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This week Intel engineers sent out a number of kernel graphics driver pull requests of new code for the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle. In addition to the UHBR for Panther Lake and lower Alchemist GPU power use with whitelisted GPUs and fixing old Intel Haswell era graphics platforms, on Friday another (smaller) pull request was sent in for the modern Xe kernel driver...

Intel Xe Driver Adding "RPa" Frequency Reporting With Linux 6.14  Phoronix

GNOME 48 is moving along with the GNOME 48 Alpha packages due this weekend followed by the beta in early February. GNOME 48 is still making good progress in its goal to release on 19 March...

Sony engineers are proposing that the LLVM Clang compiler changes its default C++ mode from C++17 to C++20. This coincides with Sony planning to soon upgrade their PlayStation 5 compiler downstream to C++20 by default...

Prime Gaming January 11th 2025 edition round-up for Linux / SteamOS and Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux

This week brought the KDE Plasma 6.3 beta as well as a number of last minute feature changes for this desktop update due for release in February...

The 4 easiest ways to test Linux on your old PC before Windows 10 support runs out ody  «Кавказ Пост» - новости Северного Кавказа и Закавказья

Linux Mint 22.1 is nearly here, the stable ISO is undergoing last-minute checks  Neowin

Linux Mint 22.1 is nearly here, the stable ISO is undergoing last-minute checks  Neowin

January 11th Tech news roundup Linux Foundation partners with Chromium browsers, TikTok US ban seems likely, NVIDIA RTX 5070 could dominate the market  FileHippo News

Merged this Friday night for Mesa 25.0 is initial Vulkan Video AV1 decode support for Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan Linux driver...

Google and Linux Foundation form Chromium love club  The Register

Civilization 7 system requirements for Windows PC, Steam Deck, Mac, and Linux  Polygon

Wine 10.0 is working its way toward a stable release likely in the next week or two, but today there is Wine 10.0-rc5 with the latest round of fixes...

Thanks to Nvidia, there's a new generation of PCs coming, and they'll be running Linux  ZDNet

Linux Foundation forms new initiative to support development of Chromium-based projects  SDTimes.com

Experimental Linux Address Space Isolation "ASI" v2 Patches: I/O Throughput Lower By 70%  Phoronix

Google engineers and others have been talking about Address Space Isolation "ASI" for the Linux kernel to better deal with speculative execution attacks and other CPU vulnerabilities. Last summer there were some new "request for comments" patches working on Linux Address Space Isolation and today a second iteration of those RFC patches were published. They are now out for review but they are unlikely to see much use: the I/O throughput as measured by FIO takes a 70% hit...

Git 2.48 is out today as the newest feature update to this leading distributed version control system...

How to check game compatibility for Linux, SteamOS and Steam Deck  GamingOnLinux