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Razer Wolverine V2 Controller Support Coming With Linux 6.7

Phoronix - Sat, 12/23/2023 - 19:20
With a set of input driver patches set to be merged today for the Linux 6.7-rc6 kernel, the XPad driver is adding support for Razer's Wolverine V2 Xbox controller...

KDE Developers Prepare For Christmas With More Bug Fixes & Qt 6 Porting

Phoronix - Sat, 12/23/2023 - 18:52
This week brought the second beta of KDE Plasma 6.0 along with KDE Gear and KDE Frameworks updates too. The holidays haven't resulted in KDE development slowing down too much with still a number of bug fixes being merged this week and other minor enhancements...

Lab Wayland Compositor 0.7 Released - Ported To wlroots 0.17

Phoronix - Sat, 12/23/2023 - 18:35
Lab Wayland Compositor (labwc) is out with a new version ahead of Christmas for this wlroots-based window-stacking compositor that is inspired by the Openbox window manager...

Autoconf 2.72 Released With C23 Support, New Year 2038 Safety Option

Phoronix - Sat, 12/23/2023 - 13:00
For those still relying on GNU Autoconf for generating configure scripts for building/installing/packaging software rather than more modern alternatives like CMake and Meson, Autoconf 2.72 is out today as a nice holiday treat...

Wine 9.0-rc3 Released With 35 Fixes In Total, Some Wayland Driver Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 12/23/2023 - 06:15
The third weekly release candidate of Wine 9.0 is now available for this open-source software that allows running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms...

Intel Is Hosting An Open-Source Community Survey For Developers

Phoronix - Sat, 12/23/2023 - 02:06
In helping to guide Intel's open-source interests in 2024, the company is hosting an Open-Source Community Survey. Intel is looking for feedback from open-source developers and other community stakeholders about your principal interests and concerns...

Wayland-Proxy Load Balancer Helping Firefox Cope With Wayland Issues

Phoronix - Sat, 12/23/2023 - 00:00
With this week's release of Firefox 121, Wayland is being used by default when encountering a native Wayland desktop. Shipping as part of Firefox 121 is wayland-proxy as a C++ module to serve as a Wayland proxy load balancer...

Trying Out & Benchmarking The New Experimental Intel Xe Linux Graphics Driver

Phoronix - Fri, 12/22/2023 - 22:10
One of the new features to look forward to with the upcoming Linux 6.8 kernel cycle is the merging of the experimental "Xe" Intel kernel graphics driver. This driver has been in development for quite a while but has reached the state now at which Intel is comfortable with developing it further while in the mainline kernel tree.

ASRock Launches AI QuickSet Software For Linux

Phoronix - Fri, 12/22/2023 - 19:30
Here's a pleasant Christmas present and one I certainly wasn't expecting... Motherboard manufacturer ASRock has announced software for Linux! Well, not any motherboard management/configuration software for their desktop motherboards or anything like that but rather a Linux port of their AI QuickSet software that is intended to help users "experience AI in one click."..

TUXEDO Computers Updates Its Linux Control Center Software

Phoronix - Fri, 12/22/2023 - 19:18
Bavarian Linux PC vendor TUXEDO Computers has announced TUXEDO Control Center 2.1 as their newest update to this software for managing your notebook's vitals from the Linux desktop...

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