to this software for managing your notebook's vitals from the Linux desktop...

Linux 6.8 To Add Intel Idle Driver Support For Sierra Forest & Grand Ridge

Phoronix - Fri, 12/22/2023 - 19:09
The latest bits of future Intel CPU hardware support being queued for the mainline kernel is adding Intel Idle driver support for the upcoming Sierra Forest and Grand Ridge processors...

Plymouth Boot Splash Screen Sees First Update In Nearly Two Years

Phoronix - Fri, 12/22/2023 - 19:02
One of the often overlooked pieces of the Linux desktop software stack is Plymouth that for the past 15 years or so has been providing a graphical boot splash screen that succeeded Red Hat's former RHGB software or having no graphical boot splash screen at all on some Linux distributions. This week marked the first new release of Plymouth in nearly two years...

Intel Fixes Up Baldur's Gate 3 On Linux With Arc Graphics

Phoronix - Fri, 12/22/2023 - 18:50
For those with Intel Arc Graphics on Linux and wanting to enjoy the game Baldur's Gate 3 thanks to the power of Valve's Steam Play software, an important fix has been merged to Mesa 24.0-devel and set for back-porting to Mesa 23.3. This should take care of rendering issues being reported for Baldur's Gate 3 with Intel graphics on Linux when using the Vulkan renderer...

Linux 6.7 Won't Be Out For New Year's Eve

Phoronix - Fri, 12/22/2023 - 09:13
If you were hoping to spend your New Year's Eve compiling a freshly-minted Linux 6.7 stable kernel, you'll need to draft new plans as Linux 6.7 stable won't be released until the following week...

Linux 6.8 To Add Support For Several Cheap ARM-Powered Handheld Game Consoles

Phoronix - Fri, 12/22/2023 - 05:30
The upcoming Linux 6.8 kernel cycle will be adding mainline support for several low-cost ARM Linux handheld gaming consoles that are suitable for running retro games, older game emulators, and other lightweight software...

PostgreSQL Lands Support For Incremental Backups

Phoronix - Fri, 12/22/2023 - 04:36
Merged yesterday to the Git code for the PostgreSQL database server is support for facilitating incremental backups...

Godot 4.3 Dev 1 Released With Rendering System Refactor, D3D12

Phoronix - Fri, 12/22/2023 - 02:18
Ahead of the holidays the open-source developers working on the Godot game engine have released Godot 4.3 Dev 1 as their first test release to this next feature release...

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