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Wayback Is An Experimental X11 Compatibility Layer For X11 Desktops Using Wayland
Wayback is a new open-source project working on providing an X11 compatibility layer for running full X11 desktop environments using Wayland components with a rootful XWayland server...
2025-06-29 07:07
GNOME Shell & Mutter 49 Alpha 1 Released With More Changes
Released earlier this month were various GNOME 49 Alpha 0 packages including for GNOME Shell and the Mutter compositor while out this weekend are the "Alpha 1" releases...
2025-06-29 06:57
AMD Strix Halo, Snapdragon X & Linux Graphics Were Most Popular This Quarter
With Q2 quickly drawing to a close, here is a look back at the most popular Linux hardware reviews and other Linux/open-source news for the quarter...
2025-06-29 06:29
Floating Mini Panel GNOME Extension
GNOME Shell extensions make it easy to reshape the standard desktop layout in novel new ways, with add-ons like Dash to Panel, OpenBar, and Task Up provide options to combine, configure and customise the top panel. Now, another choice has drifted on to...
2025-06-28 14:23
Floating Mini Panel GNOME Shell Extension
GNOME Shell extensions make it easy to reshape the standard desktop layout in novel new ways, with add-ons like Dash to Panel, OpenBar, and Task Up provide options to combine, configure and customise the top panel. Now, another choice has drifted on to...
2025-06-28 14:23
A Moveable GNOME Top Bar? This Extension Provides One
A new GNOME Shell extension that turns the top bar into a compact, movable widget, so you can customise your Ubuntu desktop minimalism in mind. You're reading A Moveable GNOME Top Bar? This Extension Provides One, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not r...
2025-06-28 14:23
A Moveable GNOME Top Bar? This Extension Gives You One
A new GNOME Shell extension that turns the top bar into a compact, movable widget, so you can customise your Ubuntu desktop minimalism in mind. You're reading A Moveable GNOME Top Bar? This Extension Gives You One, a blog post from OMG! Ubuntu. Do not ...
2025-06-28 14:23
Linux 6.16 Extends Cleaner Shader Support To More AMD CDNA/GFX9 GPUs
The past number of months has seen work by AMD Linux driver engineers in enabling cleaner shader functionality for various generations of GPUs to help ensure user/application isolation. Being merged overnight as part of the AMDGPU "fixes" for Linux 6.1...
2025-06-28 09:27
RADV Ray-Tracing Lands Pointer Flags Support For RDNA3 & Newer
The RADV Vulkan driver's ray-tracing performance has improved a lot over time such as shown within yesterday's RADV vs. AMDVLK performance comparison on Strix Point. Coincidentally, merged today is yet another ray-tracing optimization to benefit RDNA3 ...
2025-06-28 08:04
LACT 0.8 GPU Configuration & Monitoring Tool Introduces More Features
While a number of Linux desktop users have expressed disappointment over Intel and AMD not providing any GUI for their GPU driver settings and similar functionality like they do under Windows, there are a number of third-party open-source GUI programs ...
2025-06-28 06:24
KDE Devs Add Wayland Session Management To Qt 6.10, Inertial Scrolling For Qt Quick Apps
KDE developers this week have been busy with a mix of polishing the recent Plasma 6.4 release as well as taking on more feature development work for Plasma 6.5 coming later in the year...
2025-06-28 06:01
"Tyr" Announced As New Rust-Written Linux Kernel Graphics Driver
An unexpected announcement this Friday evening is an introduction to Tyr, a new Linux kernel DRM graphics driver written in the Rust programming language. As is sadly becoming more common among Linux GPU kernel drivers is the increasing obscure driver ...
2025-06-27 20:32
GStreamer 1.26.3 Multimedia Framework Patches H.266 Video Parser Security Flaw
GStreamer 1.26.3 open-source multimedia framework is now available for download with various improvements and bug fixes, as well as other changes. Here’s what’s new! The post GStreamer 1.26.3 Multimedia Framework Patches H.266 Video Parser Securit...
2025-06-27 19:10
Wine 10.11 Makes More Preparations For NTSYNC Support
Wine 10.11 is out for testing today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this software for running Microsoft Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms...
2025-06-27 18:57
Tech Jobs Redefined: New data shows that AI substantially shapes (not shrinks) the technical talent landscape in 2025
When it comes to AI and the workforce, the headlines tend to oversimplify: jobs are disappearing, automation is inevitable, and the machines are winning. But the reality—as revealed by our latest research—is far more nuanced. 
2025-06-27 16:58
PipeWire 1.4.6 Adds New Option to Disable RAOP, Improves the ALSA Plugin
PipeWire 1.4.6 open-source server for handling audio/video streams and hardware on Linux is now available for download with various fixes and improvements. The post PipeWire 1.4.6 Adds New Option to Disable RAOP, Improves the ALSA Plugin appeared firs...
2025-06-27 16:09
RADV vs. AMDVLK Driver Performance For Strix Halo Radeon 8060S Graphics
The latest in our ongoing testing of AMD Strix Halo performance using the HP ZBook Ultra G1a is analyzing the Vulkan API performance between Mesa's RADV driver and the AMDVLK official open-source AMD Vulkan driver for Linux systems. More than one hundr...
2025-06-27 11:10
Ubuntu Concept 25.04 ISOs Published For Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Laptops
Similar to the Ubuntu 24.10 concept ISOs for Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptops, Canonical has begun publishing new "concept" images of Ubuntu 25.04 ISOs optimized for use on the growing number of Qualcomm Snpadragon X Elite laptops. This week marks t...
2025-06-27 09:54
Canonical Makes Multipass VM Manager Fully Open-Source
Canonical's Multipass lightweight VM manager for not only Linux systems but also Windows and macOS is now considered fully open-source. Multipass started out as a means of running an Ubuntu environment with ease from a single command on major operating...
2025-06-27 09:05
🔧 Unlocking system performance: A practical guide to tuning PCP on Fedora & RHEL
Performance Co-Pilot (PCP) is a robust framework for collecting, monitoring, and analyzing system performance metrics. Available in the repos for Fedora and RHEL, it allows administrators to gather a wide array of data with minimal configuration. This ...
2025-06-27 08:00