X.Org Hit By New Security Vulnerabilities - Two Date Back To 1988 With X11R2 (www.phoronix.com)
sdl12-compat 1.2.68 Allows More Games To Run On The Modern Linux Desktop (www.phoronix.com)
A new version of the sdl12-compat library is now available, which serves as an SDL2 portability layer for allowing old SDL 1.2.x games and applications work on modern SDL2 systems.
PipeWire 1.0 Planned For Release Later This Year (www.phoronix.com)
Arch Linux Installer Update Allows More Control Over Parallel Downloads, Ly (www.phoronix.com)
Archinstall 2.6.1 key features include allowing a custom number of parallel downloads to be specified, the option to use Ly, an ncurses-like display manager, the option to use Slick-Greeter with LightDM, and adding Kitty/Dolphin/Wofi to Hyprland....
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...
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...
AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT & RX 7700 XT Linux Performance (www.phoronix.com)
AMD Radeon RX 7800 XT & RX 7700 XT Linux Performance (www.phoronix.com)
Flatpak Lands Support For Wayland Security Context (www.phoronix.com)
The Flatpak open-source app sandboxing tech has merged support for the Wayland security context protocol.
Ryzen 9 7950X Performance With The New AMD P-State Default Of Linux 6.5 (www.phoronix.com)
Casefolding For Bcachefs File-System Posted (www.phoronix.com)
Intel Wiring Up DisplayPort Alt Mode 2.1 Support For Linux (www.phoronix.com)
Good news for AMD Linux users - fTPM RNG will soon be disabled (www.phoronix.com)
For those out of the loop, some AMD users have been suffering from stuttering issues caused by the AMD fTPM random number generator. A firmware/BIOS update appears to fix the issue for some users, but not others, leading to more bug reports being sent in. Last week, Linus Torvalds said “let’s just disable the stupid fTPM...
Steam On Linux Usage Spikes To Nearly 2% In July, Larger Marketshare Than Apple macOS (www.phoronix.com)
Mold 2.0 High Speed Linker Released: Moves From AGPL To MIT License (www.phoronix.com)
Mold 2.0 High Speed Linker Released: Moves From AGPL To MIT License (www.phoronix.com)
Intel AVX10: Taking AVX-512 With More Features & Supporting It Across P/E Cores (www.phoronix.com)
Good grief....
Debian 12.1 Released With Many Bug Fixes (www.phoronix.com)
Proton 8.0-3 Released With More Windows Games Running On Linux, Fixes (www.phoronix.com)
Intel Arc Graphics Enjoy Nice ~10% Speedup With Recent Open-Source Linux Driver (www.phoronix.com)
Btrfs Deprecating Its Integrity Checker Tool (www.phoronix.com)
AMD Ryzen Z1 Extreme Proves Very Versatile For Power/Performance - Benchmarks Against The Ryzen 7 7840U (www.phoronix.com)
Mesa RADV Driver Re-Enables Ray-Tracing Pipelines For AMD VanGogh APUs / Steam Deck (www.phoronix.com)
cross-posted from: vlemmy.net/post/627289...
AMD Begins Sending "Family 26" Linux Patches For Apparent Zen 5 CPUs (www.phoronix.com)
Godot 4.1 Released With More Improvements To This Open-Source Game Engine (www.phoronix.com)
