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Linux Mint 22 Aims To Be Out This Month After Fixing Many Bugs

Phoronix - Sun, 07/07/2024 - 20:49
Ubuntu-based Linux Mint 22 aims for release this month after a busier than usual period of bug fixing...

More HID BPF Functionality & New Drivers For Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Sun, 07/07/2024 - 20:35
Upstreamed to the mainline Linux kernel last year was HID BPF as a means of more easily shipping new drivers and in particular quirks/workarounds for different HID devices. This allows for some nice continued innovations around (e)BPF within the Linux kernel. With Linux 6.11 there is yet more HID BPF capabilities to be upstreamed as well as new drivers...

Linux Seeing Improved Support For The Lenovo Yoga C630 WOS ARM Laptop After Five Years

Phoronix - Sun, 07/07/2024 - 18:44
When it comes to (non-Apple) ARM laptops all the excitement these days is around the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite SoC. But for those that happen to have a 5+ year old Lenovo Yoga C630 WOS laptop or come across one in a bargain bin, the Linux kernel is seeing improved support for this older ARM laptop powered by an aging Snadragon 850 SoC...

Linux 6.11 To Introduce Block Atomic Writes - Including NVMe & SCSI Support

Phoronix - Sun, 07/07/2024 - 18:19
The Linux kernel's block subsystem for storage is poised to introduce support for atomic writes with the upcoming Linux 6.11 merge window...

Linux 6.11 To Add Perf Support For Intel Arrow Lake & Lunar Lake

Phoronix - Sat, 07/06/2024 - 20:30
The latest Linux kernel enablement work for upcoming Intel Arrow Lake and Lunar Lake processors is perf subsystem support...

GNOME's Key Rack & Phosh Mobile Wayland Shell See New Releases

Phoronix - Sat, 07/06/2024 - 18:31
This Week in GNOME is out with their newest issue to detail changes made by various GNOME components over the first few days of July...

KDE Plasma 6.2 To Support libinput's Auto-Scrolling Feature

Phoronix - Sat, 07/06/2024 - 17:59
It's been a busy start to July with KDE developers tackling more features for Plasma 6.2 while continuing to deliver fixes to the modern KDE Plasma desktop stack...

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