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Linux 6.17 Adds Support For Logitech G PRO 2 LIGHTSPEED, Wacom Art Pen 2 & More

Phoronix - Sun, 08/31/2025 - 08:48
This week's round of HID subsystem "fixes" for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel include adding a number of new device IDs and other alterations for supporting new hardware...

Wayfire 0.10 Wayland Compositor Brings Experimental Vulkan Rendering

Phoronix - Sat, 08/30/2025 - 22:45
Wayfire 0.10 was released this week and its integration with the underlying wlroots rendering code has been overhauled. In turn this opens up Wayfire to having experimental support for rendering using the Vulkan API...

bsd-user-4-linux Lets FreeBSD Binaries Run Unmodified On Linux

Phoronix - Sat, 08/30/2025 - 21:39
The FreeBSD project on Friday published their quarterly status report to highlight all of the interesting changes for Q2'2025. Among the recent FreeBSD efforts have been on "bsd-user-4-linux" to allow FreeBSD binaries to run unmodified on Linux systems. FreeBSD is also coming up with a policy around AI/LLM usage for contributing to the project. Additionally, Sylve is taking shape as a new web-based unified system management platform for FreeBSD systems...

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