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Cage 0.2 Released For Wayland-Powered Kiosks With Single, Maximized Apps

Phoronix - Sun, 10/06/2024 - 22:34
Prominent Wayland developer Simon Ser has released Cage v0.2, a Wayland kiosk compositor that runs single, maximized applications...

Mesa 24.3 Adds New Build Option To Allow Rusticl Driver Support To Be Enabled By Default

Phoronix - Sun, 10/06/2024 - 22:22
Red Hat engineer Karol Herbst continues enhancing Mesa's Rusticl driver that allows for a Rust-based OpenCL driver implementation for use by Gallium3D drivers. The newest addition is a build-time option for controlling devices to be enabled by default...

Wasmer 4.4 Released To Continue Pushing Universal Apps With WebAssembly

Phoronix - Sun, 10/06/2024 - 21:04
Wasmer 4.4 is out as the newest version to this prominent WebAssembly (WASM) runtime that supports WASIX / WASI / EmScripten to "run software anywhere" by effectively serving as lightweight containers and being able to scale from the edge to the cloud...

Apple Vulkan Driver "HoneyKrisp" Lands Many Fixes & Features

Phoronix - Sun, 10/06/2024 - 18:24
HoneyKrisp as the open-source Mesa Vulkan driver for Apple Silicon graphics and developed as part of the Asahi Linux project has landed a number of enhancements into the mainline Mesa code...

OpenRazer 3.9 Adds Support For Many Newer Razer Devices On Linux

Phoronix - Sun, 10/06/2024 - 18:15
OpenRazer 3.9 is out today as the newest version of this community project providing open-source driver support for Razer peripherals on Linux. This out-of-tree set of Linux kernel drivers allows for various Razer devices to be configured and fully leveraged under Linux...

Bcachefs Fixes Pull Once Again Frustrates Linus Torvalds - Two Choices Offered

Phoronix - Sun, 10/06/2024 - 08:24
Linus Torvalds merged the newest round of fixes to the experimental Bcachefs file-system, but it's left Linux creator Linus Torvalds frustrated and he's presented two choices for the file-system moving forward due to the continued LKML drama...

The Long-Awaited GIMP 3.0 Closing In On Its First Release Candidate

Phoronix - Sun, 10/06/2024 - 01:12
The long-in-development GIMP 3.0 open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshop hopes to ship its release candidate in the near future...

33 years of Linux - MyBroadband

Google News - Sat, 10/05/2024 - 23:44
33 years of Linux  MyBroadband

Fedora 41 Has Working Intel IPU6 Web Camera Support With Modern Laptops

Phoronix - Sat, 10/05/2024 - 21:42
It's been a long journey to see good web camera support for Intel Alder Lake and newer designs making use of the IPU6 imaging IP. But with Fedora 41 due for release in the coming weeks, there will finally be good out-of-the-box, open-source support for the IPU6-based web cameras in modern Intel Core laptops across Tigerlake / Alder Lake / Raptor Lake laptops...

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