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Sway 1.6-rc1 Released With Better Touchscreen/Tablet Support

Phoronix - Wed, 03/17/2021 - 12:00
For fans of Sway as the i3-inspired Wayland compositor the v1.6 update is coming soon while out today is the release candidate...

Zlib-ng 2.0 Released As More Performant + Modern Zlib Fork

Phoronix - Wed, 03/17/2021 - 05:17
Zlib-ng 2.0 is out today as the first stable release of this zlib fork focused on "next generation" systems with speedier performance and a more modern API, among other changes...

RHEL In Your Car? Red Hat Building Out Automotive Infotainment Team

Phoronix - Wed, 03/17/2021 - 03:08
Red Hat is in the process of building out an "infotainment" team to work on low-level Linux infrastructure work around their growing automotive efforts...

System76 Pangolin Laptop Launches - Powered By AMD Ryzen 4000 Series

Phoronix - Wed, 03/17/2021 - 00:00
Going back to last December System76 had been teasing a new Pangolin laptop that would be AMD powered. Finally their new laptop has launched with Ryzen 4000 series mobile processors and making use of the integrated Radeon graphics...

Intel Details Rocket Lake S Processors, Linux Benchmarks To Come

Phoronix - Tue, 03/16/2021 - 23:00
Intel today is publicly detailing their 11th Gen "Rocket Lake S" processors. Here is what you need to know about Rocket Lake S although we cannot yet share any Linux performance figures until that later Rocket Lake S review embargo lift date.

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