Fedora 40 Looks To Offer KDE Plasma 6 Desktop, Drop The KDE X11 Session (www.phoronix.com)
AMD Ryzen 7000 Series Make For Compelling Budget Servers, Leading Performance & Value Over Xeon E Review (www.phoronix.com)
Radeon RADV Driver's Emulated Ray-Tracing Achieves 100% Pass Rate (www.phoronix.com)
Firefox 115 Now Available With Intel GPU Video Decoding On Linux (www.phoronix.com)
I wonder if its talking about descrete or the integrated ones.
An Initial Benchmark Of Bcachefs vs. Btrfs vs. EXT4 vs. F2FS vs. XFS On Linux 6.11 (www.phoronix.com)
Mesa 24.3 Lands "The Juiciest Refactor Ever" [Mike Blumenkrantz from Valve :"I'm gonna go full doomguy across the whole DRI frontend and everything it touches"] (www.phoronix.com)
VKD3D-Proton 2.13 Brings OpenVR/OpenXR Interop & Performance Improvements (www.phoronix.com)
Full changelog here: github.com/HansKristian-Work/…/v2.13
Fedora 41 Looks To Offer A KDE Plasma Mobile Spin - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)
FreeBSD 14.1 vs. DragonFlyBSD 6.4 vs. NetBSD 10 vs. Linux Benchmarks (www.phoronix.com)
Vulkan 1.3.286 Released With One New Extension (www.phoronix.com)
Microsoft Starts Preparing Its Open-Source DirectX Shader Compiler For "HLSL 202x" (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.10 Improves AMD ROCm Compute Support For "Small" Ryzen APUs (www.phoronix.com)
KDE's Amarok 3.0 Music Player Released After Six Year Hiatus - Now Ported To Qt5 (www.phoronix.com)
Released back in March of 2018 was the Amarok 2.9 music player for this KDE project. Shipping today is finally Amarok 3.0 as the first major release in six years and now ported to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5.
AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta Restores Support For Some Hardware Deprecated By RHEL (www.phoronix.com)
Niri 0.1.3 Wayland Compositor Brings Touch Support, New Animations (www.phoronix.com)
Niri, the scrolling WM, now supports touch input
Core NGINX Developer Forks Web Server Into Freenginx (www.phoronix.com)
Intel Arrow Lake Graphics Support Ready For Linux 6.9 - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)
GNOME Shell & Mutter 46 Alpha Released - Phoronix (www.phoronix.com)
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.
Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 23.10 Performance On The Lenovo ThinkPad P14s Gen 4 (AMD Ryzen 7 PRO 7840U) (www.phoronix.com)
Wayland Color Management Protocol Posted For Weston (www.phoronix.com)
The Wayland Color Management protocol has been years in the making and is needed for a client to specify the color space and HDR metadata of a surface. This color management protocol is ultimately needed for getting high dynamic range (HDR) support working out well within Wayland environments. This week an initial merge request...
SteamOS 3.5 Delivering Some Decent Performance Gains For The Steam Deck (www.phoronix.com)
Mesa 23.3 Lands Optional Support For Allowing Game Tearing On Wayland (www.phoronix.com)
KDE Plasma 6 Wayland Session: "It's Been Working Great!" (www.phoronix.com)
blog.broulik.de/…/on-the-road-to-plasma-6-contd/
Intel Gets Hogwarts Legacy Running On Linux Driver By Pretending Not To Be Intel Graphics (www.phoronix.com)
