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Linux Turning Off The Light - The LightNVM Subsystem To Be Removed

Phoronix - Sun, 08/15/2021 - 14:00
Merged to the mainline Linux kernel six years ago was the LightNVM subsystem as part of Linux 4.4 LTS around "Open-Channel SSDs". That LightNVM code is now slated for removal with the upcoming Linux 5.15 cycle...

Debian 11 "Bullseye" Released

Phoronix - Sun, 08/15/2021 - 07:15
Debian 11 "Bullseye" has been officially released now after just over two years in development...

Ogre 13 Open-Source Game Engine Released

Phoronix - Sun, 08/15/2021 - 02:21
Besides the very successful Godot game engine and the up and coming O3DE, Ogre continues progressing as another useful open-source game engine. Out this weekend is Ogre 13.0 as the project switches up its versioning scheme...

Reverse Engineering & Bring-Up Of Linux On The Apple Silicon M1 Continues

Phoronix - Sun, 08/15/2021 - 00:06
A new status report has been published by the developers of "Asahi Linux" that are continuing to work on providing Linux support for the Apple Silicon initially with the M1 SoC...

ASUS Laptop Platform Profile Support Under Review For Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 08/14/2021 - 21:39
One of the features that has come together nicely for Linux on laptops in recent months has been the platform profile support around the ACPI specification with support from multiple laptop vendors for allowing users to control their power/performance preference based on various system profile configurations. A patch is pending for newer ASUS laptops to enjoy this platform profile control under Linux...

Debian GNU/Hurd 2021 Released With Experimental Rump-Based Userland Disk Driver, Go Port

Phoronix - Sat, 08/14/2021 - 21:19
In addition to Debian GNU/Linux 11 set for release today, Debian GNU/Hurd 2021 has been released as the unofficial port of Debian to the GNU Hurd micro-kernel...

Debian 11 Is Releasing This Weekend With Many Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 08/14/2021 - 18:27
Debian 11.0 "Bullseye" is due for release today and the Debian developers involved are indeed putting the final touches on this next major Debian GNU/Linux distribution release...

KDE Sees More Improvements To Plasma, Konsole, Breeze This Week

Phoronix - Sat, 08/14/2021 - 18:15
KDE developers had another busy summertime week with a variety of UI improvements and other polishing to this open-source desktop environment...

Ardour 6.9 Digital Audio Workstation Released

Phoronix - Sat, 08/14/2021 - 12:00
Ardour as one of the leading open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) solutions is out with another new release...

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