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Wayland Protocols 1.47 Released With Updated Color Management Protocol

Phoronix - Mon, 12/15/2025 - 23:47
Following the Color Management protocol introduced in Wayland Protocols 1.41, out today is Wayland Protocols 1.47 with various revisions to that color management and HDR support...

Intel Quietly Discontinues Its Open-Source User-Space Gaudi Driver Code

Phoronix - Mon, 12/15/2025 - 22:24
There's another setback to the open-source driver code around Intel's Gaudi accelerator support on Linux...

Igalia's Work Improving The Linux Kernel For Helping Steam Play Gaming On ARM64

Phoronix - Mon, 12/15/2025 - 22:03
Besides Valve funding FEX-Emu for x86_64 binaries to run on AArch64 Linux as part of their Steam Play (Proton) efforts in being able to get Windows x86/x64 games running on AArch64 SteamOS for the Snapdragon-powered Steam Frame, there is also work happening in kernel-space to help this emulated gaming experience on AArch64...

Kernel Graphics Driver Changes Already Begin Lining Up For Linux 6.20~7.0

Phoronix - Mon, 12/15/2025 - 19:15
Even before the Linux 6.19 merge window wrapped up this weekend with the Linux 6.19-rc1 release, there was already the first pull request to DRM-Next of the first batch of new material to be queued for Linux 6.19's successor...

GCC Developers Considering Whether To Accept AI/LLM-Generated Patches

Phoronix - Mon, 12/15/2025 - 18:53
The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) developers now have a need to set a policy whether AI / Large Language Model (LLM) generated patches will be accepted for this open-source compiler stack...

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