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Linux 6.8 Dropping Support For Very Old Graphics Drivers

Phoronix - Thu, 12/07/2023 - 23:50
A new drm-misc-next pull request was sent today to DRM-Next bringing a few notable changes for the upcoming Linux 6.8 merge window...

KDE's KWin Adds DMA-Fence Deadline Support

Phoronix - Thu, 12/07/2023 - 23:27
KDE's KWin compositor has added DMA-Fence deadline support to its DRM back-end that can help ensure rendering is completed on-time and otherwise helping to boost the GPU clock speeds...

Alpine Linux 3.19 Released - Now Powered By Linux 6.6 LTS

Phoronix - Thu, 12/07/2023 - 21:56
Alpine Linux 3.19 has been released as the newest feature update to this lightweight Linux distribution employing Busybox and libc...

git.kernel.org Adds Native Dark Mode Support

Phoronix - Thu, 12/07/2023 - 19:54
As an early Christmas present for Linux kernel developers and others keeping track of kernel development, the git.kernel.org Cgit web interface has rolled out native dark mode support...

Raspberry Pi OS Improves Wayfire Rendering, Enhanced Raspberry Pi 5 Support

Phoronix - Thu, 12/07/2023 - 19:42
As a nice update ahead of the holidays, the Raspberry Pi folks have released Raspberry Pi OS 2023-12-05 as the first update to their Debian-based operating system since the official launch of the Raspberry Pi 5 back in October...

Chrome 120 Released With Theora Support Evaporating, Adds WebGPU & CSS Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 12/07/2023 - 19:30
Google on Wednesday released Chrome 120 as the newest version of their cross-platform web browser...

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