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Myna Announced As Speech-To-Text Solution For The Ubuntu Desktop

Phoronix - Wed, 06/17/2026 - 21:34
Earlier this month plans were shared publicly of Ubuntu 26.10 aiming to build a context-aware desktop with local AI features and one of the first capabilities to be integrated speech-to-text support. Now we have more details on the speech-to-text plans with Canonical announcing the Myna project...

Initial AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 FRL Support Successfully Merged For Linux 7.2

Phoronix - Wed, 06/17/2026 - 20:21
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics/display and accelerator driver changes have been merged for Linux 7.2. The Linux 7.2 DRM merge is headlined by the long-awaited HDMI 2.1 Fixed Rate Link (FRL) support for the AMDGPU open-source driver as part of the larger effort of finally proceeding with a full HDMI 2.1 implementation for this AMD Radeon Linux driver...

Qt Creator 20 IDE Released With AI Agent Support

Phoronix - Wed, 06/17/2026 - 18:31
The Qt Creator integrated development environment focused on Qt/C++ programming is out today with Qt Creator 20 and this new version is headlined by adding AI agent support...

GCC 17 Lands Initial Infrastructure For C++29

Phoronix - Wed, 06/17/2026 - 18:23
Merged yesterday to the GCC Git development codebase for next year's GCC 17 release is the initial infrastructure laying out support for -std=c++29 and the like for targeting the C++29 standard not anticipated for release until around 2029...

FreeBSD Updates Its Graphics Driver Port From Linux 6.12 LTS

Phoronix - Wed, 06/17/2026 - 18:04
As part of improving the experience of FreeBSD on laptops and desktops, FreeBSD developers have updated their drm-kmod port against the state of the Linux 6.12 LTS kernel...

Linux Finally Ends AppleTalk Protocol Support

Phoronix - Wed, 06/17/2026 - 17:40
While the AppleTalk networking protocols were innovative when they first appeared for their plug-and-play capabilities, Apple itself ended their AppleTalk support back in 2009. Now 17 years later, the Linux kernel is ending AppleTalk support due to a recent surge of AI-generated patches...

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