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ARCTIC's Fan Controller Driver For Linux Being Dual-Licensed With BSD-2-Clause
20+ hour, 11+ min ago (267+ words) Earlier this year ARCTIC published a fan controller driver for Linux. Besides being rare for an enthusiast-oriented company to publish a Linux driver themselves where typically it's left up to the open-source community for driver support for such peripherals, it…...
Intel Reverses Decision To Cancel Their Open-Source Font Project
1+ day, 17+ hour ago (218+ words) Amid Intel cutting back on open-source projects over the past two years as cost cutting measures at the company, their latest open-source project on the chopping block was the peculiar font they developed a few years back. The project was…...
GTK 4.24 Released With Better Fractional Scaling, More Precise GDK Frame-Clock
1+ day, 20+ hour ago (201+ words) GTK 4.24 released on Friday as the newest stable feature release to the GTK4 toolkit. It's quite a nice update to GTK4 for pairing with next week's GNOME 51 desktop release... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage…...
Patches Ready For AMDGPU HDMI 2.1 Enabled By Default With Linux 7.4 With FreeSync, VRR & ALLM
2+ day, 20+ hour ago (254+ words) Linux 7.4 is now set to reach the elusive milestone of HDMI 2.1 support for the AMDGPU kernel graphics driver. After the HDMI Forum previously rejected HDMI 2.1 for the AMDGPU open-source driver implementation going back years, earlier this year something changed -- widely…...
CachyOS vs. Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 26.04 LTS On Intel Wildcat Lake + 8GB RAM
2+ day, 15+ hour ago (377+ words) Often times when testing different Linux distributions or comparing Windows vs. Linux it's on leading flagship desktop or server hardware, but today we are looking at the Ubuntu vs. CachyOS vs. Windows performance at the opposite end of the spectrum....
Mesa 26.3 RADV + RadeonSI Ready With DRM Format Modifiers For Older AMD GPUs
3+ day, 9+ hour ago (186+ words) Phoronix - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals Mesa 26.3 RADV + RadeonSI Ready With DRM Format Modifiers For Older AMD GPUs Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded…...
Intel BFF Driver Slated For Linux 7.4 Introduction
3+ day, 18+ hour ago (212+ words) Last month I covered Intel posting a new driver named "BFF" for the Linux kernel. This BFF driver is for a new hardware feature debuting with next-gen Diamond Rapids processors for better dealing with aging CPU silicon where some bits…...
NVIDIA NVK Driver Lands Improvement To Help With Valve's Gamescope
3+ day, 19+ hour ago (214+ words) Merged today for next quarter's Mesa 26.3 release is an improvement for the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver paired with the Nouveau kernel driver. This latest NVK improvement benefits usage of Valve's Gamescope micro-compositor and should help with performance during game…...
GNOME 51 Adds Support For Custom Pointer Acceleration Profiles
3+ day, 20+ hour ago (195+ words) As a last minute change ahead of next week's GNOME 51 desktop release, changes to Mutter and gsettings-desktop-schemas have now landed for supporting custom pointer acceleration profiles... - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating…...
COSMIC Epoch 1.8 Provides Latest Fixes & Minor Improvements For This Rust Desktop
3+ day, 21+ hour ago (184+ words) Phoronix - Categories Computers Display Drivers Graphics Cards Linux Gaming Memory Motherboards Processors Software Storage Operating Systems Peripherals COSMIC Epoch 1.8 Provides Latest Fixes & Minor Improvements For This Rust Desktop Michael Larabel is the principal author of Phoronix.com and founded the…...