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Realtek 802.11ax WiFi Driver "rtw89" Queued Ahead Of Linux 5.16

Phoronix - Sat, 10/16/2021 - 17:40
Arriving in the wireless-drivers-next branch this week is the "rtw89" driver as a Realtek-contributed open-source 802.11ax WiFi driver...

KDE's Plasma Wayland Session Continues Seeing More Crash Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 10/16/2021 - 17:27
This week marked the release of Plasma 5.23 in celebrating 25 years of the KDE desktop project while celebrations didn't last long with developers already hard at work on the Plasma 5.23.1 point release, feature work for Plasma 5.24, and also improvements to the KDE Applications and KDE Frameworks...

Bareflank Hypervisor 3.0 Pre-Release Debuts With Many Changes

Phoronix - Sat, 10/16/2021 - 16:46
The open-source Bareflank Hypervisor project designed to prototype new hypervisors across Intel, AMD, and AArch64 platforms issued their long-awaited 3.0 pre-release on Friday...

Genode-Based Sculpt OS 21.10 Adds Intel GPU Acceleration, USB Web Camera Support

Phoronix - Sat, 10/16/2021 - 15:30
On Thursday in addition to the releases of Ubuntu 21.10 (plus its derivatives) and OpenBSD 7.0, the Genode OS Framework based Sculpt OS saw its 21.10 release...

OpenCL 3.0.9 Specification Released

Phoronix - Sat, 10/16/2021 - 07:32
The Khronos Group's OpenCL working group did a quiet Friday evening tagging of OpenCL 3.0.9...

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