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Intel Sends In More Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 5.20

Phoronix - Sat, 07/09/2022 - 18:21
Intel this week submitted to DRM-Next what it anticipates to be the last batch of "drm-intel-next" feature changes for the upcoming Linux 5.20 merge window...

KDE Plasma 5.26 Eyes Using C++20 Features

Phoronix - Sat, 07/09/2022 - 17:42
KDE developers are looking at possibly making use of C++20 language features within the Plasma 5.26 desktop and the newer C++ usage could work its way to other KDE components with time too...

Cloud Hypervisor 25.0 Released For Intel-Backed, Rust-Written Linux/Windows VMM

Phoronix - Sat, 07/09/2022 - 17:25
Cloud Hypervisor as what started out as an Intel open-source project and now lives under the Linux Foundation umbrella as a virtual machine monitor (VMM) for use with Linux KVM and Windows MSHV is out with a new feature release...

Experiment Underway To Improve Gentoo's Binary Package Handling With Portage

Phoronix - Sat, 07/09/2022 - 17:18
Gentoo developer Andreas Hüttel "Dilfridge" is experimenting with binary Gentoo package hosting and finding out what improvements to Portage are needed for making it more of a reality at a larger scale...

Intel's ANV Driver Lands VK_EXT_shader_module_identifier - Important For VKD3D-Proton

Phoronix - Sat, 07/09/2022 - 17:05
Following last week's release of Vulkan 1.3.219 that introduced the VK_EXT_shader_module_identifier extension and Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver (RADV) adding support for it earlier this week, Intel's open-source Vulkan driver "ANV" has landed support for this new extension to close out the week...

MSI PRO Z690-A DDR4 WiFi Support Begins Landing In Upstream Coreboot

Phoronix - Sat, 07/09/2022 - 01:30
The past few months we have been closely covering the Coreboot port to an MSI retail motherboard for Intel Alder Lake. This port carried out by the 3mdeb consulting firm has been with their downstream "Dasharo" firmware based on Coreboot while as of yesterday the motherboard port has begun landing in upstream Coreboot...

Ubuntu Achieves A ~50% Reduction In Start Time For Firefox Snap

Phoronix - Sat, 07/09/2022 - 00:32
Canonical engineers have been continuing their quest to improve the start-up time for the Snap version of Mozilla Firefox that is used by default on Ubuntu 22.04 LTS. With the latest improvements now pushed to the Firefox Snap, they are seeing around a 50% reduction in start-time for the web browser...

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