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Ubuntu 25.04 & Fedora 42 Hit A Long Sought Milestone With HDR Support Working Well On The Linux Desktop

Phoronix - Tue, 04/29/2025 - 23:31
It's almost majestic: HDR display support working on the Linux desktop. If you asked me at the start of the calendar year if I'd expect to see modern Linux distributions shipping with working HDR display support in H1'2025, I would have been doubtful. But after a lot of miraculous work that landed across numerous upstream repositories over the past two months or so, everything has come together just in time for the likes of Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora Workstation 42. There still are apps not supporting HDR and the like, but the core infrastructure is in place and working. The past two weeks I've begun testing out the Linux HDR desktop experience with the ASUS ROG Swift OLED PG27UCDM 27-inch 4K display. Between the ASUS PG27UCDM's QD-OLED display and HDR support enabled under Linux, it delivers a very beautiful Linux desktop experience.

DRM Code For Linux 6.16 Hides The "Disgusting Turds" & Adds TI AM68 GPU Support

Phoronix - Tue, 04/29/2025 - 21:59
Sent out today was a batch of drm-misc-next patches for queuing ahead of the Linux 6.16 merge window. There are a few notable changes here as part of the Direct Rendering Manager updates for the core code and smaller kernel drivers...

Mutter Merges Wayland Toplevel Tag Protocol For GNOME 49

Phoronix - Tue, 04/29/2025 - 20:45
In addition to the recent merge to Mutter for improving fullscreen apps with direct scanout enhancements for GNOME 49, another early addition also landed today in Mutter: support for Wayland's toplevel tag protocol...

3dfx Voodoo 5 Graphics Driver Can Work On Open-Source React OS

Phoronix - Tue, 04/29/2025 - 18:39
For nostalgic open-source fans, React OS as the "open-source Windows" operating system striving for binary compatibility with Windows drivers and applications can now work with the 3dfx Voodoo 5 driver...

Intel Xe Driver Preps Additional Changes For Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Tue, 04/29/2025 - 18:14
On top of the Intel Xe driver changes already queued in DRM-Next for the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window, an additional set of Intel Xe kernel graphics driver changes were mailed out yesterday...

Intel HID Preps For Panther Lake, Other Laptop Enhancements Squeeze Into Linux 6.15

Phoronix - Tue, 04/29/2025 - 18:06
Another round of x86 platform driver updates was sent out today for the ongoing Linux 6.15 merge window. Besides some fixes, there is also new hardware support making it into this week's platform-drivers-x86 updates...

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