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Enlightenment 0.27 Released For This 28 Year Old Window Manager / Compositor

Just over one year since the release of the Enlightenment 0.26 window manager, this weekend Carsten Haitzler released the Enlightenment 0.27 window manager and Wayland compositor. Enlightenment continues going now 28 years in development by Rasterman!..

2025-01-12 06:39

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Linux cpupower Utility To See Improved AMD Support With Linux 6.14 Kernel

The cpupower utility lives within the Linux kernel source tree and for the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel will see better reporting capabilities on modern AMD Ryzen and EPYC processors...

2025-01-12 06:31

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Niri 25.01 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Brings More Features

Niri 25.01 was released on Saturday as the newest version of this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor that has developed a nice following among enthusiasts...

2025-01-12 06:14

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Fedora 42 Looks To Ship Optimized Executables For Different x86_64 Capabilities

Fedora Linux has already supported making use of glibc HWCAPs for allowing libraries to be built for different x86_64 micro-architecture feature levels for performance-sensitive code where it can pay off when leveraging AVX/AVX2 or other newer Intel/AM...

2025-01-11 13:00

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Debian 12.9 Released With Various Security & Bug Fixes

Debian 12.9 was just released as the latest install media refresh for those wishing to run the latest Debian 12 packages...

2025-01-11 10:32

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AMD Preps More GPU Driver Fixes For Linux 6.14, Cleaner Shader For RDNA2 dGPUs

On Friday AMD sent out another round of patches that are destined for the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle...

2025-01-11 08:54

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Intel Xe Driver Adding "RPa" Frequency Reporting With Linux 6.14

This week Intel engineers sent out a number of kernel graphics driver pull requests of new code for the upcoming Linux 6.14 cycle. In addition to the UHBR for Panther Lake and lower Alchemist GPU power use with whitelisted GPUs and fixing old Intel Has...

2025-01-11 07:07

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GNOME Image Viewer Now Editing JPEGs, Other GNOME 48 Progress

GNOME 48 is moving along with the GNOME 48 Alpha packages due this weekend followed by the beta in early February. GNOME 48 is still making good progress in its goal to release on 19 March...

2025-01-11 06:45

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Sony Proposes Changing LLVM Clang Default To C++20 Mode

Sony engineers are proposing that the LLVM Clang compiler changes its default C++ mode from C++17 to C++20. This coincides with Sony planning to soon upgrade their PlayStation 5 compiler downstream to C++20 by default...

2025-01-11 06:33

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KDE Plasma 6.3 Bringing A More Consistent Close Button, Other Last Minute Changes

This week brought the KDE Plasma 6.3 beta as well as a number of last minute feature changes for this desktop update due for release in February...

2025-01-11 06:13

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Intel Open-Source Vulkan Driver Merges Initial AV1 Decode Support

Merged this Friday night for Mesa 25.0 is initial Vulkan Video AV1 decode support for Intel's open-source "ANV" Vulkan Linux driver...

2025-01-10 20:37

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Wine 10.0-rc5 Brings Another 31 Bug Fixes

Wine 10.0 is working its way toward a stable release likely in the next week or two, but today there is Wine 10.0-rc5 with the latest round of fixes...

2025-01-10 16:53

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Experimental Linux Address Space Isolation "ASI" v2 Patches: I/O Throughput Lower By 70%

Google engineers and others have been talking about Address Space Isolation "ASI" for the Linux kernel to better deal with speculative execution attacks and other CPU vulnerabilities. Last summer there were some new "request for comments" patches worki...

2025-01-10 14:17

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Git 2.48 Released With Initial Support For The Meson Build System

Git 2.48 is out today as the newest feature update to this leading distributed version control system...

2025-01-10 13:40

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More Intel Xeon Clearwater Forest Enablement Merged For Linux 6.13

Squeezing into the mainline Linux 6.13 kernel code today as part of the latest batch of "fixes" are two additional enablement bits for the upcoming high-density Intel Xeon Clearwater Forest server processors...

2025-01-10 12:02

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Lenovo Discovers Situation Of Linux Dropping PCIe Gen 5 NVMe SSDs To Gen 1 Speeds

A change made to the Linux kernel in June 2023 has led to a situation where PCIe Gen5 NVMe solid state drives could potentially drop down to Gen1 speeds... Lenovo engineers spotted this issue and bisected the problem along with coming up with a solutio...

2025-01-10 10:33

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Servo Browser Engine Adds Dark Mode, Some XPath Support

The Servo open-source web browser layout engine project has published their newest monthly recap to highlight the progress they made during December 2024. They ended the year on a high note with getting dark mode support working and other features wire...

2025-01-10 09:50

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VKD3D-Proton 2.14.1 Brings A Few Fixes For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan

Hans-Kristian Arntzen with Valve has just released VKD3D-Proton 2.14.1 as this Direct3D 12 over Vulkan implementation...

2025-01-10 09:02

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Ubuntu Considers Taking It Easier On Software Updates Over Weekends

Ubuntu developers are looking at extending their policy of not releasing stable release updates (SRUs) around the weekend as well as not phasing them up to 100% during those weekend times either...

2025-01-10 07:03

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12 Years After Haswell, Intel Open-Source Graphics Developers Still Make Occasional Fix

The Intel Haswell CPUs were originally introduced back in 2013 and great for the time. Under Microsoft Windows the driver support has long been obsolete but under Linux with Intel's open-source driver support there is still even the occasional fix all ...

2025-01-10 06:40

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