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KDE Plasma 5.24 Beta Released With Better Wayland Support

Phoronix - Thu, 01/13/2022 - 22:23
KDE has made available the beta of the upcoming Plasma 5.24 desktop update ahead of its planned stable release on 8 February...

Linux Kernel Patches Posted For Bringing Up Tesla's Full Self-Driving SoC

Phoronix - Thu, 01/13/2022 - 21:10
Samsung in partnership with Tesla has posted a set of 23 patches for enabling Tesla's Full Self-Driving (FSD) SoC for the mainline Linux kernel...

Intel Arc DG2 "Alchemist" Added For Mesa 22.0 But Code Disabled For Now

Phoronix - Thu, 01/13/2022 - 20:40
Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver developers have now committed the DG2/Alchemist graphics card PCI IDs and device information data to Mesa 22.0 for their OpenGL and Vulkan driver support, but for now until the Linux kernel support is baked this is disabled...

Microsoft Reworks The "DXGKRNL" Driver It Wants To Get Into The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Thu, 01/13/2022 - 18:38
Back in 2020 Microsoft announced the DXGKRNL driver as the kernel driver component for supporting GPU accelerated use-cases within Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL2). That original DXGKRNL driver was quickly shot down by upstream kernel developers and various issues raised while now for the past year Microsoft has been reworking this kernel driver and on Wednesday published the new version...

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