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Debian Likely Moving Away From i386 In The Near Future

Phoronix - Sun, 12/17/2023 - 02:50
There was recently a mini DebConf in Cambridge where the Debian GNU/Linux release team held a spring and figured out some items moving forward, including the dim future for i386 moving forward...

xf86-video-modesetting Driver Optimization Helps Conserve Intel Power Consumption

Phoronix - Sat, 12/16/2023 - 21:52
A change merged to the X.Org Server Git for the generic xf86-video-modesetting DDX driver is helping conserve some power consumption at least for Intel graphics by determining the optimal hardware cursor size...

AMD Stages The Radeon Graphics Color Management Code For Linux 6.8

Phoronix - Sat, 12/16/2023 - 19:58
On Friday in addition to Intel submitting their new Xe kernel graphics driver to DRM-Next ahead of Linux 6.8, the red team sent in their latest AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver changes ahead of this next kernel cycle. Exciting on the AMD side is landing the AMD color management properties support! But on the downside, it's compile-time disabled for the time being...

Manjaro 23.1 Released With Linux 6.6 LTS, Pipewire 1.0 & Desktop Updates

Phoronix - Sat, 12/16/2023 - 19:45
Manjaro 23.1 was released overnight as the newest version of this popular Arch Linux based desktop Linux distribution...

Box64 v0.2.6 Brings Support For More CPU Extensions, Better Syscall Emulation

Phoronix - Sat, 12/16/2023 - 19:35
Box64 and Box86 are out with new releases this weekend for these open-source projects allowing x86_64 and x86 binaries to run on ARM64 Linux systems...

KDE Receives Many Bug Fixes Ahead Of Christmas

Phoronix - Sat, 12/16/2023 - 18:59
KDE developers remain very busy working toward the release of the Plasma 6 desktop in late February...

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