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Intel Thunder Bay Is Officially Canceled, Linux Driver Code To Be Removed

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 March, 2023

I hadn't heard any mentions of Intel's Thunder Bay in quite a while besides the occasional Linux kernel patch while now it has been officially confirmed as a cancelled Intel product and the Linux driver code being worked on the past 2+ years is on the chopping block...

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Codon Looks Very Promising For Super-Fast Python Code

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 March, 2023

While there is Pyston, PyPy, and various other alternative Python implementations being done in the name of performance, Codon is one of the newer ones and is talking up 10~100x faster performance...

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Debian 12 "Bookworm" Enters Its Hard Freeze

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 17 March, 2023

Following last month's soft freeze for Debian 12 "Bookworm", this popular Linux distribution is now in its hard freeze until its release time...

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The First Bits Of Wine's Wayland Driver Were Merged

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March, 2023

The first code has landed into Wine Git as part of the multi-year effort creating a Wayland driver for Wine so that the Windows games/applications running via Wine can enjoy native Wayland support. This isn't yet usable for end-users/gamers but is the early implementation with more parts to follow...

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Steam Deck Goes On Sale For Steam's Spring Sale

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March, 2023

Valve today started their first-ever Steam Spring Sale that runs through next week. In addition to sales on games, this is the first time Valve has offered the Steam Deck at a discounted price...

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Amazon Linux 2023 Reaches GA, Built Atop Fedora

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March, 2023

AWS released Amazon Linux 2023 "AL2023" as the newest version of their in-house Linux distribution that is available to Amazon EC2 customers...

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Linux 6.4 DRM To See New "imx25" Driver, 4K Support For Rockchip Display Driver

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March, 2023

Another set of drm-misc-next patches were submitted today for queuing in DRM-Next until the Linux 6.4 merge window kicks off this spring...

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AMDVLK 2023.Q1.3 Released With Various Fixes, TMZ For RDNA2 & Newer

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March, 2023

It's been nearly one month since AMDVLK 2023.Q1.2 as AMD's latest open-source Vulkan driver code drop while today it was replaced by AMDVLK 2023.Q1.3 as what will likely be their last Vulkan driver update for the quarter...

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Linux Kernel Networking Driver Development Impacted By Russian Sanctions

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 16 March, 2023

The US and western government sanctions around the Russian government and its defense industry/companies due to their war in Ukraine has caused interesting issues in the open-source world. A few days after ipmitool was suspended on GitHub that turned out to be due to the current maintainer's affiliation with a Russian tech company, separately there is now a blocking of Linux kernel contributions from selected Russian developers...