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Fedora 44 Feature Approved For Better Windows On ARM Laptop Experience

Phoronix - Tue, 01/20/2026 - 21:08
A change proposal has been cleared by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee "FESCo" for providing a nice out-of-the-box experience for Windows on ARM laptops namely the recent Snapdragon X1 laptops and will also be important for the upcoming Snapdragon X2 laptops too...

Adreno Gen 8 Vulkan Graphics Merged For Mesa 26.0 To Support The Snapdragon X2

Phoronix - Tue, 01/20/2026 - 19:18
Merged in time for the upcoming Mesa 26.0 release is the merging of Vulkan driver support for the Qualcomm Adreno Gen 8 graphics support that is notably used by the new Snapdragon X2 laptop SoCs as well as the Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5...

DragonFlyBSD Now Allows Optional AMD GCN 1.1 Support In AMDGPU Driver

Phoronix - Tue, 01/20/2026 - 19:02
DragonFlyBSD's AMDGPU kernel graphics driver continues to be a port of the AMDGPU Linux kernel driver. Their latest porting effort for AMD graphics on DragonFlyBSD is now enabling optional support for the GCN 1.1 "Sea Islands (CIK) graphics processors on this modern alternative to the prior Radeon kernel driver...

How to Install ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors on Linux ARM64 Devices

Tecmint - Tue, 01/20/2026 - 17:10
The post How to Install ONLYOFFICE Desktop Editors on Linux ARM64 Devices first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

ARM (Advanced RISC Machine) is a RISC (Reduced Instruction Set Computing) instruction-set architecture developed by ARM Holdings, which is increasingly

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January 20, 2026 - Hackaday

Google News - Tue, 01/20/2026 - 17:03
January 20, 2026  Hackaday

X.Org Server May Create A New Selective Git Branch With Hopes Of A New Release This Year

Phoronix - Tue, 01/20/2026 - 09:51
A proposal has been laid out for a new X.Org Server "main" Git branch to house their development going forward and cleaning up the development lapses over the past few years. Ultimately the hope is for having a new cleaned-up X.Org Server and XWayland Git branch for shipping new releases in 2026...

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