OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 Released: Powered By Linux 6.6 LTS, Their Last Release On Plasma 5

Over four years after the debut of OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 and in the interim since also working on the ROME rolling-release platform, OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 finally debuted today...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenMandriva-Lx-5.0

Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Overhauls Its Buffer Allocation Code

While much of the modern graphics world these days is focused on the Vulkan API, there's no signs of Intel's open-source graphics driver engineers losing optimization focus with their OpenGL Linux driver by way of the Iris Gallium3D code. Merged this holiday week was a rather significant rework to its buffer object allocation system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-G3D-Improved-Bucket-Cache

Linux Kernel Developers Debate Priority-Based Shutdown Support

A Linux kernel mailing list discussion this holiday weekend that is seeing polarized views on the matter is around a new patch series proposed priority-based shutdown support for drivers/hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Priority-Based-Shutdown