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New Wacom Drawing Tablet Driver Features With Linux 6.12

Phoronix - Fri, 09/20/2024 - 21:47
The HID subsystem updates have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.12 kernel. Notable this time around are some new feature additions for the popular Wacom drawing tablet support...

Proposal Seeks To Replace MySQL With MariaDB By Default For Ubuntu 25.04

Phoronix - Fri, 09/20/2024 - 21:02
Most Linux distributions have been defaulting to MariaDB as the default MySQL server for years. Ubuntu though has been a notable outlier still relying on Oracle MySQL for the default MySQL service. A proposal raised by an Ubuntu developer hopes to change that for Ubuntu 25.04 in the new year...

Gfxstream Merged Into Mesa For Vulkan Virtualization

Phoronix - Fri, 09/20/2024 - 18:42
After seven months under review, Google's Gfxstream code has been upstreamed into Mesa 24.3 as a Vulkan virtualization solution...

OpenZFS Merges Support For Direct IO

Phoronix - Fri, 09/20/2024 - 18:30
The OpenZFS project has merged DirectIO (O_DIRECT) support for the ZFS file-system to bypass the ARC for reads and writes...

Haiku OS Working On USB 3 SuperSpeed Plus Support

Phoronix - Fri, 09/20/2024 - 18:20
The Haiku open-source operating project known for letting the BeOS spirit live on is out with their newest monthly progress report...

Dell XPS 9345 With Snapdragon X1 Sees Linux Patches But Not Yet Speakers & Other Features

Phoronix - Fri, 09/20/2024 - 18:11
Following the other recent work around Linux enablement for Snapdragon X1 powered laptops, yesterday patches were posted for getting the X1 Elite powered Dell XPS 9345 working with Linux but not all functionality is currently working...

Real-Time "PREEMPT_RT" Support Merged For Linux 6.12

Phoronix - Fri, 09/20/2024 - 17:47
After many years in the making, it finally was merged overnight... The real-time "PREEMPT_RT" kernel support was merged a few hours ago into Linux Git for this year's Linux 6.12 kernel!..

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