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Linux 3.8 Kernel Officially Released

Monday, 18 February 2013 17:14 Phoronix

The Linux 3.8 kernel was released on Monday afternoon by Linus Torvalds...

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Intel Has Good DRM Driver Changes In Linux 3.9

Sunday, 17 February 2013 22:09 Phoronix

The Intel DRM graphics driver will feature a number of user-facing improvements within the Linux 3.9 kernel...

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TI OMAP DRM For Linux 3.9 Moves Out Of Staging

Sunday, 17 February 2013 18:38 Phoronix

The Texas Instruments' OMAP DRM pull request for the Linux 3.9 kernel is now known. The OMAP DRM graphics driver will leave the kernel's staging area while at the same time picking up support for the OMAP5 SoC...

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NVIDIA's PRIME Helpers Are Ready For Linux 3.9

Friday, 15 February 2013 04:05 Phoronix

Aside from a lot of other exciting DRM driver happenings for the Linux 3.9 kernel, it looks like the DRM "PRIME Helpers" that were conceived by NVIDIA to help them support DMA_BUF in their binary driver will be merged...

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D-Bus is Coming to the Linux Kernel

Monday, 11 February 2013 03:32 The H

The kernel developers are planning a kernel-based implementation of the D-Bus protocol, which will offer faster communication between system processes and between applications.

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