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Intel Wildcat Lake HID Support & Dell + ASUS Additions Ahead Of Linux 6.16-rc5

Phoronix - Sat, 07/05/2025 - 18:41
Ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc5 kernel expected to be released tomorrow, a round of x86 platform driver updates were merged this week with several fixes as well as some new device additions...

GNOME's Glycin Continues Being Built Out, Papers Ready For Document Viewing

Phoronix - Sat, 07/05/2025 - 18:27
It was another exciting week in the GNOME space to kick off July...

KDE Working On New Virtual Keyboard, Many Plasma Improvements Kick Off July

Phoronix - Sat, 07/05/2025 - 18:13
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly summary to highlight all of the interesting Plasma desktop developments for the past week...

Coreboot 25.06 Released With Xeon Emerald Rapids Support, Better Panther Lake

Phoronix - Sat, 07/05/2025 - 08:18
Building off Coreboot 25.03 is now the availability of Coreboot 25.06 for further enhancing this open-source system firmware project that continues to see new hardware improvements -- predominantly for Google Chromebook devices but also more Intel platforms and other hardware -- as well as new capabilities to further rival proprietary BIOS solutions...

Vulkan 1.4.321 Released With A Handful Of New Extensions

Phoronix - Sat, 07/05/2025 - 07:15
The Vulkan working group is celebrating the US Independence Day with graphics API independence in today publishing Vulkan 1.4.321 that comes with several new extensions...

Bcachefs Fixes Merged For Linux 6.16-rc5

Phoronix - Sat, 07/05/2025 - 02:07
A handful of Bcachefs file-system fixes were submitted yesterday to Linus Torvalds for merging ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc5 release due out on Sunday. Today they were merged...

Rust-Written Redox OS Continues Making Progress With Wayland

Phoronix - Fri, 07/04/2025 - 23:00
The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system project just published their June 2025 status report to outline recent progress on this innovative platform...

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