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Fedora CoreOS Hopes To Become An Official Edition With Fedora 37

Phoronix - Sun, 06/26/2022 - 03:54
For the Fedora 37 cycle Fedora CoreOS is hoping to be promoted to an official release "edition" alongside the likes of Fedora Workstation and Fedora Server...

Open-Source VIA Graphics Driver Hopes To Be Mainlined For Linux 5.20

Phoronix - Sat, 06/25/2022 - 18:09
2022 is certainly looking to be interesting on the open-source graphics driver front... You probably didn't have Imagination publishing an open-source PowerVR Vulkan driver on your 2022 bingo card nor NVIDIA working on an open-source GPU kernel driver. The latest 2022 surprise is the OpenChrome driver project is hoping to finally be mainlined in Linux 5.20 for open-source VIA graphics for those still running vintage VIA x86 hardware...

Zstd Compression Being Eyed For Use Within LLVM

Phoronix - Sat, 06/25/2022 - 17:35
LLVM developers are eyeing Zstandard "Zstd" use within this compiler stack as a secondary compression method to Zlib. Zstd could be used for compressing ELF debug sections, AST data structures, and other purposes within this open-source compiler stack...

EndeavourOS 22.6 "Atermis" Released With Improved Arm Support, WirePlumber In Use

Phoronix - Sat, 06/25/2022 - 17:21
While Arch Linux itself is quite easy to get setup these days thanks to Archinstall for a quick installation process and sane defaults, for those looking for a nice and polished experience EndeavourOS remains one of the nice Arch-based desktop Linux distributions...

KDE Fixed Many Bugs With Plasma 5.25.1, More Fixes On The Way

Phoronix - Sat, 06/25/2022 - 17:06
KDE released Plasma 5.25.1 this week with the first batch of bug fixes to the Plasma 5.25 desktop while yet more fixes are coming down the pipe to Plasma and other KDE software components...

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