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DisplayLink Releases First USB 3.0 Driver, But Doesn't Appear Fully Open
A few days after writing about a Linux driver coming for DisplayLink's USB 3.0-based hardware, they've released a binary driver for Ubuntu.
This message was posted to the DisplayLink Forums, "We’re pleased to announce the first version of DisplayLink support for Ubuntu is now available...We intend to maintain Ubuntu support, but have designed the driver in such a way, it should be possible to port the driver to other distributions."
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Zaphod Support For The X.Org Mode-Setting Driver
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A Bug In The Intel Linux Graphics Driver Is Causing KDE's Plasma 5 To Crash
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AMDGPU Support Added To Mesa's DRM Library
Support for utilizing the new AMDGPU DRM driver found in Linux 4.2 and newer has been added to Mesa's DRM library (libdrm).
The many AMDGPU Libdrm patches just made their way into the mainline Git tree! This is needed for interfacing by the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver with this new DRM kernel driver supporting the Radeon R9 285 "TONGA", Carrizo, and Fury/Fiji GPUs coming with Linux 4.3.
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Pointer Acceleration Code Being Cleaned Up For Libinput
A number of the patches fix "the current mess of different speeds and add a bit of clarity... [two of the patches] should help greatly here," Peter noted. The other patches further split up the pointer acceleration code as a step towards eventually allowing per-device custom processing.
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Accessibility on a Linux desktop is not one of the strongest points to highlight. However, GNOME, one of the best desktop environments, has managed to do better comparatively (I think).
In a blog post by Christian Fredrik Schaller (Director for Desktop/Graphics, Red Hat), he mentions that they are making serious efforts to improve accessibility.
Starting with Red Hat hiring Lukas Tyrychtr, who is a blind software engineer to lead the effort in improving Red Hat Enterprise Linux, and Fedora Workstation in terms of accessibility.
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