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KDE Plasma 5.27 Beta Released With Tiling & Multi-Monitor Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 01/19/2023 - 23:25
The KDE Plasma 5.27 beta is available for testing today as the next big update to the KDE desktop due out as stable next month...

Linux 6.3 To Remove Obsolete GPU Drivers: ATI Rage 128, 3Dfx, S3 Savage, i810 & More

Phoronix - Thu, 01/19/2023 - 22:00
Today a new drm-misc-next pull request was submitted for DRM-Next of various Direct Rendering Manager changes queuing for Linux 6.3. Most significant with today's pull request is eliminating seven old DRM drivers that are for vintage hardware and these open-source drivers are no longer maintained...

Vulkan 1.3.239 Released With New Huawei Extension

Phoronix - Thu, 01/19/2023 - 20:25
While there tend to be new Vulkan API specification updates weekly or bi-weekly for most of the year, there was a one month hiatus due to Christmas and other end of year holidays with many of the corporate developers taking time off work. But that is now over and out today is Vulkan 1.3.239 as the first update in exactly one month...

Debian 12 "Bookworm" Hits Its First Freeze

Phoronix - Thu, 01/19/2023 - 19:45
Debian 12 (codenamed "Bookworm") is expected to be released later this year and as such the first of several code/package freezes has begun...

Mesa Adds Initial Support For Targeting Microsoft's Xbox With "GLon12"

Phoronix - Thu, 01/19/2023 - 19:27
Linux game porter and developer Ethan Lee has added initial support to Mesa for Microsoft's Xbox Game Development Kit (GDK). In turn this early code can allow running the "GLon12" Mesa driver atop the Xbox One and Xbox Series X / S game consoles that can ease porting OpenGL games to the Xbox...

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