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Intel Preps New Performance Optimizations & Features For Linux 6.15 Graphics Driver

Phoronix - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 23:14
In addition to AMD beginning to queue graphics driver improvements for Linux 6.15, Intel open-source engineers are doing the same and this morning sent out their initial feature pull request to DRM-Next of the i915/Xe kernel graphics/display driver improvements they have been working on for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel...

MCTP-Over-USB Driver Slated For Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 21:52
A new driver planned to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle is an implementation of MCTP over USB as defined by the DMTF standard DSP0283...

Years In The Making, Intel Timed I/O "TIO" Looks To Finally Land In Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 19:29
Intel Timed I/O "TIO" has been present on Intel processors going back to 2019 and the Linux driver support has been worked on for several years, but finally this year with the upcoming Linux 6.15 cycle is this Intel Timed I/O code expected to be merged...

Linux's libinput Input Library Finally Supports 3-Finger Dragging

Phoronix - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 19:07
Libinput as the open-source input handling library used by the modern Linux desktop both by Wayland compositors and the X.Org Server now has support for three-finger dragging...

Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Now Enables VK_EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64

Phoronix - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 19:00
The newest feature merged this weekend to Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver for Linux systems is support for the VK_EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64 extension...

KiCad 9.0 Released For Advancing Open-Source EDA

Phoronix - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 13:00
KiCad 9.0 is now available as the newest version of this leading open-source Electronics Design Automation (EDA) suite that can rival some proprietary solutions for designing PCBs and other electronic hardware...

Transitioning Red Hat’s Operational and IT leadership

Red Hat News - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 08:00
Today, we are sharing news that Carolyn Nash, Red Hat’s senior vice president and chief operating officer (COO), will retire after a 35-year career spanning numerous leadership positions and more than eight years with Red Hat. Bobby Leibrock will step into a combined role of senior vice president, chief operating officer and chief financial officer, effective immediately. Carolyn will remain with Red Hat in an advisory capacity through June 2025 to assist with the transition. As part of this move, Marco Bill has been named senior vice president and chief information officer, reporting to Bob

Griot and Grits is preserving Black history through AI

Red Hat News - Mon, 02/24/2025 - 08:00
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is quickly paving the way for technological innovation across countless industries and has infiltrated many of our day-to-day activities–especially in education. Educational institutions have increasingly adopted AI technology in the spirit of innovating teaching and learning practices and providing greater access to educational resources. History, for example, is a core subject that can benefit from the use of AI to enrich and synthesize the context of historical events, figures and movements as additional background information and sources are uncovered–and R

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