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      Linux 6.3.9 Released With Fix For Nasty Nouveau Issue

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 June, 2023

    For those making use of the current Linux 6.3 stable series, Linux 6.3.9 is out today and it's particularly important if you make use of the open-source NVIDIA "Nouveau" kernel graphics driver...
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      Linux Mint 21.2 Promoted To Beta With Desktop Improvements, HEIF & AVIF Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 June, 2023

    Linux Mint as the popular desktop Linux distribution derived from Ubuntu LTS releases and known for their Cinnamon desktop is out today with their 21.2 "Victoria" beta release for testing...
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      Red Hat Now Limiting RHEL Sources To CentOS Stream

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 June, 2023

    Red Hat announced today that CentOS Stream will now be the sole repository for public RHEL-related source code releases...
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      Intel Continues Working On IAA Crypto Compression Driver For Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 June, 2023

    Introduced with 4th Gen Xeon Scalable "Sapphire Rapids" processors are various new accelerators available on select SKUs or via the Intel On Demand offering. One of the initial challenges there though is the early accelerator software support limitations and many upstream open-source (or even just widespread) software not yet enabled to make use of these new accelerators. One of the improvements on that front has been Intel engineers working on an IAA crypto compression driver for the kernel so that the In-Memory Analytics Accelerator can be transparently accessible to kernel features making use of the crypto API...
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      GCC Adopts A Code of Conduct

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 June, 2023

    While a few years late compared to many other open-source projects adopting a Code of Conduct, the GCC Steering Committee has now adopted a Code of Conduct "CoC" for this open-source compiler project...
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      Valve Still Making RADV Driver Improvements To AMD GCN 1.0 Era Hardware

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 June, 2023

    On a quest toward trying to get the game Halo Infinite running under Linux via Steam Play (Proton) with AMD GFX6 / GCN 1.0 era graphics processors, Valve's prolific open-source driver contributor Samuel Pitoiset has added VK_NV_device_generated_commands support for these original Radeon GCN GPUs...
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      SDL2 Now Transitioning To Maintenance Mode

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 June, 2023

    With today's release of SDL 2.28 it also marks the SDL2 library entering maintenance mode for this open-source software that's relied upon by Valve and many cross-platform games...
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      Linux 6.5 Slated To Add Provisioning Primitives For Thinly Provisioned Storage

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 June, 2023

    Another feature scheduled to be sent in for the upcoming Linux 6.5 kernel merge window is introducing support for provisioning primitives for thinly provisioned storage with the Device Mapper (DM) code...
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      Linux 6.5 Adding Qualcomm Adreno 690 Open-Source GPU Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 20 June, 2023

    The upcoming Linux 6.5 kernel is poised to add support for Qualcomm's Adreno 690 GPU to the open-source MSM kernel graphics/display driver. The A690 is notably used by the Snapdragon 8cx Gen 3 (SC8280XP) platform that in turn is what's found inside the Lenovo ThinkPad X13s laptop and other hardware...