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Karol Herbst Steps Down As Nouveau Maintainer Due To Linux Kernel's Toxic Environment

Phoronix - Sat, 02/15/2025 - 19:40
Karol Herbst has been a Nouveau driver developer for over a decade working on this open-source, reverse-engineered NVIDIA Linux graphics driver. He went on to become employed by Red Hat. While he's known more these days for his work on Mesa and the Rusticl OpenCL driver for it, he's still remained a maintainer of the Nouveau kernel driver. But today he announced he's resigning as a Nouveau driver maintainer due to differences with the upstream Linux kernel developer community...

KDE Developers Addressing Early Bugs From Plasma 6.3

Phoronix - Sat, 02/15/2025 - 19:27
KDE Plasma 6.3 released this week as the newest step forward for the KDE desktop. While it was smooth on the whole, there were some early bugs that KDE developers were dealing with this week. KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly development summary for the Plasma desktop...

Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Rebranding As AerynOS

Phoronix - Sat, 02/15/2025 - 13:00
The nearly three year old Serpent OS Linux distribution started by Ikey Doherty of Solus fame is going to re-brand as AerynOS...

Go 1.24 Brings Performance Improvements, Better WebAssembly Support

Phoronix - Sat, 02/15/2025 - 09:24
Go 1.24 was released this week by Google engineers as the newest step forward for this popular programming language...

Dynamic Triple Buffering Merged For GNOME 48

Phoronix - Sat, 02/15/2025 - 02:35
As quite a Valentine's Day treat, the long-in-development dynamic triple buffering support for GNOME's Mutter compositor was just merged ahead of next month's GNOME 48 desktop release!..

Linux 6.15 To Ensure PlayStation 5 Controllers Use The Correct Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 02/14/2025 - 23:49
A change queued up by an Amazon engineer ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle will ensure that PlayStation 5 controllers on Linux load with the correctly desired driver...

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