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Linux 6.15 Intel Xe Driver Enabling PXP HWDRM, Survivability Mode & GPU + VRAM Temperatures
Complementing yesterday's initial set of Intel graphics driver feature patches planned for Linux 6.15, a drm-xe-next pull request was also submitted to DRM-Next containing a lot of new feature code for the modern Xe kernel Direct Rendering Manager driv...
2025-02-25 06:27
GNOME 48 Mutter Merges Wayland's wp_color_management_v1 Support
As an exciting late addition to the GNOME 48 codebase ahead of its stable release in mid-March, the Wayland color management "wp_color_management_v1" protocol support has been merged!..
2025-02-25 06:07
MythTV 35 Released For This Once Widely-Used Open-Source DVR/PVR Software
The MythTV open-source project is now 22 years old for being this PVR/DVR software for TVs and home theaters. While PVRs/DVRs aren't nearly as popular as they were in the pre Internet streaming era, MythTV continues forging ahead and MythTV 35 is now a...
2025-02-25 05:53
Plank Reloaded is a Desktop Dock App for Cinnamon
At one time, Linux dock apps were a plentiful species, with innovative ‘panel painters’ like GNOME Do/Docky to unashamed bling-kings AWN, DockBarX and Cairo Dock. Yet it was the modest Plank which stayed the course and outlived them. Thing is, the ...
2025-02-25 02:56
Plank Reloaded: Desktop Dock App for Cinnamon
At one time, Linux dock apps were a plentiful species, with innovative ‘panel painters’ like GNOME Do/Docky to unashamed bling-kings AWN, DockBarX and Cairo Dock. Yet it was the modest Plank which stayed the course and outlived them. Thing is, the ...
2025-02-25 02:56
Armbian 25.2 Released with Support for New Boards, Linux 6.12 LTS, and More
Armbian 25.2 distribution for ARM devices is now available for download with support for new boards, Linux kernel 6.12 LTS, as well as various improvements. Here’s what’s new! The post Armbian 25.2 Released with Support for New Boards, Linux 6.12 L...
2025-02-24 19:39
Canonical at Embedded World 2025
Embedded World is just around the corner; 11 to 13 March.  Featuring:  Embedded World is the essential global gathering for the embedded community.  We invite you to visit Booth 4-160 in Hall 4 to discover how Canonical, the publisher of Ubuntu, can...
2025-02-24 18:37
Armbian 25.2 Released With New Boards Supported, Kernel Upgrades
Armbian 25.2 is now available as the newest feature release for this Debian-based Linux distribution focused on providing a great ARM experience as well as a growing number of RISC-V boards...
2025-02-24 17:05
The Quiet Revolution: AI, Critical Thinking, and a Home for Technical Humanities
I spent over a decade teaching college English before moving into tech, so I’ve always been fascinated by how we reason. In literary analysis, we dissect a text’s assumptions, language, and context. We dig into literature, philosophy, and rhetoric...
2025-02-24 15:08
Canonical Rolling Out Improved CLA Process For Ubuntu Contributions
Canonical's Contributor License Agreement (CLA) used for various projects they develop around Ubuntu Linux isn't changing itself, but the process for signing the CLA is being improved upon...
2025-02-24 14:17
Intel Linux Driver Preparing VRSR Support For Battlemage GPUs
To help with idle/suspend scenarios use for Intel Arc B-Series "Battlemage" graphics processors, a set of patches were posted today for the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver for enabling VRAM Self Refresh "VRSR" support...
2025-02-24 13:18
Jolla Releases Sailfish OS 5.0 With WireGuard VPN, Updated Android Compatibility
For those intrigued by Jolla's Linux-based Sailfish OS mobile phone operating system, Sailfish OS 5.0 is officially out today as the latest iteration of this software stack...
2025-02-24 12:00
Intel Announces Xeon 6500P + Xeon 6700P Processors
After launching the Intel Xeon 6900P "Granite Rapids" processors last September, today Intel is expanding the family with the launch of the Xeon 6500P and Xeon 6700P server processors.
2025-02-24 11:00
Intel Announces Xeon 6300 Series - Tops Out At 8-Core Xeon 6369P For $545 USD
In addition to announcing the Xeon 6500P and Xeon 6700P processors along with the Xeon 6 SoC (Granite Rapids D), the Xeon 6300 series are also making a quiet debut today. The Xeon 6300 series is in effect the continuation of the Xeon E series but with ...
2025-02-24 11:00
Intel Preps New Performance Optimizations & Features For Linux 6.15 Graphics Driver
In addition to AMD beginning to queue graphics driver improvements for Linux 6.15, Intel open-source engineers are doing the same and this morning sent out their initial feature pull request to DRM-Next of the i915/Xe kernel graphics/display driver imp...
2025-02-24 10:14
MCTP-Over-USB Driver Slated For Linux 6.15
A new driver planned to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle is an implementation of MCTP over USB as defined by the DMTF standard DSP0283...
2025-02-24 08:52
Years In The Making, Intel Timed I/O "TIO" Looks To Finally Land In Linux 6.15
Intel Timed I/O "TIO" has been present on Intel processors going back to 2019 and the Linux driver support has been worked on for several years, but finally this year with the upcoming Linux 6.15 cycle is this Intel Timed I/O code expected to be merged...
2025-02-24 06:29
Linux's libinput Input Library Finally Supports 3-Finger Dragging
Libinput as the open-source input handling library used by the modern Linux desktop both by Wayland compositors and the X.Org Server now has support for three-finger dragging...
2025-02-24 06:07
Intel Vulkan Linux Driver Now Enables VK_EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64
The newest feature merged this weekend to Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan driver for Linux systems is support for the VK_EXT_shader_image_atomic_int64 extension...
2025-02-24 06:00
KiCad 9.0 Released For Advancing Open-Source EDA
KiCad 9.0 is now available as the newest version of this leading open-source Electronics Design Automation (EDA) suite that can rival some proprietary solutions for designing PCBs and other electronic hardware...
2025-02-24 00:00