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KDE Developers Already Making Great Strides On Plasma 5.26

Phoronix - Sun, 07/10/2022 - 17:13
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly recap of all the interesting KDE changes this week, which includes building up of more work targeting Plasma 5.26 this autumn as well as KDE application enhancements and more...

Debian 11.4 Released With Dozens Of Bug & Security Fixes

Phoronix - Sun, 07/10/2022 - 03:20
Debian 11.4 is out as the fourth stable release update to "Bullseye" of this popular community-based Linux distribution...

An Open-Source Linux DRM Graphics Driver For The Atari Falcon

Phoronix - Sat, 07/09/2022 - 22:00
In addition to the OpenChrome DRM/KMS driver hoping to be finally mainlined in 2022 for supporting aging VIA graphics hardware from the long-ago days of their x86 chipsets, separately there is a DRM/KMS kernel driver in the works for something even older... A Linux DRM graphics driver for the Atari Falcon from the early 90's...

Intel Sends In More Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 5.20

Phoronix - Sat, 07/09/2022 - 18:21
Intel this week submitted to DRM-Next what it anticipates to be the last batch of "drm-intel-next" feature changes for the upcoming Linux 5.20 merge window...

KDE Plasma 5.26 Eyes Using C++20 Features

Phoronix - Sat, 07/09/2022 - 17:42
KDE developers are looking at possibly making use of C++20 language features within the Plasma 5.26 desktop and the newer C++ usage could work its way to other KDE components with time too...

Cloud Hypervisor 25.0 Released For Intel-Backed, Rust-Written Linux/Windows VMM

Phoronix - Sat, 07/09/2022 - 17:25
Cloud Hypervisor as what started out as an Intel open-source project and now lives under the Linux Foundation umbrella as a virtual machine monitor (VMM) for use with Linux KVM and Windows MSHV is out with a new feature release...

Experiment Underway To Improve Gentoo's Binary Package Handling With Portage

Phoronix - Sat, 07/09/2022 - 17:18
Gentoo developer Andreas Hüttel "Dilfridge" is experimenting with binary Gentoo package hosting and finding out what improvements to Portage are needed for making it more of a reality at a larger scale...

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