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Linux Driver Posted For The EC Found On Most Snapdragon X1 Laptops

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 December, 2024

For those interested in making use of Linux on the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops that have been appearing since earlier this year, there's a new embedded controller (EC) driver posted for the Linux kernel for this EC that's found on most of the X1 laptop models...

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SysVinit 3.12 Brings Fixes & Better Documentation For Christmas

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 December, 2024

For devoted SysVinit users trying to avoid systemd still on Linux systems in 2025, SysVinit 3.12 has been released for the holidays with the latest fixes to this open-source init system...

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Flatpak XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.19.1 Brings USB Portal & Notification v2 Portal

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 22 December, 2024

Debuting as a new development release today was XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.19.1 as this portal front-end service for Flatpak sandboxed apps and other desktop containment frameworks. The XDG-Desktop-Portal 1.19.1 milestone is exposing new and expanded portal capabilities for dealing with various hardware devices and APIs...

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Darktable 5.0 Released With Many UI/UX Improvements

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 December, 2024

In time for editing any end-of-year/holiday photos, Darktable 5.0 is out today as a major update to this open-source RAW photography workflow application...

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CachyOS Update Now Uses AutoFDO-Optimized Kernel, Rusticl Driver

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 December, 2024

The CachyOS December 2024 update is out today as the newest monthly release to this performance-optimized, Arch Linux based operating system...

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Raspberry Pi HEVC Decoder Driver Posted For Linux Kernel Review

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 December, 2024

The latest work that Raspberry Pi is working to upstream to the mainline Linux kernel is a HEVC/H.265 video decode driver that works on Raspberry Pi 4 and Raspberry Pi 5 single board computers...

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Curl Drops Support For Hyper Rust HTTP Backend Citing Little Demand

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 December, 2024

The widely-used Curl project has removed support for its Rust-written Hyper HTTP back-end that they were experimentally shipping for several years. The removal of this Rust back-end comes from having little end-user and developer interest in this portion of the code...

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AdaptiveCpp 24.10 Delivers More Performance Optimizations

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 December, 2024

AdaptiveCpp 24.10 is out today as this implementation of SYCL and C++ standard parallelism for CPUs and GPUs across hardware vendors. This compiler for C++ heterogeneous programming models has tacked on more features and additional performance optimizations with this update...

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GNOME User Sharing Ported From C To Rust, libadwaita Adds Adaptive Preview Mode

news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 21 December, 2024

It's not only KDE seeing nice improvements ahead of the holidays but GNOME developers were also busy this week preparing new improvements to their open-source desktop stack. There's been some rather exciting changes on the GNOME front as we prepare to cap off the year...