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Linux 6.0-rc4 Released With Various Driver Fixes

Phoronix - Mon, 09/05/2022 - 04:25
Linus Torvalds just released the fourth weekly release candidate of Linux 6.0 in time for some US Labor Day holiday weekend testing...

Linux 6.1 Default Kernel Config To Warn At Boot Of W+X Mappings

Phoronix - Mon, 09/05/2022 - 01:18
A change queued up as part of the "x86/mm" TIP changes expected to land for Linux 6.1 will now have the default kernel configuration warn at kernel boot time around any W+X mappings that pose a security risk...

GNOME Shell & Mutter 43 Release Candidates Bring Last Minute Changes

Phoronix - Mon, 09/05/2022 - 00:40
The release candidates are out today for the GNOME Shell and Mutter updates ahead of this month's GNOME 43 desktop debut...

Mesa RADV Driver Adds Radeon Raytracing Analyzer Support

Phoronix - Sun, 09/04/2022 - 17:47
Mesa's Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has added support for compatibility with GPUOpen's Radeon Raytracing Analyzer...

KDE's Kaidan Messaging App Adding Encrypted Audio/Video Calls

Phoronix - Sun, 09/04/2022 - 17:38
KDE's Kaidan app has been in development for a number of years now as a Jabber/XMPP chat client built around Kirigami and Qt Quick. Kaidan has been under active development and formally became a KDE project in 2019. It's newest ambition is now working out encrypted audio and video calls...

GravityMark 1.70 Released With VK_EXT_mesh_shader, Vulkan ReBAR Support

Phoronix - Sun, 09/04/2022 - 17:20
GravityMark 1.70 has been released as the multi-API graphics benchmark developed by Tellusim Technologies that was started by one of the former Unigine engine developers...

It's Past Time To Stop Using egrep & fgrep Commands, Per GNU grep 3.8

Phoronix - Sun, 09/04/2022 - 07:25
GNU Grep 3.8 was released today for this commonly-used command-line utility for search plain text data. With the GNU Grep 3.8 it's now made more clear that if you are still relying on the egrep and fgrep commands, it's past due for switching to just grep with the appropriate command-line arguments...

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