Open-source News

Linux 6.10 Is Making It Much Easier To Deal With Quirky Touchscreens

Phoronix - Fri, 05/31/2024 - 19:02
Right now when dealing with quirky/buggy touchscreens a C file needs to be manually manipulated and the Linux kernel recompiled. With a new "i2c_touchscreen_props" kernel command line option on its way to the mainline kernel, the process of overriding touchscreen properties is dramatically easier for those dealing with Linux on touchscreen-enabled devices...

Bcachefs Preparing For New Features In Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Fri, 05/31/2024 - 18:37
Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet sent in a batch of file-system fixes on Thursday for the in-development Linux 6.10 kernel. In that pull request he teased features that are set to arrive with the Linux 6.11 kernel later in the summer...

More AMDGPU Linux Firmware Published For RDNA 3+

Phoronix - Fri, 05/31/2024 - 18:28
Last month we began seeing AMDGPU driver firmware files published for the rumored "RDNA3+" hardware as an RDNA3 refresh (also as "RDNA 3.5") for upcoming APUs. More firmware files have now landed public in linux-firmware.git for these forthcoming RDNA3 refresh products...

Kdenlive 24.05 Brings Multi-Format Rendering, Automatic Subtitle Translations

Phoronix - Fri, 05/31/2024 - 18:19
If the recent release of Flowblade 2.16 video editor wasn't of interest to you due to being GTK-based software, the Qt/KDE-aligned Kdenlive video editor is out this week with its Kdenlive 24.05 feature release...

Pages