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Intel Continues Making Preparations For Ray-Tracing With Their Linux Graphics Driver

Phoronix - Sun, 12/05/2021 - 22:57
Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver developers continue making their driver preparations for being able to accommodate Vulkan ray-tracing with upcoming Xe HPG graphics having ray-tracing hardware capabilities...

What Is Ubuntu? - How-To Geek

Google News - Sun, 12/05/2021 - 22:00
What Is Ubuntu?  How-To Geek

Linux Fixes Spectre V1 SWAPGS Mitigation After Being Partially Borked Since Last Year

Phoronix - Sun, 12/05/2021 - 21:16
This week's set of "x86/urgent" changes for the Linux 5.16-rc4 kernel due out later today has some Spectre V1 fixes after kernel commits last year ended up partially messing things up around its SWAPGS handling. These fixes in turn will also likely be back-ported to relevant stable kernel series...

x86 Straight-Line Speculation Mitigation Patches Updated For Linux

Phoronix - Sun, 12/05/2021 - 19:13
A year after Arm processors began mitigating straight-line speculation, Linux developers have been working on similar straight-line speculation mitigations for x86/x86_64 processors...

XWayland Adds Support For Touchpad Gestures

Phoronix - Sun, 12/05/2021 - 18:44
XWayland is increasingly great shape especially when it comes to fulfilling the needs of gamers with simply running games lacking native Wayland support with great speed. But when it comes to other use-cases there are occasionally gaps and areas not yet fulfilled by XWayland versus the conventional X.Org Server. One of the latest examples of a feature now correctly wired up is touchpad gesture handling...

EPEL 9 Ready To Provide Extra Packages For RHEL 9, CentOS Stream 9

Phoronix - Sun, 12/05/2021 - 18:21
While RHEL9 is just in beta form right now, due to CentOS Stream 9 now having launched and that effectively serving as the bleeding-edge of the RHEL9 upstream, EPEL 9 has already launched...

Open source mind mapping with Draw.io

opensource.com - Sun, 12/05/2021 - 16:00

There's something special about maps. I remember opening the front book cover of JRR Tolkien's The Hobbit when I was younger, staring at the hand-drawn map of Middle Earth, and feeling the wealth of possibility contained in the simple drawing. Aside from their obvious purpose of actually describing where things are in relation to other things, I think maps do a great job of expressing potential. You could step outside and take the road this way or that way, and if you do, just think of all the new and exciting things you'll be able to see.


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Genode OS 21.11 Now Has Working Intel Gen9+ Graphics, Better PinePhone Support

Phoronix - Sun, 12/05/2021 - 00:54
Genode OS as the interesting open-source operating system framework is out with its v21.11 release this week and delivers on many hardware improvements and other features...

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