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Wayland Protocols 1.41 Released With Color Management Support
Wayland Protocols 1.41 is shipping today with the color management protocol added for enabling high dynamic range (HDR) support on the Wayland-powered Linux desktop...
2025-02-17 05:54
Linux 6.14-rc3 Released With Faux Bus & Various Fixes
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.14-rc3 as the newest weekly release candidate for Linux 6.14 that will debuting as stable before the end of March...
2025-02-16 17:32
New "Faux Bus" API Merged For Linux 6.14 - Including Both Rust & C Bindings
A few weeks back the Linux kernel "Faux Bus" was proposed by Greg Kroah-Hartman as a "fake" bus solution for simple devices. Today ahead of the Linux 6.14-rc3 tagging, the faux bus code was merged and comes at the same time both with C and Rust languag...
2025-02-16 16:10
Firefox User Manages Experimental Browser Port To GTK4 Toolkit
For four years there has been an open bug report for Mozilla Firefox requesting the browser's GTK widget support be updated for GTK4. An independent user/developer has taken it into his own hands and has managed to get Firefox using the GTK4 toolkit up...
2025-02-16 10:00
GNOME 48 Beta Released With HDR Bits, gdctl, Adwaita Fonts Default & More
The GNOME 48 Beta release was officially announced this morning as the latest stepping stone toward the official GNOME 48 desktop release due out in mid-March...
2025-02-16 07:07
Intel Killer E5000 Ethernet Support For Linux 6.15
The upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle will be adding support for Intel Killer E5000 Ethernet...
2025-02-16 06:45
Btrfs-Progs 6.13 Released With "mkfs.btrfs --compress" Support
Btrfs-Progs 6.13 was released this weekend as the newest routine update to the user-space utilities for the Btrfs file-system...
2025-02-16 06:38
134k Lines Of Code Posted As Latest Effort For COBOL Support Within GCC
While it's an old language, in recent months there's been a renewed effort over a COBOL language front-end for the GCC compiler. There's been out-of-tree COBOL support for GCC that is working to get into the mainline GNU Compiler Collection codebase. T...
2025-02-16 06:19
FreeBSD 13.5 Overcomes UFS Y2038 Problem To Push It Out To Year 2106
Following last week's FreeBSD 13.5 Beta 1 release to kick off this next FreeBSD 13 point release that will also end the series, FreeBSD 13.5 Beta 2 is out this weekend for testing...
2025-02-15 20:30
NTSYNC Driver Fix Being Worked On For Proper User Permissions
One of the great new features of Linux 6.14 is the NTSYNC driver being completed for better emulating the Microsoft Windows NT synchronization primitives so that software like Wine and Proton (Steam Play) can provide for better performance when running...
2025-02-15 11:05
Karol Herbst Steps Down As Nouveau Maintainer Due To Linux Kernel's Toxic Environment
Karol Herbst has been a Nouveau driver developer for over a decade working on this open-source, reverse-engineered NVIDIA Linux graphics driver. He went on to become employed by Red Hat. While he's known more these days for his work on Mesa and the Rus...
2025-02-15 06:40
KDE Developers Addressing Early Bugs From Plasma 6.3
KDE Plasma 6.3 released this week as the newest step forward for the KDE desktop. While it was smooth on the whole, there were some early bugs that KDE developers were dealing with this week. KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly devel...
2025-02-15 06:27
Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Rebranding As AerynOS
The nearly three year old Serpent OS Linux distribution started by Ikey Doherty of Solus fame is going to re-brand as AerynOS...
2025-02-15 00:00
Go 1.24 Brings Performance Improvements, Better WebAssembly Support
Go 1.24 was released this week by Google engineers as the newest step forward for this popular programming language...
2025-02-14 20:24
Dynamic Triple Buffering Merged For GNOME 48
As quite a Valentine's Day treat, the long-in-development dynamic triple buffering support for GNOME's Mutter compositor was just merged ahead of next month's GNOME 48 desktop release!..
2025-02-14 13:35
Linux 6.15 To Ensure PlayStation 5 Controllers Use The Correct Driver
A change queued up by an Amazon engineer ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel cycle will ensure that PlayStation 5 controllers on Linux load with the correctly desired driver...
2025-02-14 10:49
Fwupd 2.0.6 Adds Support For HPE Gen10/Gen10+ Servers
Fwupd 2.0.6 is out today as the newest update to this widely-used open-source solution for system and peripheral device firmware updating under Linux...
2025-02-14 08:52
Ubuntu Making Progress On Replacing initramfs-tools With Dracut
As a follow-up to the news from last October of Ubuntu considering Dracut to replace initramfs-tools for initrd generation, that work remains ongoing with some improvements since having been prepared for the upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 release but it remains...
2025-02-14 07:00
GNOME Software May Eventually Drop RPM Support In Favor Of Flatpaks
Stemming from the ongoing discussion around the issues raised with Fedora's Flatpak package of OBS Studio and how Flatpaks should be prioritized within the GNOME Software app center/store, the future of RPM support within GNOME Software raised...
2025-02-14 06:37
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If you wish to show your appreciation for all of the Linux hardware reviews, Linux benchmarking, and open-source news provided on Phoronix each and every day, you can join Phoronix Premium this Valentine's Day weekend at a discounted rate...
2025-02-14 06:30