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      Slackware-Based Zenwalk ISOs Updated With Linux 7.1, Flatpak Integrated + Xfce 4.20

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 hours ago

    It's been over four years since the original release of Zenwalk 15.0 while released today is a new Zenwalk Current Milestone snapshot. This Slackware-based Linux distribution with a long history has an exciting update out for testing this weekend...
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      Ikey Doherty Plans To Show How To "Properly" Build A Modern Linux Distro

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 6 hours ago

    Ikey Doherty is back in the Linux distribution space. Sort of. Ikey Doherty who was the founder of the Solus Linux distribution as well as Serpent OS (now AerynOS) as well as having been employed by Intel on their Clear Linux team is back at it again in the Linux space...
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      NVIDIA Posts vGPU Manager & VFIO Variant Driver For Open-Source Nova

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 9 hours ago

    NVIDIA continues building out more functionality around the open-source, upstream Nova kernel graphics driver within the Linux kernel. Making it out to the mailing list this Saturday is a set of 13 patches for introducing a NVIDIA vGPU manager and VFIO variant driver...
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      Nouveau Lands Display Fixes For NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs As It Works Toward HDMI 2.1

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    This week's Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) fixes that were merged ahead of Sunday's Linux 7.3-rc2 release contain a number of fixes to the open-source Nouveau driver's display support for current-generation NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs...
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      Linux Patches Posted For Initial Enablement Of The Apple A18 Pro + MacBook Neo

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    In addition to Linux developers focused on Apple Silicon being busy enabling functionality for the M3 and newer SoCs under the Linux kernel, there are also developers working on enabling the A18 Pro SoC used by the new, budget-friendly MacBook Neo laptop. Patches were posted this week for initial enablement of the A18 Pro and the MacBook Neo Device Tree... But even with these patches, the Linux support is still severely limited for now...
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      AMD Working To "Push Rust Deep Into The GPU Stack"

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 13 hours ago

    AMD is building out what they are describing as an "elite" team of developers for driving Rust code "deep into the GPU stack" from firmware to drivers, shader compilers, and other GPU software in Rust...
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      GNOME Stakeholders Discussing RFC Process For Solving Major Technical Changes

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 14 hours ago

    GNOME has been working to establish a formal request for comments (RFC) process for solving major technical questions and changes moving forward. A drafted RFC is now under discussion by GNOME stakeholders for moving this process forward...
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      KDE Plasma 6.8 Lands Windows-Like Auto-Scrolling, Lower vRAM Usage For Breeze Theme

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    It's been an exciting start to the month of September for KDE Plasma developers with continuing to land last minute improvements for Plasma 6.8 ahead of its official release in mid-October...
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      Wine 11.17 Released With Initial Support For Display Mode Emulation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Wine 11.17 is out today as the newest bi-weekly feature development release for this software enabling Windows games and apps to run on Linux...