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FreeBSD 13.5 Beta 3 Drops KDE Packages From DVD ISOs
FreeBSD 13.5 Beta 3 is out this weekend in being the newest weekly development version leading towards next month's stable release to cap off the FreeBSD 13 series...
2025-02-22 06:49
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Niri 25.02 & Labwc 0.8.3 Wayland Compositors Released
The Niri and Labwc Wayland compositor projects are both out with new releases this weekend to further their efforts...
2025-02-22 06:41
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KDE Plasma 6.4 Preps Improvement To Help KWin Reduce Frame Drops
In addition to this week's release of Plasma 6.3.1, KDE developers have been busy preparing more bug fixes for what will become Plasma 6.3.2 next month. Additionally, more feature code for Plasma 6.4 continues to bake...
2025-02-22 06:28
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Ubuntu 25.04 Working To Better Cope With BitLocker-Enabled Windows, Other Improvements
Jean Baptiste Lallement was recently appointed at Canonical as the new Director of Engineering for Ubuntu Desktop. Jean Baptiste Lallement has a decade and a half history at Canonical working on Ubuntu QA, Ubuntu Phone / Unity, and other projects while...
2025-02-22 00:00
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COSMIC Desktop Alpha 6 Released with Many Changes
A new alpha release of System76’s emergent Rust-based COSMIC Desktop environment is out with a clutch of important improvements, bug fixes, and new features. Although very much a work-in-progress, unfinished, and lacking polish, COSMIC desktop is alr...
2025-02-21 21:44
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Firefox 137 To Support HEVC/H.265 Video Playback On Linux With VA-API
Anticipated for the April release of the Mozilla Firefox 137 web browser is finally supporting HEVC (H.265) video playback in an accelerated manner using the Video Acceleration API (VA-API)...
2025-02-21 20:33
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Wine 10.2 Upgrades VKD3D, Supports Setting Thread Priorities
Following last month's release of Wine 10.0 one month ago, Wine 10.2 is now available as the newest bi-weekly development release that will culminate with the Wine 11.0 stable release in early 2026...
2025-02-21 19:25
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System76 Releases COSMIC Alpha 6 Desktop Environment
System76 engineers remain quite busy working on their Rust-written COSMIC desktop environment to be used by their Pop!_OS operating system as well as other Linux distributions moving forward...
2025-02-21 13:34
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Linux's FineIBT Protections "Critically Flawed" Until Intel CPUs Appear With FRED
FineIBT is a Linux kernel initiative led by Intel engineers that aimed to combine the best of Intel Control-flow Enforcement Technology (CET) and Control Flow Integrity. FineIBT was merged in 2022 for the Linux 6.2 kernel as an alternative control flow...
2025-02-21 11:28
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Benchmarks: Excellent Power Efficiency With 5th Gen AMD EPYC Using amd-pstate & Power Profiles
The AMD EPYC 9005 "Turin" processors that launched last year offer excellent performance and power efficiency out-of-the-box. For those wanting to pursue maximum power efficiency and running in the most optimal configuration for performance-per-Watt, A...
2025-02-21 09:00
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Ubuntu 25.04 Working On More Improvements For Snapdragon X1 Elite Laptop Support
We are nearing one year since the first Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops shipped with Windows 11 ARM. For the upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 release it's looking like more of these ARM-powered laptops will have somewhat usable support at least for those wan...
2025-02-21 08:30
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PCSX2 Enables Wayland Support By Default - After Previously Calling It "Super Broken"
The latest open-source project enabling Wayland support by default today is PCSX2 as the PlayStation 2 game emulator for Linux and other platforms...
2025-02-21 07:30
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Gentoo Linux Announces Official QCOW2 Images For Cloud VMs
One of the Linux distributions we hear very little about in the industry for cloud/VM usage is Gentoo Linux. But that could change with the Gentoo project now putting out official QCOW2 disk images to make it easier deploying this source-based Linux di...
2025-02-21 06:54
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Z3fold & Zbud Allocators Likely To Be Removed In Linux 6.15
It's looking like Linux 6.15 will be the kernel that does away with the Z3fold and Zbud allocators...
2025-02-21 06:42
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Ubuntu 25.04 Now Under Feature Freeze Ahead Of April Release
The Ubuntu 25.04 feature freeze is now in effect as Canonical and the Ubuntu Linux developer community work toward releasing the "Plucky Puffin" in April...
2025-02-21 06:18
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Chromium Ozone Support For Wayland Continues Progressing In 2025
Google engineers themselves haven't been energetically pursuing Wayland support within the Ozone abstraction layer for the Chrome/Chromium web browser but thankfully the consulting firm Igalia continues pushing this native Wayland support along. Nick Y...
2025-02-21 06:06
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Linus Torvalds Clearly Lays Out Linux Maintainer Roles - Or Not - Around Rust Code
The Linux kernel mailing list drama around the Rust programming language use within the kernel continues... Linus Torvalds has largely refrained from the ongoing LKML discussions around a Rust policy for the Linux kernel and in-fighting between kernel ...
2025-02-20 20:34
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Mesa's Zink Driver Enables cl_khr_gl_sharing, Working On DaVinci Resolve Support
Mesa's generic Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver has landed support for cl_khr_gl_sharing, the extension that allows using OpenGL buffer / texture / render-buffer objects as OpenCL memory objects for better interoperability between the OpenGL and OpenCL API...
2025-02-20 15:07
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Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS is Available to Download
The Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS release is now available to download, albeit one week later than initially planned. Serving as the second point release in the current Ubuntu 24.04 LTS series, Ubuntu 24.04.2 compacts the slew of security, bug, and software upda...
2025-02-20 14:15
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Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS Is Now Available for Download Powered by Linux Kernel 6.11
Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS is now available for download as the second point release to the long-term supported Ubuntu 24.04 LTS (Noble Numbat) operating system series with up-to-date components. The post Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS Is Now Available for Download Powere...
2025-02-20 13:29
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