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Apple design award winner Afterplace just released on PC with Linux support  GamingOnLinux

Apple design award winner Afterplace just released on PC with Linux support  GamingOnLinux

DRM subsystem lead maintainer David Airlie recently submitted the DRM-Next pull request for merging into Linux 6.11. All of that Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) feature code has landed for the many kernel graphics/display driver updates along with changes to the few AI accelerator "accel" drivers also part of the tree. As usual, the Intel Xe/i915 and AMD AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel drivers see a bulk of the upstream open-source graphics improvements...

Intel Xe2/Battlemage & AMD RDNA4 Lead The Graphics Driver Changes In Linux 6.11  Phoronix

Intel Xe2/Battlemage & AMD RDNA4 Lead The Graphics Driver Changes In Linux 6.11  Phoronix

NVIDIA 560 Linux driver Beta has Wayland improvements, defaults to open GPU kernel modules  GamingOnLinux

NVIDIA 560 Linux driver Beta has Wayland improvements, defaults to open GPU kernel modules  GamingOnLinux

NVIDIA 560 Beta Linux Driver Released with Open GPU Kernel Modules by Default  9to5Linux

NVIDIA 560 Beta Linux Driver Released with Open GPU Kernel Modules by Default  9to5Linux

NVIDIA today released their first Linux beta driver in the new R560 driver release branch. Coming days after their NVIDIA 560 Windows driver, out this morning is the NVIDIA 560.28.03 beta Linux driver...

ChimeraOS 46 brings major upgrades and enhanced handheld support for GPD, AYANEO, OneXPlayer  GamingOnLinux

Linux Mint 22 “Wilma” Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

Linux Mint 22 “Wilma” Is Now Available for Download, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

Following up on the previously noted proposal around Fedora Workstation 42 looking at adding opt-in user metrics, the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has now granted approval for this somewhat controversial feature...

It's not just Windows PCs that have gone belly up, as CrowdStrike's Falcon software has been b0rking Linux-powered computers, too  MSN

Arch-based CachyOS promises speed but trips over its laces  The Register

Arch-based CachyOS promises speed but trips over its laces  The Register

As scheduled, LLVM Clang 19 was branched from mainline Git this morning and is now considered feature frozen ahead of its planned September release. LLVM Clang 20 in turn is now in development with the main Git branch...

We appear to be on the heels of the AMD ROCm 6.2 software release for advancing the open-source AMD Radeon/Instinct GPU compute stack with new features...

Greg Kroah-Hartman described the char/misc pull request for the Linux 6.11 merge window as having "just loads of new drivers and updates." Among the new drivers is beginning to enable support for the KEBA CP500 as the latest FPGA seeing upstream kernel support...