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Coreboot 25.06 Released With Xeon Emerald Rapids Support, Better Panther Lake

Phoronix - Sat, 07/05/2025 - 08:18
Building off Coreboot 25.03 is now the availability of Coreboot 25.06 for further enhancing this open-source system firmware project that continues to see new hardware improvements -- predominantly for Google Chromebook devices but also more Intel platforms and other hardware -- as well as new capabilities to further rival proprietary BIOS solutions...

Vulkan 1.4.321 Released With A Handful Of New Extensions

Phoronix - Sat, 07/05/2025 - 07:15
The Vulkan working group is celebrating the US Independence Day with graphics API independence in today publishing Vulkan 1.4.321 that comes with several new extensions...

Bcachefs Fixes Merged For Linux 6.16-rc5

Phoronix - Sat, 07/05/2025 - 02:07
A handful of Bcachefs file-system fixes were submitted yesterday to Linus Torvalds for merging ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc5 release due out on Sunday. Today they were merged...

Rust-Written Redox OS Continues Making Progress With Wayland

Phoronix - Fri, 07/04/2025 - 23:00
The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system project just published their June 2025 status report to outline recent progress on this innovative platform...

Acer Nitro Gaming Controller"NGR200" To Be Supported By Linux 6.16

Phoronix - Fri, 07/04/2025 - 21:18
Sent in today for the ongoing Linux 6.16 kernel cycle as part of the input subsystem fixes is enabling support for the Acer Nitro Gaming Controller (NGR200)...

Intel Enables Wildcat Lake Display & Experimental Flip Queue For Linux 6.17 Graphics

Phoronix - Fri, 07/04/2025 - 19:00
Intel today sent out a batch of new kernel graphics/display driver code for queuing ahead of the Linux 6.17 merge window opening in a few weeks. There is now DRM Panic support for the Intel i915 and Xe kernel drivers, Wildcat Lake "WCL" display enablement, and experimental flip queue support for Lunar Lake and Panther Lake hardware, among other changes coming for the Intel drivers in Linux 6.17...

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