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Intel Begins Readying Graphics Driver Changes For The Linux 6.14 Kernel

Phoronix - Thu, 12/12/2024 - 20:00
While the Linux 6.13 merge window only recently ended and that kernel won't be out until around the end of January followed by the start of the Linux 6.14 merge window, Intel software engineers on Wednesday sent out their first two pull requests to DRM-Next of new kernel graphics driver features they are readying for this next version of the Linux kernel...

AMD GFX 11.5.3 Graphics Support Added To Mesa 25.0

Phoronix - Thu, 12/12/2024 - 19:38
AMD has added support for another RDNA 3.5 refresh variant to the Mesa graphics driver code for Linux systems...

KDE Gear 24.12 Released With Many Improvements To KDE Apps

Phoronix - Thu, 12/12/2024 - 19:13
Right ahead of the holidays, KDE Gear 24.12 is out to deliver four months worth of refinements to the KDE desktop applications...

Linux Mint 22.1 Beta Released With Cinnamon 6.4 Desktop, Updated Apt Code

Phoronix - Thu, 12/12/2024 - 18:49
The beta release of Linux Mint 22.1 "Xia" is now available for testing of this desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu LTS releases and known for its Cinnamon desktop environment...

PanVK Advertises "Broken" Vulkan 1.1 Support With Mesa 25.0-devel

Phoronix - Thu, 12/12/2024 - 18:21
The PanVK open-source Vulkan API driver for Arm Mali graphics hardware within Mesa is now advertising Vulkan 1.1 support rather than Vulkan 1.0. But it's known to be "broken" so don't be too excited about it yet...

Linux Fixes Regression That Broke File Names With ❤️ & Other Special Characters

Phoronix - Thu, 12/12/2024 - 10:11
Linus Torvalds took to reverting some code tonight within the mainline Linux kernel that inadvertently had broken support having filenames with ❤️ and other special Unicode characters in filenames when on file-systems with case-folding (optional case insensitive file/folder name) support...

OpenZFS 2.2.7 Released With Linux 6.12 Support, Many Fixes

Phoronix - Thu, 12/12/2024 - 09:18
While we are awaiting the release of OpenZFS 2.3 that has been seeing release candidates since early October, OpenZFS 2.2.7 is out today as the newest stable release of this ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems...

Proton 9.0-4 Released To Improve More Windows Games On Linux

Phoronix - Thu, 12/12/2024 - 05:03
Valve and CodeWeavers today released Proton 9.0-4 as the newest version of their Wine downstream that powers Steam Play for running an incredible number of modern Windows games on Linux...

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