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Wayback Hopes To Be Ready Next Year With Alpine Linux Planning To Use It By Default

Phoronix - Wed, 07/02/2025 - 21:56
A few days ago Wayback was announced as an X11 compatibility layer for X11 desktops environments leveraging a rootful XWayland server. While currently experimental, the hope is that it will be production-ready next year and Alpine Linux is looking at using it by default for its X11 environment...

Better Late Than Never: Linux 6.17 To Enable Intel DG1 Graphics By Default

Phoronix - Wed, 07/02/2025 - 20:49
Prior to the DG2/Alchemist discrete GPUs from Intel there was the DG1 graphics processor that served primarily as the initial developer vehicle for facilitating Intel's modern discrete GPU push. DG1 ended up being in the Intel Xe MAX GPU for a small number of laptops and then there's also been a select number of DG1 graphics cards surfacing on eBay in the years since. Only now in 2025 is the upstream Linux kernel driver set to enable Intel DG1 graphics out-of-the-box for modern Linux distributions...

GNOME Papers Document Viewer Approved To Replace Evince In GNOME 49

Phoronix - Wed, 07/02/2025 - 18:33
GNOME Papers has been in development as a modern GTK4-based document viewer. There have been many improvements made to Papers and now ahead of the GNOME 49 release in September, it's been approved to replace Evince as the official document viewer of the GNOME desktop...

Mesa's Zink Preps NV_timeline_semaphore For Better OpenGL-Vulkan Interoperability

Phoronix - Wed, 07/02/2025 - 18:20
Mike Blumenkrantz with Valve's Linux graphics driver team continues working on enhancements to Mesa's Zink driver for OpenGL implemented over the Vulkan API. A new merge request is further enhancing OpenGL and Vulkan interoperability by supporting the GL_NV_timeline_semaphore extension...

Linux Patches Posted For Axiado AX3000 SoC Support

Phoronix - Wed, 07/02/2025 - 18:07
The newest Arm SoC seeing Linux kernel patches working their way toward the mainline kernel is the Axiado AX3000 as a security processor designed for cloud data center, network gear, and more...

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