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Hyprland 0.45 Compositor Smooths Round Edges, Window Snapping For Floating Windows
Hyprland 0.45 released today as the newest version of this Wayland compositor focused on being an independent, very customizable, and dynamic tiling compositor...
2024-11-09 10:19
NVIDIA Outlines Current Wayland Limitations & Upcoming Driver Features
Longtime NVIDIA Linux engineer Aaron Plattner shared a status update on Friday around the current feature parity difference between the NVIDIA driver stack on X11 and under (X)Wayland...
2024-11-09 09:32
Linux 6.13 Bringing DRM Panic Support To NVIDIA GPUs
Friday saw a final round of "drm-misc-next" feature updates ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel merge window. The DRM Panic code continues to be enhanced for improving this "Blue Screen of Death" like experience on the Linux desktop...
2024-11-09 08:40
New Patches Aim To Optimize Context Switching With Two Improvements
A set of Friday night patches provide for some exciting context switching optimizations to the Linux kernel...
2024-11-09 08:16
Microsoft Azure Linux 3.0 Update Pushes Additions For Intel, AMD & Arm
Microsoft overnight released the newest version of their Azure Linux 3.0 in-house Linux distribution that is used by a variety of internal services at the company as well as external customers...
2024-11-09 06:10
KDE's Info Center Now Shows Multi-GPU Information, Plasma 6.3 Bringing UI Refinements
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly development recap of all the interesting Plasma desktop changes to have landed over the past week...
2024-11-09 05:57
Mesa 24.3-rc1 Released With Big Improvements For AMD Radeon & Intel Graphics
The belated first release candidate of Mesa 24.3 is now available for testing of the upgraded OpenGL and Vulkan open-source drivers commonly used on Linux systems and elsewhere...
2024-11-08 20:34
Wine 9.21 Brings DirectPlay Network Enhancements, I/O Completion Fixes
Following a one week delay, Wine 9.21 has been released as the latest development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games and applications on Linux and other operating systems. We are also closing in on the approaching Wine 10.0...
2024-11-08 19:08
KDE Frameworks 6.8 Adds Breeze Icons for Typst Files and Fixes Many Bugs
KDE Frameworks 6.8 is now available with Breeze icons for Typst files, monochrome variants for a bunch of symbolic Breeze icons, as well as various bug fixes. Here's what's new! The post KDE Frameworks 6.8 Adds Breeze Icons for Typst Files and Fixes Ma...
2024-11-08 16:07
Calibre 7.2.1 Brings Read Aloud Fixes, New Audio Overlay
Calibre ebook manager, converter, and reader is out with a new update, and it adds an enticing sounding new feature. For a while now Calibre has offered a ‘read aloud’ feature that does exactly what you think it does: a computer voice reads the tex...
2024-11-08 15:45
Calibre 7.21 Brings Read Aloud Fixes, New Audio Overlay
Calibre ebook manager, converter, and reader is out with a new update, and it adds an enticing sounding new feature. For a while now Calibre has offered a ‘read aloud’ feature that does exactly what you think it does: a computer voice reads the tex...
2024-11-08 15:45
Contribute at the Test Week for the Anaconda Web UI Installer for Fedora Workstation
The Workstation team is working on the final integration of Anaconda Web UI Installer for Fedora Linux Workstation. As a result, the Fedora Workstation Working Group and QA teams have organized a test week from Monday, Nov 11, 2024 to Monday, Nov 18, 2...
2024-11-08 15:04
Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 Rolls Out with Wireless Display Improvements, Bug Fixes
Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 mobile operating system is now available with improved wireless display, support for newer generations of Android HAL, and other changes. The post Ubuntu Touch OTA-6 Rolls Out with Wireless Display Improvements, Bug Fixes appeared fi...
2024-11-08 12:26
OpenZFS 2.3-rc3 Adds JSON Output For Commonly Used Commands
OpenZFS 2.3 continues working its way toward release as a big step forward for this open-source ZFS file-system implementation for Linux and FreeBSD systems...
2024-11-08 12:02
Linux Fix Pending For Annoying Intel Lunar Lake Laptop Problems
A patch is working its way to the mainline Linux kernel for addressing an annoyance affecting new Intel Core Ultra 200V "Lunar Lake" laptops...
2024-11-08 11:33
Project Launches Recognition Platform
The openSUSE Project has announced the launch of a new initiative aimed at highlighting contributions of its diverse community members. Dubbed “Contributor in the Spotlight,” the project aims to feature a different contributor each month and showca...
2024-11-08 09:00
Google Axion CPU With GCE C4A vs. AWS Graviton4 Performance
Last week Google announced the general availability of their C4A instances powered by their in-house Axion processors. I delivered launch-day benchmarks looking at the Google Axion CPU performance with the C4A instances compared to other Google Cloud i...
2024-11-08 09:00
Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted To Same Tier As GNOME-Based Fedora Workstation
Earlier this year was a Fedora change proposal seeking to make KDE Plasma the default over GNOME for Fedora 42. A compromise of sorts has now been settled on with the Fedora Desktop Spin being promoted to an "Edition" status that will put it on the sam...
2024-11-08 07:00
Intel Spots A 3888.9% Performance Improvement In The Linux Kernel From One Line Of Code
Intel's Linux kernel test robot has reported a 3888.9% performance improvement in the mainline Linux kernel as of this past week...
2024-11-08 06:40
Mesa 24.3 Code Branched, Mesa 25.0 Enters Development
Mesa 24.3 feature development is now over and Mesa 25.0 has entered development with Mesa Git...
2024-11-08 06:14