Intel Battlemage Battles More Linux 6.12 Kernel Graphics Driver Changes Following the pull request from earlier this week that enables Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake and Battlemage graphics by default for Linux 6.12, a final set of feature updates for the Intel kernel graphics driver have been submitted ahead of this next kernel cycle... image
Vulkan 1.3.295 Released With Compute Shader Derivatives Extension Following last week's Vulkan 1.3.294 with pipeline binary extension, Vulkan 1.3.295 is out today and it too introduces a prominent new extension... image
Microsoft Further Improves D3D12 Video Acceleration In Mesa Microsoft engineers continue contributing to the open-source Mesa graphics driver code for benefiting Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) usage and other related use atop Windows 11. The latest contribution to Mesa is wiring up direct DPB management for the D3D12 video acceleration code... image
GNU Screen 5.0 Released With Rewritten Authentication Mechanism The very useful GNU Screen program for multiplexing terminals between processes is out with a shiny new feature release... image
LinkedIn Migrates Their Servers From CentOS To Azure Linux LinkedIn has replaced CentOS as their default server operating system choice with Azure Linux to power all of their server needs... image
Cemu 2.1 Emulator Released With Flatpaks & AppImage For Linux, Initial Wayland Support Cemu is the Wii U emulator that went open-source and began building on Linux two years ago. Since then they've continued building up their Linux support and out today is the Cemu 2.1 emulator release with even better Linux support... image
GNU DDD 3.4.1 Released As GUI Front-End To GDB As the first new release in more than one year, GNU DDD 3.4.1 is now available as a GUI front-end to the GNU Debugger (GDB)... image
KDE Lands Per-Monitor Brightness Controls & Better KWin HDR Tone Mapping Ahead of the KDE Plasma 6.2 soft feature freeze happening next week, KDE developers have been preparing some last minut features for the desktop... image
AMD Prepares Sound Open Firmware Driver For ACP7.0 Hardware As part of catering to Google requirements around Google Chromebooks, AMD has been supporting Sound Open Firmware as the Intel-initiated open-source project across their APUs/SoCs. Sent out today was the patch for enabling ACP 7.0 SOF support for their newest SoCs like Strix Point to have Sound Open Firmware support... image
Several Newer Gaming Handheld Devices To See Linux Sensor Monitoring Support The upstream Linux "oxp-sensors" driver began as a driver for supporting the sensors on the OneXPlayer handheld. With time this driver has been extended to support more handheld gaming consoles and a new patch enables support for several more devices... image