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GNOME & Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default: "An X11'ism...Dumpster Fire"

Phoronix - Tue, 01/06/2026 - 01:52
Both the GNOME desktop and Mozilla Firefox browser projects are considering disabling middle-click-paste functionality by default...

Valve & AMD Developers Delivered The Most Code Contributions To Mesa In 2025

Phoronix - Tue, 01/06/2026 - 01:22
A developer from Valve working on the RADV Vulkan driver was once again the most prolific contributor to Mesa in 2025 followed by AMD's Marek Olšák with continued improvements around RadeonSI and Gallium3D...

Radeon RADV Driver Lands Another Ray-Tracing Improvement: 30% Faster On RDNA2

Phoronix - Tue, 01/06/2026 - 01:00
Konstantin Seurer as one of the open-source developers working on the RADV driver for Valve has landed another ray-tracing performance optimization for the upcoming Mesa 26.0 release...

Apple SMC Power Driver Posted For Linux Kernel To Finally Expose Battery Stats

Phoronix - Mon, 01/05/2026 - 22:56
The newest open-source Apple Silicon driver being submitted for review in working toward its inclusion in the mainline Linux kernel is the Apple Silicon SMC power driver for being able to expose MacBook battery power metrics as well as AC power adapter status reporting under Linux...

Patches Posted Seeking To Mainline Support For The Acer Swift SFA14-11 Snapdragon Laptop

Phoronix - Mon, 01/05/2026 - 22:13
Patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list are hoping to provide mainline support for the Acer Swift SFA14-11 laptop powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite X1E78100 SoC...

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