Plasma 6 is out, and we've been giving it a go. What's new, our thoughts, and the lessons other desktops should learn.
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- HDMI Forum Rejects Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Driver Support Sought By AMD — The HDMI Forum has rejected our proposal unfortunately. At this time an open source HDMI 2.1 implementation is not possible without running afoul of the HDMI Forum requirements.
- NVK is now ready for prime time — Today, I'm proud to announce that NVK, the open-source Vulkan driver for NVIDIA hardware in Mesa, is now ready for prime time.
- FUSE Passthrough Support May Land For Linux 6.9 To Help Boost I/O Performance — The FUSE passthrough mode patches were recently queued up into FUSE.git's for-next branch. With the patches now in the "for-next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.9 merge window in March, the code will hopefully be merged for this next kernel cycle barring any last minute issues.
- First NixCon North America!
- Southern California Linux Expo 21
- Jupiter Broadcasting Calendar
- 🍔 Lunch at SCaLE 🍇, Sat, Mar 16, 2024, 1:30 PM
- Yard House Menu
- Sirius 16 all Ryzen laptop from TUXEDO Computers
- KDE MegaRelease 6 — With Plasma 6, our technology stack has undergone two major upgrades: a transition to the latest version of our application framework, Qt, and a migration to the modern Linux graphics platform, Wayland.
- This Week in Bitcoin — A high-signal Bitcoin news podcast focused on analysis you'll find valuable.
- 42keebs.eu — Far out in the uncharted backwaters of the unfashionable end of the western spiral arm of the Galaxy lies a small unregarded custom keyboard shop.
- NixOS Plasma 6 PR
- starcoder2 — StarCoder2 models are intended for code completion.
- PromtEngineer/localGPT — Chat with your documents on your local device using GPT models.
- Introducing: Fountain Radio — Fountain Radio is a community station for music - powered by Bitcoin.
- Pick: cpu-controller — CPU Controller for Linux is a straightforward GUI application based on PyQt6, enabling users to toggle individual CPU cores on or off in a Linux system to save battery life.
- FlyGoat/RyzenAdj: Adjust power management settings for Ryzen APUs
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