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      Intel Wiring Up DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.1 Support For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 August, 2023

    Last year the DisplayPort 2.1 specification was published and now Intel's open-source Linux engineers are working on adding support to the kernel for handling of the DisplayPort Alternate Mode 2.1 support for that DP operation over USB Type-C connections...
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      AMD Working On ACPI PHAT Support For Linux To Expose Health-Related Telemetry

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 August, 2023

    One of the new Linux kernel patch series out of AMD this week is for exposing ACPI PHAT, the Platform Health Assessment Table...
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      System76 COSMIC Desktop Ironing Out Support For Themes, Application API

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 August, 2023

    While KDE developers are busy working on Plasma 6, System76's software developers are busy working on their new Rust-based "COSMIC" desktop environment. System76 on Friday published a new blog post outlining their efforts in recent weeks...
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      KDE Apps Now Support QOI Images, Plasma 6 Development Continues

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 August, 2023

    KDE developers continue to be quite busy working on Plasma 6 development and related enhancements to this popular open-source desktop environment...
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      Initial Benchmarks Of The "NVK" Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 August, 2023

    With the in-development NVK driver merged for Mesa 23.3 to provide open-source NVIDIA Vulkan API support when paired with the Nouveau kernel driver and the necessary Nouveau kernel driver improvements coming with Linux 6.6 for supporting this driver, Phoronix readers have been eager for some benchmarks... Well, here are some benchmarks on the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 and RTX 30 series when comparing the latest NVK+Nouveau code compared to the proprietary NVIDIA Linux graphics driver stack.
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      Linux 6.4.10 & LTS Kernels Updated For AMD Zen 1 Divide By Zero Bug

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 August, 2023

    Following the new Linux stable kernels this week to quickly mitigate the Intel Downfall and AMD Inception vulnerabilities, today brings another set of stable point releases. Among the fixes to be picked up since Tuesday is the other AMD fix for the week of a Zen 1 bug that could leak data following a divide by zero operation...
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      Linux 6.6 To Finish Gutting Wireless USB & UWB

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 August, 2023

    The upcoming Linux 6.6 kernel will finish removing old remnants of Wireless USB support...
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      Haiku OS Support Upstreamed Into GCC Compiler

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 August, 2023

    Developers of the BeOS-inspired Haiku operating system have long been carrying patches for supporting the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) on their platform while this week the code was upstreamed for GCC 14...
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      Intel Meteor Lake Graphics Still Being Treated As Experimental With Linux 6.6

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 11 August, 2023

    Sent out today was the drm-intel-gt-next and drm-intel-next pull requests of the latest Intel graphics driver feature code for DRM-Next to then be merged for the upcoming Linux 6.6 cycle. Both pull requests indicate these are the last planned feature updates ahead of Linux 6.6 but what's interesting is that with the latest code upcoming Meteor Lake graphics are still being treated as experimental...