**KDE Welcomes Ghostwriter To Its Collection Of Apps** KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly development summary concerning all of the progress made to the open-source desktop over the past two weeks. This status update actually covers the past two weeks due to last weekend being preoccupied with the annual KDE Akademy developer conference... ⌘ Read more

**Open-Source VIA Linux Driver Still Wants To Be Merged, But Pursuing Acceleration First** The OpenChrome DRM driver has been in development for over a decade for providing open-source display driver support for VIA's aging x86 chipsets. For years now OpenChrome development has been down to one developer left on the project, Kevin Brace, and months ago he hoped to get the driver finally merged into the Linux kernel. He still holds out on those ambitions but will first aim to get basic acceleration working with a stabl ... ⌘ Read more

**Linux 6.1 To Better Handle "Cheap Clone" Nintendo Controller Knockoffs** The HID subsystem updates have been submitted for the ongoing linux 6.1 merge window of which there are several notable driver additions for bettering the hardware support on several fronts... ⌘ Read more

**VA-API Library 2.16 Released With Various Improvements** Intel engineers have released libva 2.16 as the newest feature update to this open-source VA-API common library used for video acceleration by many drivers and multimedia applications... ⌘ Read more

**WineConf 2022 Talked Up Vulkan, PE Conversion Progress, Wine 8.0 Early Next Year** Taking place this week alongside the X.Org Developers Conference (XDC 2022) was WineConf as the annual gathering of Wine developers. CodeWeavers organized the co-hosted events in Minneapolis and during WineConf were two days of interesting talks for enjoying Windows games/applications on Linux and macOS... ⌘ Read more

**KDE Plasma 5.27 Planning To Be The Last Plasma 5 Feature Release** With Qt 6 porting and KDE Frameworks 6 development continuing at full-speed, KDE developers are looking at Plasma 5.27 being the last feature release in the Plasma 5 series... ⌘ Read more

**MGLRU & Maple Tree Submitted For Linux 6.1** Andrew Morton this afternoon submitted his memory management "MM" related updates for the Linux 6.1 merge window. Most notable with this pull request is the inclusion of Multi-Gen LRU "MGLRU" and the Maple Tree kernel features... ⌘ Read more

**Intel Meteor Lake Thunderbolt Support & Other USB Updates Sent In For Linux 6.1** Greg Kroah-Hartman has submitted the USB and Thunderbolt feature updates for the in-development Linux 6.1 kernel... ⌘ Read more

**EROFS Lands FSCache-Based Shared Domain Support For Linux 6.1** EROFS as the read-only Linux file-system started by Huawei originally for Android devices continues seeing new adoption, including in the area of container use-cases beyond the original Android focus... ⌘ Read more

**Zink Could Prove An Interesting Solution For Evolving OpenGL** Erik Faye-Lund of Collabora raised an interesting discussion this past week at XDC 2022 about leveraging Zink for post-OpenGL graphics development. With Zink able to run "anywhere" and currently focused on existing OpenGL APIs atop Vulkan, Zink could be used as a vehicle for developing new OpenGL APIs or trying to evolve the API in its own right while being able to run atop Vulkan API drivers on Windows or Linux... ⌘ Read more