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Open-Source PowerVR Driver Being Extended For The Imagination BXS-4-64 MC1 GPU

Phoronix - Wed, 11/06/2024 - 00:33
Upstreamed at the start of the year was the Imagination PowerVR open-source DRM kernel driver for newer Imagination Rogue GPUs. That upstream kernel driver is now being extended to cover the Imagination BXS-4-64 MC1 GPU...

Linux 6.13 To Drop Fieldbus Just Five Years After Being Merged

Phoronix - Tue, 11/05/2024 - 19:36
Merged back in 2019 was the Fieldbus subsystem as a set of network protocols for real-time distributed control of automated industrial systems. But now five years later, Fieldbus is being removed from the mainline Linux kernel since the code hasn't been maintained...

Linux 6.13 To Enhance Logic For Trusting Built-In Thunderbolt Controllers

Phoronix - Tue, 11/05/2024 - 19:14
Due to the possibility of DMA attacks from connected Thunderbolt devices, Linux and other platforms have built up safeguards over the years and different security levels for Thunderbolt to better protect systems having this high speed interface exposing PCIe. With the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel, the logic of the kernel is being enhanced to better detect and trust built-in Thunderbolt controllers...

LXQt 2.1 Released With New Wayland Session Component

Phoronix - Tue, 11/05/2024 - 18:51
LXQt 2.1 is now available as the latest feature release to this Qt-based lightweight desktop environment. Most significant with LXQt 2.1 is the introduction of the lxqt-wayland-session component...

How to Use Syntax Highlighting in Nano Editor

Tecmint - Tue, 11/05/2024 - 13:58
The post How to Use Syntax Highlighting in Nano Editor first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides .

Nano is a simple and user-friendly command-line text editor for Linux, which is often used for basic text editing tasks,

The post How to Use Syntax Highlighting in Nano Editor first appeared on Tecmint: Linux Howtos, Tutorials & Guides.

Intel Panther Lake Display Support Squeezing Into Linux 6.13

Phoronix - Tue, 11/05/2024 - 09:24
Queued up over the past month into DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle has been initial support for Xe3 graphics to be found with Panther Lake processors. The initial Xe3 graphics driver support patches have been trickling in while the final drm-intel-next pull ahead of the Linux 6.13 merge window has readied support for actually being able to light up a display connected to Xe3 LPD graphics with Panther Lake...

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