Linux Preparing Support For The RISC-V Framework Laptop 13
Back in June it was teased that Framework Computer in collaboration with DeepComputing would be releasing a RISC-V motherboard for the Framework Laptop 13. That RISC-V laptop motherboard has yet to be officially released but Linux kernel patches were p...
Servo Browser Engine Restores Firefox Devtools Support
The Servo open-source browser layout engine has supported making use of the Firefox Devtools code for the provided web developer tools such as the HTML web page inspector and browser console. But that support had fallen into disrepair. Fortunately, tha...
FFmpeg Merges Implicit DRM Synchronization For Vulkan
Following Vulkan Video H.264/H.265 video encoder support being merged into the FFmpeg library, the latest improvement for this open-source multimedia API when leveraging Vulkan is implicit DRM synchronization...
Bcachefs Hopes To Remove "EXPERIMENTAL" Flag In The Next Year
Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet has submitted all of the Bcachefs file-system feature patches for the Linux 6.12 kernel merge window. In his pull request he also lays out his ambitions to remove the "EXPERIMENTAL" flag from Bcachefs within the ...
Updated XZ Code Lands In Linux 6.12
The kernel patches collected by Andrew Morton were upstreamed today for the Linux 6.12 kernel. Among those changes are pulling in the updated XZ Embedded code...
Phoronix Premium Deal For Oktoberfest 2024
While there sadly the previously-annual Phoronix meet-up at Oktoberfest in Munich remains defunct, in honor of Oktoberfest 2024 kicking off today in Munich, it's time for the annual Phoronix Premium special. With the Oktoberfest sale you can go ad-free...
SDL Now Prefers Vulkan Over Direct3D 12 On Windows
The SDL abstraction library commonly used by cross-platform games now prefers using Vulkan on Windows as its ideal graphics API. Direct3D 12 has been demoted lower in priority compared to Vulkan for this Simple DirectMedia Layer...