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LXQt 2.0 Desktop Planned For Availability In Fedora 41

Phoronix - Sun, 07/21/2024 - 18:43
A change proposal was raised this week for upgrading Fedora's LXQt desktop offering to the recently released LXQt 2.0 for the upcoming Fedora 41 release...

Initial AMD SEV-SNP KVM Guest VM Support Merged Into Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Sun, 07/21/2024 - 18:34
The Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) updates for Linux 6.11 have been merged and it's a very exciting one for AMD EPYC servers with SEV-SNP guest VM support finally being in the mainline kernel...

RISC-V Sees Support For New ISA Extensions In Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Sun, 07/21/2024 - 18:19
Palmer Dabbelt on Saturday sent out the RISC-V architecture updates for the ongoing Linux 6.11 merge window...

OpenMandriva ROME 24.07 Released With KDE Plasma 6 But Wayland Not Mature Enough

Phoronix - Sun, 07/21/2024 - 07:16
OpenMandriva ROME 24.07 debuted as stable today for this rolling release model of OpenMandriva. With the new release comes the transition to the KDE Plasma 6 desktop but the OpenMandriva developers aren't yet comfortable enough to use Wayland by default and thus the X11 session is preferred...

USB & Thunderbolt Improvements Land In Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Sat, 07/20/2024 - 20:43
Greg Kroah-Hartman on Friday sent out all of the USB/Thunderbolt subsystem feature updates destined for the Linux 6.11 kernel of which there are many different patches across the board...

AVX-512/AVX10 & VAES Optimized AES-GCM Implementation Lands In Linux 6.11

Phoronix - Sat, 07/20/2024 - 18:46
The crypto subsystem updates have landed for the Linux 6.11 kernel...

New Linux Patches Enable The Snapdragon X1 Elite Powered Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6

Phoronix - Sat, 07/20/2024 - 18:34
With Linux 6.11 support for the Lenovo Yoga Slim7x and ASUS Vivobook S15 are upstreamed for some of the first Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite powered laptops. But for follow-on kernel cycles you can expect yet more Snapdragon X1 Elite/Plus powered laptop support to appear with new DeviceTree additions. On Friday, Linaro engineer Konrad Dybcio sent out the patches for enabling the X1 Elite powered Lenovo ThinkPad T14s Gen 6 laptop...

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