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Linux 6.17-rc5 Released With NVIDIA "Nouveau" Driver Stability Issues Addressed

Phoronix - Mon, 09/08/2025 - 06:30
Linux 6.17-rc5 is out for testing as the newest weekly release candidate as we near the stable Linux 6.17 release in late September...

Intel Preps Wildcat Lake Display Support For Linux 6.18, "enable_panel_replay" Option

Phoronix - Sun, 09/07/2025 - 22:14
In addition to the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver updates sent out this week in advance of the Linux 6.18 kernel, there was also a batch of drm-intel-next updates also submitted for predominantly display-related changes to the open-source Intel driver...

Hangover 10.14 Released With Updated FEX, Box64 & DXVK

Phoronix - Sun, 09/07/2025 - 21:28
Hangover is the open-source project that leverages Wine to allow running x86 32-bit and 64-bit Windows applications on AArch64 Linux systems. Hangover pairs Wine with an emulator like Box64 or FEX for the x86/x86_64 to AArch64 translation while also eyeing other CPU architecture support too...

Imagination PowerVR Driver With Linux 6.18 To Support RISC-V

Phoronix - Sun, 09/07/2025 - 18:20
Imagination's open-source PowerVR kernel graphics driver for a while has seen patches extending it to work on RISC-V given that some RISC-V hardware coming to market has featured PowerVR graphics IP. With the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel that work is landing along with enabling support for the T-HEAD TH1520's GPU...

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