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Chrome's Coreboot Firmware Adapting For 64-bit Boot, Prepping For Intel Panther Lake

Phoronix - Sat, 06/29/2024 - 18:39
The Open-Source Firmware Foundation is out with an interesting blog post by Google firmware engineer Subrata Banik around adapting the Coreboot-based Chrome AP Firmware for 64-bit booting. The transition to 64-bit booting is happening for the system firmware powering Chromebooks and other Chrome devices and is driven in part for Intel Panther Lake generation hardware...

GNOME Ends Out June With New Libadwaita Addition, Optional Building Without X11

Phoronix - Sat, 06/29/2024 - 18:23
This Week in GNOME is out with the latest summary to highlight all of the interesting changes this week...

Niri 0.1.7 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Adds Fractional Scaling

Phoronix - Sat, 06/29/2024 - 17:49
Niri 0.1.7 is out today as the latest version of this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. While the version number may not signify it, Niri 0.1.7 is quite a notable feature update...

KDE Developers Fix More Bugs For Plasma 6.1, Begin More Feature Work On Plasma 6.2

Phoronix - Sat, 06/29/2024 - 17:33
KDE developers have still been busy addressing early fallout from the Plasma 6.1 desktop that released earlier this month while also beginning more feature activity for Plasma 6.2...

RHCSA Series: Learn to Operate and Manage Linux Servers – Part 7

Tecmint - Sat, 06/29/2024 - 13:22
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Wine 9.12 Lands Rewrite Of CMD.EXE Engine & Other Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 06/29/2024 - 08:27
Wine 9.12 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release and in passing roughly the half-way point before Wine 10.0 stable enters the sights for early 2025...

Intel Preps More eDP Panel Replay Driver Code For Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Fri, 06/28/2024 - 23:49
On top of already having queued Intel Battlemage display support and the Battlemage device PCI IDs and other Intel kernel graphics driver features like hardware hang replays, Intel engineers today sent out another batch of "drm-intel-next" material slated for introduction in the upcoming Linux 6.11 cycle...

Servo Web Engine Gets WebGPU Running On OpenGL ES & Other New Features

Phoronix - Fri, 06/28/2024 - 21:39
The Rust-written Servo web layout engine continues progressing for this open-source project now stewarded by the Linux Foundation Europe and seeing code contribution from a range of developers. They have published their June 2024 status update to outline the latest accomplishments for this alternative web engine...

DRM Panic "Screen of Death" To Gain Monochrome Logo Support In Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Fri, 06/28/2024 - 20:37
The DRM Panic handler in Linux 6.10 that is used for presenting a visual error message in case of kernel panics and similar when CONFIG_VT is disabled continues seeing new features. This is the Linux equivalent to Windows' Blue Screen of Death or in the case of DRM Panic can also be a black screen of death. With Linux 6.11, the DRM Panic display can now handle monochrome logos...

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