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Intel Preparing Linux Graphics Driver For Xe3P DisplayPort 2.1 ALPM Support

Phoronix - Tue, 11/04/2025 - 09:30
Last month Intel's open-source Linux software engineers began sending out Xe3P_LPD display support in preparation for display capabilities with Nova Lake. Now being built out atop that is further functionality with the most recent talking point being DisplayPort 2.1 Advanced Link Power Management (ALPM)...

Rust-Based Redox OS Gets Servo Web Engine Running - Sort Of

Phoronix - Tue, 11/04/2025 - 06:55
The Rust-based Redox OS open-source operating system project is out with its October 2025 status report. Most notable is this Rust-based OS now having the Rust-based Servo web engine running... Albeit in extremely crude form at the moment...

Linux 6.19 To Optimize Exiting To User-Space For Restartable Sequences

Phoronix - Tue, 11/04/2025 - 06:45
Queued up in a TIP branch ahead of the Linux 6.19 merge window opening in about one month's time is optimizing the Restartable Sequences "RSEQ" code for its exit to user-space code path...

Git 2.52-rc0 Starts Working On SHA1-SHA256 Interop, Hints For New Default Branch Name

Phoronix - Tue, 11/04/2025 - 01:28
The first test release of the Git 2.52 distributed revision control system is now available. As has been a common trend, Git 2.52 is making further preparations in anticipation of the big Git 3.0 milestone...

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