Valve Developer Brings DRM Format Modifiers to Aging AMD GCN GPUs on Linux
Valve's Timur Kristóf has posted patches adding DRM format modifier support to AMD GCN 1.0 through GFX8 GPUs, the last AMDGPU-supported cards that lacked it.
Added Orange Pi 6 Plus (12-core, dual 5GbE, $199+). Updated Raspberry Pi 5 prices (RAM crisis: 4GB $75, 8GB $115). Updated Radxa X4 to 2.5GbE and corrected pricing. Updated ZimaBoard 2 to retail pricing ($279+).
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Germany's Sovereign Tech Fund is funding KDE to harden testing, security, and communications across the Plasma desktop and its broader free software stack.
Deep Computing's third RISC-V mainboard for the Framework Laptop 13 packs an octa-core SpacemiT K3, up to 32GB LPDDR5, and 60 TOPS of AI performance.
OpenZFS 2.4.2 adds Linux 7.1 support, fixes multiple dRAID corruption and rebuild bugs, and finishes porting Linux mount handling to the modern fs_context API.
Minisforum's M2 mini PC ships with a 16-core Core Ultra 7 356H, dual 2.5 GbE, USB4, Wi-Fi 7, and two M.2 NVMe slots in a 130 mm chassis.
SONOFF's new Hydro DUO is a dual-zone Zigbee 3.0 and BLE smart water valve with brass inlets, a flow meter, and Home Assistant support via MQTT.
KDE has released Plasma 6.6.5, a maintenance update that bundles a month of bug fixes and translation work on top of the 6.6 desktop environment.
Lenovo's 930 g (2.0 lbs) ThinkPad X13 Gen 7 brings Panther Lake and Ryzen AI 400 chips, PCIe 5.0 SSDs, and a new 64 GB RAM option to the ultralight 13-inch clamshell.
OpenZFS 2.3.7 lands with stability fixes for dRAID rebuilds, block cloning corruption, and Linux kernel 7.0 compatibility spanning kernels 4.18 through 7.0.
The Milk-V Jupiter2 pairs a SpacemiT K3 eight-core RISC-V chip with a 60 TOPS NPU, 10GbE networking, and up to 32GB of LPDDR5 in a compact aluminum-clad SBC.