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Linux 5.16.5 Released To Fix Up Btrfs' Botched Up Defragging

Phoronix - Wed, 02/02/2022 - 02:57
Linux 5.16.5 is out today and making it a notable point release is it fixed up the rather botched state of the Btrfs file-system code for the v5.16 kernel...

System76 Announces "Kudu" AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX Powered Laptop

Phoronix - Wed, 02/02/2022 - 01:00
System76 is today announcing their latest AMD laptop in the form of the Kudu with an AMD Ryzen 9 5900HX processor and up to 64GB of RAM...

Intel Patches To Make It Easier To Run Their Discrete Graphics On Arm, Other Architectures

Phoronix - Tue, 02/01/2022 - 22:27
A change currently being evaluated for Intel's "i915" Linux kernel graphics driver would make it easier for building driver support for their forthcoming discrete graphics products for targeting other non-x86 CPU architectures like Arm..

NVIDIA 510.47.03 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan 1.3 Support, RTX 3050 Compatibility

Phoronix - Tue, 02/01/2022 - 22:15
While it was just yesterday NVIDIA released the 470.103.01 Linux driver, today they have made public the 510.47.03 Linux driver as their first stable version in the NVIDIA 510 Linux driver series...

Intel's "Software Defined Silicon" Linux Support Moving Along

Phoronix - Tue, 02/01/2022 - 19:09
While Intel has not publicly announced their plans around Software Defined Silicon (SDSi), the Linux kernel patches allowing activation of licensed CPU features is continuing to move forward toward mainline integration...

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