Monthly News – December 2024
Hi everyone, The BETA phase for Linux Mint 22.1 is now over. 115 reports were received and many bugs were fixed. Many thanks for your help during this beta-test! After a few days of QA testing we’ll be ready to publish the stable release. The new fea...
Intel Xe Driver Adding "RPa" Frequency Reporting With Linux 6.14
This week Intel engineers sent out a number of kernel graphics driver pull requests of new code for the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle. In addition to the UHBR for Panther Lake and lower Alchemist GPU power use with whitelisted GPUs and fixing old Intel Has...
Sony Proposes Changing LLVM Clang Default To C++20 Mode
Sony engineers are proposing that the LLVM Clang compiler changes its default C++ mode from C++17 to C++20. This coincides with Sony planning to soon upgrade their PlayStation 5 compiler downstream to C++20 by default...
Linux Foundation & Google Form New Group to Manage Chromium
Google is teaming up with the Linux Foundation, Microsoft, Meta, and Opera to form a new Supporters of Chromium-Based Browsers group. Members of the group, managed by the Linux Foundation, will work together, pool resources, talent, time, and expertise...
Servo Browser Engine Adds Dark Mode, Some XPath Support
The Servo open-source web browser layout engine project has published their newest monthly recap to highlight the progress they made during December 2024. They ended the year on a high note with getting dark mode support working and other features wire...
