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JetBrains Enabling Wayland Support For IntelliJ-Based IDEs (www.phoronix.com)

JetBrains is working on Wayland support for IntelliJ-based IDEs to enhance the desktop Linux experience as well as for running under Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSLg).

NVIDIA BIOS Signature Lock Finally Broken (www.phoronix.com)

Linux 6.5 Released With AMD P-State EPP Default, USB4 v2, MIDI 2.0 and More Hardware Bits (www.phoronix.com)

Linux 6.5 has many great features from the AMD P-State EPP driver default rather than ACPI CPUFreq for Zen 2 and newer supported AMD Ryzen systems, initial USB4 v2 enablement, initial MIDI 2.0 kernel driver work, more Intel hybrid CPU tuning, and a whole lot more....

Intel Gets Hogwarts Legacy Running On Linux Driver By Pretending Not To Be Intel Graphics (www.phoronix.com)

Mesa Adds GPUVis Integration - GPU Trace Visualizer (www.phoronix.com)

Flatpak Lands Support For Wayland Security Context (www.phoronix.com)

The Flatpak open-source app sandboxing tech has merged support for the Wayland security context protocol.

Ubuntu Desktop "Charting A Course For The Future" With Ubuntu 24.04 LTS Next Year (www.phoronix.com)

AMD Announces The Radeon RX 7700 XT & RX 7800 XT Graphics Cards (www.phoronix.com)

Finally getting some (closer to) mainstream video cards from AMD. Still feels overpriced but a lot better than $750 for a 7900xt.

Coreboot 4.21 Brings More System76 Laptops, Star Labs and MSI Z790-P Support (www.phoronix.com)

Besides all of the Google Chromebook ports, the other standout is seeing all of the new System76 laptops upstreamed in Coreboot. These System76 laptops are already shipping Coreboot out-of-the-box while it’s nice that System76 continues upstreaming these targets for ensuring their longevity and being a good upstream member of...

Good news for AMD Linux users - fTPM RNG will soon be disabled (www.phoronix.com)

cross-posted from: lemmy.world/post/2852886...

RADV Ray-Tracing To Become Much Faster With New Driver Code (www.phoronix.com)

Ryzen 9 7950X Performance With The New AMD P-State Default Of Linux 6.5 (www.phoronix.com)

QEMU 8.1 Released With New PipeWire Audio Backend, Many CPU Improvements (www.phoronix.com)

AMD Color Management Improvements For Linux & The Steam Deck Continue (www.phoronix.com)

Wine 8.14 Released Following Summer Holiday (www.phoronix.com)

Linux 6.6 To Support Rumble / Force Feedback On Google Stadia Controllers (www.phoronix.com)

Distrobox Adds Support For ChromeOS (www.phoronix.com)

XWayland 23.2 Released With Tearing Control, Resizable Rootful, EI Support (www.phoronix.com)

tl;dr support for disabling VSync on Wayland with X11 apps (most games)

Devuan 5.0 Released For Debian 12 Without systemd (www.phoronix.com)

AMD P-State Preferred Core Handling Being Enabled For Linux (www.phoronix.com)

AMD CPUs since the Ryzen 3000 series (Zen 2) have had the notion of “preferred cores” that via ACPI CPPC are communicated to the OS and could be shown under Windows with the likes of AMD Ryzen Master. Now we have AMD Linux engineers working on properly leveraging the “preferred cores” handling for the modern AMD P-State...