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Hyprland 0.45 Compositor Smooths Round Edges, Window Snapping For Floating Windows

Phoronix - Sat, 11/09/2024 - 23:19
Hyprland 0.45 released today as the newest version of this Wayland compositor focused on being an independent, very customizable, and dynamic tiling compositor...

NVIDIA Outlines Current Wayland Limitations & Upcoming Driver Features

Phoronix - Sat, 11/09/2024 - 22:32
Longtime NVIDIA Linux engineer Aaron Plattner shared a status update on Friday around the current feature parity difference between the NVIDIA driver stack on X11 and under (X)Wayland...

Linux 6.13 Bringing DRM Panic Support To NVIDIA GPUs

Phoronix - Sat, 11/09/2024 - 21:40
Friday saw a final round of "drm-misc-next" feature updates ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel merge window. The DRM Panic code continues to be enhanced for improving this "Blue Screen of Death" like experience on the Linux desktop...

New Patches Aim To Optimize Context Switching With Two Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 11/09/2024 - 21:16
A set of Friday night patches provide for some exciting context switching optimizations to the Linux kernel...

Microsoft Azure Linux 3.0 Update Pushes Additions For Intel, AMD & Arm

Phoronix - Sat, 11/09/2024 - 19:10
Microsoft overnight released the newest version of their Azure Linux 3.0 in-house Linux distribution that is used by a variety of internal services at the company as well as external customers...

KDE's Info Center Now Shows Multi-GPU Information, Plasma 6.3 Bringing UI Refinements

Phoronix - Sat, 11/09/2024 - 18:57
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly development recap of all the interesting Plasma desktop changes to have landed over the past week...

Mesa 24.3-rc1 Released With Big Improvements For AMD Radeon & Intel Graphics

Phoronix - Sat, 11/09/2024 - 09:34
The belated first release candidate of Mesa 24.3 is now available for testing of the upgraded OpenGL and Vulkan open-source drivers commonly used on Linux systems and elsewhere...

Wine 9.21 Brings DirectPlay Network Enhancements, I/O Completion Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 11/09/2024 - 08:08
Following a one week delay, Wine 9.21 has been released as the latest development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux and other operating systems. We are also closing in on the approaching Wine 10.0 stable release...

OpenZFS 2.3-rc3 Adds JSON Output For Commonly Used Commands

Phoronix - Sat, 11/09/2024 - 01:02
OpenZFS 2.3 continues working its way toward release as a big step forward for this open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems...

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