… With Linux 7.1-rc2 some of the changes that crossed my radar include an audio fix for the Steam Deck OLED after the mainline kernel had broken audio support for the Steam Deck OLED handheld the past two years Valve's downstream kernel was carrying its own patch/workaround as were other handheld-foc… …
… Vulkan SC SDK Released For Safety-Critical Graphics / Compute VKD3D-Proton 3.0.1 Brings More Improvements For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan Vulkan 1.4.350 Released With Three New Extensions Vulkan 1.4.349 Released With Data Graph Optical Flow Extension Vulkan 1.4.348 Ships Four New Extensions - Including O…
… Linux Support Coming For The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II: A $160 High-End Gaming Controller Proton 11.0 Beta 2 Updates VKD3D-Proton D7VK v1.8 Continues Improving Legacy Direct3D Atop The Vulkan API Godot 4.7 Reaches Beta With HDR Output, Ray-Tracing Improvements & Editor Enhancements Godot 4.7 Will Finally…
… Devuan Developer Working On Reviving GTK2 With Modern Fixes Sovereign Tech Agency Launches New Initiative To Help Open Standards 7-Zip 26.01 Now Allows Making Use Of Huge Pages On Linux For Faster Compression LACT 0.9 Released With UI Updates, Voltage-Frequency Curve Editor For NVIDIA KMSCON Contin…
… Longtime Leading AMD Linux GPU Driver Developer Now Working For Valve Steam Controller Mapping Merged To SDL Library SDL Library Adds Support For The New Steam Controller Without Depending On Steam Valve's Steam Controller Now Shipping Linux 7.1 Fixes Audio For The Steam Deck OLED After Being Broke…
… KDE Plasma 6.7 To Provide A Much Better Experience For CPU-Based Rendering KDE Linux Now Using KMSCON For A Better VT Console Experience KDE Plasma 6.6.5 Fixes Some NVIDIA Performance Issues, More Features Land For Plasma 6.7 KDE Plasma 6.7 Enables Overlay Planes For Intel Graphics, More Performanc…
… Wayland Developers Target June For Weston 16 Release WayVNC 0.10 Released For Advancing This Leading VNC Server For Wayland XWayland 24.1.11 Brings Crash Fixes Niri 26.04 Wayland Compositor Adds Much Sought After Blur Support Cage 0.3 Released With New Wayland Protocol Support Mir-Based Miracle-WM …
… FreeBSD 15.1 Beta Released For Early Testing Servo Browser Engine Seeing Progress On FreeBSD Support FreeBSD Working On Intel FRED Support, Laptop Improvements Continue GhostBSD 26.1 Now Based On FreeBSD 15.0, Switches to XLibre X Server FreeBSD Aims To Better Track Laptop Hardware That Works Or Do…
… PCIe 8.0 Spec Draft 0.5 Released For 1TB/s Bi-Directional x16 Bandwidth OpenCL 3.1 Released To Bolster AI & HPC Workloads CPPC v4 Support Being Worked On NVIDIA For The Linux ACPI Driver Arm & Linaro Launch New "CoreCollective" Consortium - With Backing From AMD & Others Linux Begins Seeing Early P…