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More Intel Xeon Clearwater Forest Enablement Merged For Linux 6.13

Phoronix - Sat, 01/11/2025 - 01:02
Squeezing into the mainline Linux 6.13 kernel code today as part of the latest batch of "fixes" are two additional enablement bits for the upcoming high-density Intel Xeon Clearwater Forest server processors...

Lenovo Discovers Situation Of Linux Dropping PCIe Gen 5 NVMe SSDs To Gen 1 Speeds

Phoronix - Fri, 01/10/2025 - 23:33
A change made to the Linux kernel in June 2023 has led to a situation where PCIe Gen5 NVMe solid state drives could potentially drop down to Gen1 speeds... Lenovo engineers spotted this issue and bisected the problem along with coming up with a solution...

Servo Browser Engine Adds Dark Mode, Some XPath Support

Phoronix - Fri, 01/10/2025 - 22:50
The Servo open-source web browser layout engine project has published their newest monthly recap to highlight the progress they made during December 2024. They ended the year on a high note with getting dark mode support working and other features wired up -- including enough to now be able to read Discord messages but not yet enough to actually post messages on Discord...

VKD3D-Proton 2.14.1 Brings A Few Fixes For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan

Phoronix - Fri, 01/10/2025 - 22:02
Hans-Kristian Arntzen with Valve has just released VKD3D-Proton 2.14.1 as this Direct3D 12 over Vulkan implementation...

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