systemd 255-rc1 Brings "Blue Screen of Death" Support and New Tool To Spawn VMs (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....
LXQt 1.4 Debuts As Last Planned Qt5 Desktop Release (www.phoronix.com)
LXQt 1.4 debuted today as the newest feature release for this lightweight Qt desktop environment that was formed years ago as the merging of the LXDE and Razor-qt projects....
Trying Out & Benchmarking Bcachefs On Linux 6.7 (www.phoronix.com)
Trying Out & Benchmarking Bcachefs On Linux 6.7 (www.phoronix.com)
KDE Plasma 6.0 Approved For Fedora 40 - Including Dropping The X11 Session (www.phoronix.com)
KDE KWin Preparing Preliminary Support For Running HDR Games (www.phoronix.com)
Bcachefs Merged Into The Linux 6.7 Kernel (www.phoronix.com)
Mozilla Finally Launches An APT Repository For Easy Firefox Nightly Updating (www.phoronix.com)
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)
The Ongoing Work For Native Wine Wayland Support (www.phoronix.com)
The State Of HDR On The Steam Deck With Valve's Gamescope Compositor (www.phoronix.com)
Mesa's Radeon Vulkan Driver Has Become Much More Capable At Ray-Tracing, Thanks To Valve (www.phoronix.com)
The State Of HDR On The Steam Deck With Valve's Gamescope Compositor (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.
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....
AMD ROCm + PyTorch Now Supported With The Radeon RX 7900 XTX (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)
Mozilla Might Finally Enable Firefox's Wayland Backend Soon (www.phoronix.com)
PipeWire 1.0 RC2 Released With Fixes, Improved Rate Switching (www.phoronix.com)
Ubuntu Desktop 23.10 ISOs Recalled Due To Malicious User Translations (www.phoronix.com)
Curl Preps For "Probably The Worst Curl Security Flaw In A Long Time" (www.phoronix.com)
We may all be in trouble
GNOME Merge Requests Opened That Would Drop X.Org Session Support (www.phoronix.com)
