Mozilla Finally Launches An APT Repository For Easy Firefox Nightly Updating (www.phoronix.com)
Trying Out & Benchmarking Bcachefs On Linux 6.7 (www.phoronix.com)
Bcachefs Merged Into The Linux 6.7 Kernel (www.phoronix.com)
The Ongoing Work For Native Wine Wayland Support (www.phoronix.com)
KDE KWin Preparing Preliminary Support For Running HDR Games (www.phoronix.com)
X.Org Hit By New Security Vulnerabilities - Two Date Back To 1988 With X11R2 (www.phoronix.com)
Made public today was CVE-2023-43785 as an out-of-bounds memory access within the libX11 code that has been around since 1996. A second libX11 flaw is stack exhaustion from infinite recursion within the PutSubImage() function of libX11… This vulnerability has been around since X11R2 in February of 1988....
RadeonSI Completes ACO Compiler Support With Mesa 24.0 (www.phoronix.com)
tl;dr ACO compiler support for OGL added, which should mean faster shader compilation times with OGL games on AMD gpu systems
The Ongoing Work For Native Wine Wayland Support (www.phoronix.com)
AMD ROCm + PyTorch Now Supported With The Radeon RX 7900 XTX (www.phoronix.com)
Mesa's Radeon Vulkan Driver Has Become Much More Capable At Ray-Tracing, Thanks To Valve (www.phoronix.com)
Even Though It's Currently Slow, The Mesa NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan Driver Has Been Making Good Progress (www.phoronix.com)
The State Of HDR On The Steam Deck With Valve's Gamescope Compositor (www.phoronix.com)
The State Of HDR On The Steam Deck With Valve's Gamescope Compositor (www.phoronix.com)
Debian Resumes Merged /usr Transition By Repealing Moratorium (www.phoronix.com)
Debian 12 had aimed to have a merged “/usr” file-system layout similar to other Linux distributions, but The Debian Technical Committee earlier this year decided to impose a merged-/usr file movement moratorium. But now with Debian 12 having been out for a few months, that moratorium has been repealed....
NVIDIA R545 Linux Beta Driver Brings HDMI Deep Color, Night Color & FB Consoles (www.phoronix.com)
There are a lot of good improvements and fixes in this release. As a remorseful Nvidia on Linux user, I am extremely excited that GAMMA_LUT is finally making its debut in the Nvidia driver. This means I can actually try to use Gnome Wayland at night with the night shift feature, assuming other Wayland issues are also resolved.
Mozilla Might Finally Enable Firefox's Wayland Backend Soon (www.phoronix.com)
Wine 8.18 Released WIth Continued Work On Wayland Window Management (www.phoronix.com)
Wine 8.18 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source program for running Windows applications and games on Linux. Wine 8.18 is another step closer to Wine 9.0 stable that is due out in early 2024…
PipeWire 1.0 RC2 Released With Fixes, Improved Rate Switching (www.phoronix.com)
PipeWire 1.0 RC2 Released With Fixes, Improved Rate Switching (www.phoronix.com)
Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver Begins Working On Pipeline Caching (www.phoronix.com)
Intel Comes Up With A Way For Vulkan Sparse Support On Their Existing Linux Driver (www.phoronix.com)
Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 ISOs Recalled Due To Malicious User Translations (www.phoronix.com)
GNOME Merge Requests Opened That Would Drop X.Org Session Support (www.phoronix.com)
A set of merge requests were opened that would effectively drop X.Org (X11) session support for the GNOME desktop and once that code is removed making it a Wayland-only desktop environment....