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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...

GeForce RTX 30 vs. AMD Radeon RX 6000 Series Vulkan Ray-Tracing On Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 08/14/2021 - 04:00
Given this week's launch of the Radeon RX 6600 XT and that also bringing the new Radeon Software for Linux 21.30 driver, I was curious to see how the Vulkan ray-tracing performance compares now against the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 30 series on Linux.

Wine 6.15 Released With More PE Conversion Work, More 32-bit To 64-bit Thunks

Phoronix - Sat, 08/14/2021 - 03:52
Wine 6.15 has been uncorked as the newest bi-weekly development release of this software that powers Steam Play and more for running Windows games/applications on Linux...

NVIDIA Tegra Open-Source Graphics Driver Introducing New User-Space ABI

Phoronix - Sat, 08/14/2021 - 02:05
NVIDIA's Tegra DRM driver that is part of the mainline kernel will be introducing a new user-space API/ABI with Linux 5.15 that is designed for future hardware while also working for existing Tegra SoCs...

Cirrus Logic "Dolphin" Audio Support Coming For Linux 5.15

Phoronix - Fri, 08/13/2021 - 20:26
Cirrus Logic has contributed a number of improvements to their CS8409 HDA audio driver for the Linux kernel that includes support for new "Dolphin" audio hardware...

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