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Alder Lake Support Added To Intel's TCC Driver In Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Sat, 09/11/2021 - 21:00
While much of Intel's next-gen Alder Lake processor support appears to be in good shape for Linux 5.14, some remaining items are landing for the current Linux 5.15 cycle. The latest Alder Lake support hitting the kernel is for Intel's TCC cooling driver...

CoreCtrl 1.2 Brings Support For More Sensors, Voltage Offsets

Phoronix - Sat, 09/11/2021 - 19:45
CoreCtrl 1.2 was released this week as the open-source, independently-developed application for exposing more sensor support on Linux and offering various controls aroudnd over/under-clocking and other tuning. At the moment CoreCtrl is primarily focused on making the most use of AMD Radeon GPUs under Linux with some options not otherwise readily available on the platform...

OpenShot 2.6.1 Released For This Open-Source Video Editor

Phoronix - Sat, 09/11/2021 - 18:37
Released in August was the big OpenShot 2.6 video editor update while this weekend has been succeeded by its first point release...

KDE Sees More Plasma Wayland Fixes As Plasma 5.23 Hits Its Soft Feature Freeze

Phoronix - Sat, 09/11/2021 - 18:13
It's been a busy start to September for the KDE project and is now under its soft feature freeze for Plasma 5.23...

Play with model trains in OpenTTD

opensource.com - Sat, 09/11/2021 - 15:00

My father has always been fond of model trains, and I remember watching him building a track around the Christmas tree when I was young. When Lego train sets were released, he and I transitioned to them for their convenience and inherent extensibility. We built and operated Lego trains and monorail tracks over the course of many years. I've often imagined a possible future in which I have a garage or a basement dedicated to miniature landscapes and electric whistling trains.


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Wine 6.17 Released With Better HiDPI Support For Built-In Apps

Phoronix - Sat, 09/11/2021 - 04:30
Wine 6.17 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release as we move closer towards the Wine 7.0 release around the start of the new year...

Habana Labs AI Driver Updates Submitted For Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Sat, 09/11/2021 - 01:57
While last week was the main "char/misc" pull request for the Linux 5.15 merge window, the Habana Labs driver changes were previously reverted from there due to opposition from the upstream kernel developers in the Direct Rendering Manager space. The concerning patches around DMA-BUF have now been removed and a new pull request submitted with updates to this AI driver for Linux 5.15...

Ubuntu 21.10 Performance Still Pushing Ahead Of Windows 10, Latest Windows 11 Build

Phoronix - Fri, 09/10/2021 - 19:55
With less than one month out from the official release of Microsoft Windows 11, I was curious to run some fresh benchmarks of the latest Windows 11 Insider Preview build against Windows 10 21H1 to see how the performance is looking. Of course, also to see how Windows 11 is shaping up against Ubuntu 21.10 also due for release in October.

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