Fedora 41 Looks To Finally Say Goodbye To Python 2.7 (www.phoronix.com)
Wine Staging 9.11 Released With A Patch For A 17 Year Old Bug Report (www.phoronix.com)
Stadia Controller Rumbles and New Gaming Peripherals Supported By Linux 6.6 (www.phoronix.com)
Ubuntu 24.10 Now Defaults To NVIDIA On Wayland (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.8 TCP Performance Boosts By ~40% For Many Concurrent Connections (www.phoronix.com)
Mutter Merges Experimental Variable Refresh Rate For GNOME 46 (www.phoronix.com)
AMD Announces The Radeon RX 7700 XT & RX 7800 XT Graphics Cards (www.phoronix.com)
Finally getting some (closer to) mainstream video cards from AMD. Still feels overpriced but a lot better than $750 for a 7900xt.
KDE Plasma 6.1 Lands Dynamic Triple Buffering Support (www.phoronix.com)
Former Nouveau Lead Developer Joins NVIDIA, Continues Working On Open-Source Driver (www.phoronix.com)
FUSE Passthrough Mode Merged For Linux 6.9 (www.phoronix.com)
Xfce 4.20 Aiming For Usable Wayland Support While Maintaining X11 Compatibility (www.phoronix.com)
Note: Xface wiki doesn’t explicitly mention version 4.20 comes with Wayland support....
Debian Likely Moving Away From i386 In The Near Future (www.phoronix.com)
Steam Deck Motion Sensors Being Worked On For Linux's HID-Steam Driver (www.phoronix.com)
Fedora Linux 40 Cleared For Release Next Week (www.phoronix.com)
AMD's Longtime Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Advocate Retires (www.phoronix.com)
Nouveau NVIDIA GSP Firmware Support Merged For Linux 6.7 (www.phoronix.com)
Nouveau GPU System Processor (GSP) firmware integration that allows making use of NVIDIA’s binary GSP firmware on RTX 20 “Turing” and newer GPUs for having improved support. In turn this GSP route also provides initial support for GeForce RTX 40 series support....
GNOME Merge Requests Opened That Would Drop X.Org Session Support (www.phoronix.com)
Glibc Dynamic Loader Hit By A Nasty Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability (www.phoronix.com)
Linux 6.6 To Support Rumble / Force Feedback On Google Stadia Controllers (www.phoronix.com)
RADV Ray-Tracing To Become Much Faster With New Driver Code (www.phoronix.com)
MR: gitlab.freedesktop.org/mesa/mesa/-/…/24587...
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.
NVIDIA's Open GPU Linux Kernel Driver Will Soon Be The Default For Turing & Newer GPUs (www.phoronix.com)
Former Nouveau Lead Developer Joins NVIDIA, Continues Working On Open-Source Driver (www.phoronix.com)
AMD Quietly Funded A Drop-In CUDA Implementation Built On ROCm: It's Now Open-Source (www.phoronix.com)
