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      Linux 7.1 Fixes Audio For The Steam Deck OLED After Being Broken 2 Years On The Upstream Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 0:33

    It turns out the Steam Deck OLED gaming handheld has not had working audio support with the mainline (upstream) Linux kernel since a change in late 2023 that was merged for Linux 6.8. There was an AMD ASoC audio change that inadvertently broke audio support for the Steam Deck OLED handheld but not affecting the original LCD model. Valve's downstream Steam OS kernel has compensated for this known breakage and other distributions targeting the Steam Deck OLED have carried the patch, but now there is a proper solution upstream ahead of Linux 7.1-rc2...
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      FUSEX File-System Being Developed For Extended/Experimental Features

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 10 hours ago

    Miklos Szeredi of Red Hat has been developing the FUSEX file-system as an extended/experimental area for File-System in User-Space "FUSE" development...
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      AMD's GAIA Defaults To Better Model, Continued Improvements For Local AI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 12 hours ago

    AMD software engineers on Friday released a new version of GAIA "Generative AI Is Awesome" as their open-source software for Windows and Linux leveraging the Lemonade SDK and aiming to make it easy to build AI agents on your PC with all local AI processing across AMD's CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs...
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      Linux 7.1-rc2 Bringing Some More Improvements/Fixes For Older AMD GPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    Merged on Friday ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc2 kernel release due out tomorrow were this week's batch of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics / display / accelerator driver fixes...
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      KDE Linux Now Using KMSCON For A Better VT Console Experience

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 15 hours ago

    KDE Linux continues making progress as the in-house Linux distribution to best showcase the latest KDE Plasma desktop innovations...
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      VideoLAN Publishes Dav2d For Open-Source AV2 Decoder

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    While the Alliance For Open Media had been aiming for the AV2 release by the end of 2025, as of right now the AV2 specification remains in a draft status. VideoLAN developers though for months have already been working on dav2d as an open-source AV2 decoder and that code was published this weekend...
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      FreeBSD 15.1 Beta Released For Early Testing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    Following last year's release of FreeBSD 15.0, FreeBSD 15.1 is working its way toward release release in June. For kicking off the release dance, FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 1 is available today for testing...
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      NVIDIA Ships Fixes For Descriptor Heaps, More Vulkan Performance Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 hours ago

    NVIDIA on Friday released the 595.44.06 beta driver build as their newest Vulkan developer beta for Linux. This was joined by the NVIDIA 595.46 Windows Vulkan beta and there are performance improvements in tow and more work on their descriptor heaps support...
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      KDE Plasma 6.6.5 Fixes Some NVIDIA Performance Issues, More Features Land For Plasma 6.7

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 hours ago

    We are now just one month out from the planned release of Plasma 6.7 in mid-June. Feature activity continues to be brisk for Plasma 6.7 while KDE developers also continue landing more fixes for the current Plasma 6.6 series...