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Btrfs Receives A Very Important Last Minute Fix For Linux 6.3

Phoronix - Sat, 04/22/2023 - 01:00
Ahead of the Linux 6.3 kernel being potentially released as stable on Sunday, two last minute patches for the Btrfs file-system driver were submitted today to address a pressing problem since Linux 6.2...

Intel Updates Packaged Arc Graphics Driver For Ubuntu 22.04 LTS

Phoronix - Fri, 04/21/2023 - 22:30
While Linux 6.2 supports Arc Graphics out-of-the-box and Mesa 23.1 has good OpenGL/Vulkan support, for those running Linux distributions on older kernels and Mesa packages there is less than ideal support -- either no support at all or having to resort to force-enabling the DG2/Alchemist support and potentially running on older OpenGL/Vulkan drivers with various problems. To ease the experience for those running Ubuntu 22.04 LTS, Intel has been maintaining a packaged version of their DRM kernel driver as a DKMS module as well as updated Mesa packages...

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