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Linux 6.14-rc4 Released: The Right Kind Of "Boring"

Phoronix - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 05:49
Linus Torvalds released the Linux 6.14-rc4 kernel a short time ago as this half-way point to Linux 6.14 stable that should be out before the end of March...

GNU Emacs 30.1 Released With Android Support, Emacs Lisp Native Compiler By Default

Phoronix - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 02:15
GNU Emacs 30.1 is out today as the newest version of this extensible text editor...

Valve Snuck The Lenovo Legion Go S Controller Support Into The Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sun, 02/23/2025 - 21:53
Valve is supporting Lenovo with the Legion Go S gaming handheld running their Arch Linux based SteamOS. Beyond the fanfare at CES, Valve has been collaborating with Lenovo on engineering resources for ensuring the Legion Go S is running well with SteamOS and in turn the mainline Linux kernel. It turns out from a recent sneaky patch, Valve quietly added support to the Linux kernel for what ended up being the Lenovo Legion Go S controller/input handling...

AMD Preparing New GPU Support For Their Kernel Graphics Driver In Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Sun, 02/23/2025 - 19:51
AMD has sent out their initial pull request of "new stuff" for their AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver of feature additions they want to make for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel. Most notable from this week's submission to DRM-Next is preparing a lot of new GPU hardware support...

OneXPlayer Linux Driver Catching Up To The Windows Monitoring Driver

Phoronix - Sun, 02/23/2025 - 19:36
OneXPlayer produces a line of handheld gaming consoles powered by AMD or Intel SoCs. These devices ship with Windows out-of-the-box but given they are x86_64 software have worked alright with Linux and there's been a OneXPlayer Linux driver for supporting sensor readings and other device-specific information from these handhelds. In a big patch series this weekend, that OneXPlayer Linux driver is catching up to its official Windows counterpart...

SVT-AV1 3.0 Released With Faster CPU-Based AV1 Encoding

Phoronix - Sun, 02/23/2025 - 17:00
SVT-AV1 as the open-source, CPU-based AV1 encoder that was started by Intel software engineers and now led by the Alliance for Open Media is out this week with the big SVT-AV1 3.0 release. Here's some details on SVT-AV1 3.0 as well as some initial performance benchmarks for this speedy AV1 encoder, especially on modern Intel and AMD processors...

Mesa's Venus Now Exposes Vulkan 1.4 Support

Phoronix - Sun, 02/23/2025 - 16:00
The Mesa Venus driver code for use with VirtIO-GPU for exposing accelerated Vulkan API support within virtualized environments (VMs) now is advertising Vulkan 1.4 API support...

Wine Staging 10.2 Adds Support For AF_UNIX Sockets

Phoronix - Sun, 02/23/2025 - 09:18
Following Friday's release of Wine 10.2, Wine Staging 10.2 is out for testing as this more experimental/leading-edge version of Wine that is shipping with 300+ extra patches for testing...

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