System76’s COSMIC Working On Drag & Drop, More Compositor Improvements
System76 software engineers continue working heavily on their COSMIC desktop that is Rust-written and to debut with their Pop!_OS 24.04 release later this year… ⌘ Read more

MPV 0.38 Media Player Released With New Options & Fixes
MPV as the popular open-source media player forked from MPlayer/mplayer2 and leveraging FFmpeg is out with its newest release… ⌘ Read more

Wayland Protocols 1.35 Introduces Alpha Modifier Protocol, Tablet-V2 As Stable
Wayland Protocols 1.35 is out today as the newest update to this collection of Wayland protocol specifications… ⌘ Read more

LXQt 2.0 Released For Qt6 Desktop Port, Greater Wayland Support
LXQt 2.0 is now available for this lightweight desktop environment that has now been ported to the Qt 6.6+ toolkit. Additionally, much of the LXQt components are ready to be used under Wayland compositors… ⌘ Read more

Former Nouveau Lead Developer Joins NVIDIA, Continues Working On Open-Source Driver
Following last year Nouveau receiving support for running with the NVIDIA GSP firmware and initial GeForce RTX 40 series accelerated support, Ben Skeggs of Red Hat unexpectedly resigned as the Nouveau kernel driver maintainer. It turns out this longtime open-source Nouveau driver developer is now employed by NVIDIA Corp and continuing to work on the open-source Linux graphics driver… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.10 To Add Script For Building ARM64 Flat Image Trees
Queued as part of the ARM64 patches in the various “-next” branches ahead of the Linux 6.10 merge window is a script for being able to build Flat Image Trees (FITs). A Flat Image Tree is the compiled Linux kernel paired with the associated DeviceTree content that is compressed and easily then distributed and executed by capable bootloaders… ⌘ Read more

XWayland 24.1 RC Released With Explicit Sync, Improved Rootful & GLAMOR Optimizations
As expected, the first release candidate of the forthcoming XWayland 24.1 is now available ahead of its planned stable debut in May… ⌘ Read more

ROCm 6.1 Released With Ubuntu 22.04.4 Support, rocDecode For AMD Video Decode
The much anticipated ROCm 6.1 has now been released! ROCm 6.1 is heavy on new features as well as expanding official operating system coverage to include the latest Ubuntu 22.04.4 LTS point release… ⌘ Read more

Linux Foundation, Intel & Others Launch The Open Platform for Enterprise AI
The Linux Foundation along with industry stakeholders like Intel, Red Hat, Hugging Face, MariaDB, Cloudera, and others have launched the Open Platform for Enterprise AI (OPEA) as a new enterprise AI collaborative effort… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 24.04 Supports Easy Installation Of OpenZFS Root File-System With Encryption
For those wondering about the OpenZFS root file-system support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, it’s in-place with the Ubuntu desktop installer. Not only is it still there but now there’s also the ability to easily setup Ubuntu atop an OpenZFS encrypted root file-system… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 24.04 Supports Easy Installation Of OpenZFS Root File-System With Encryption
For those wondering about the OpenZFS root file-system support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS, it’s in-place with the Ubuntu desktop installer. Not only is it still there but now there’s also the ability to easily setup Ubuntu atop an OpenZFS encrypted root file-system… ⌘ Read more

Valkey Celebrates Its First Stable Release As Open-Source Redis Fork
Last month the Linux Foundation along with industry stakeholders such as AWS, Google Cloud, Snap, Oracle, and others formed Valkey as an open-source Redis fork following Redis moving to Redis Source Available License v2 and SSPL v1 licensing. Today they’ve released Valkey 7.2.5 as the first stable release for this open-source Redis fork… ⌘ Read more

KDE Plasma 6.0.4 Ships With Dozens Of Bug Fixes
It’s been three weeks since the Plasma 6.0.3 point release while today KDE has shipped Plasma 6.0.4 as its April bug-fix release… ⌘ Read more

AMD Announces Ryzen PRO 8840 & PRO 8000G Series CPUs
Following the launch of the Ryzen 8000G series processors earlier this year as well as the Ryzen 8840 series mobile processors, AMD has now announced the associated “PRO” parts for business customers. ⌘ Read more

Mesa 24.1 Now Supports Vulkan Explicit Synchronization On X11
At the start of April Mesa 24.1 saw Vulkan explicit sync support for Wayland implemented. Now hitting Mesa 24.1-devel today is Vulkan explicit sync support for X11/X.Org… ⌘ Read more

Mesa 24.1 Now Supports Vulkan Explicit Synchronization On X11
At the start of April Mesa 24.1 saw Vulkan explicit sync support for Wayland implemented. Now hitting Mesa 24.1-devel today is Vulkan explicit sync support for X11/X.Org… ⌘ Read more

Native BHI Mitigation Performance Benchmarks On Core i9 14900K Under Linux 6.9
With the new security mitigation for the “Native BHI” Spectre vulnerability affecting even the recent Intel processors, a number of Phoronix readers have been curious about the performance impact of the mitigation. Over the past week I’ve been running some benchmarks on recent Intel CPUs to better look into any performance implications… ⌘ Read more

More Bcachefs Fixes & Recovery Improvements Land In Linux 6.9
The Bcachefs fixes continue to come in on the heavier side for the in-development Linux 6.9 kernel… ⌘ Read more

AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta Restores Support For Some Hardware Deprecated By RHEL
AlmaLinux 9.4 Beta is out today for this popular community-oriented Linux distribution derived from upstream Red Hat Enterprise Linux. Besides pulling in the RHEL 9.4 Beta changes, AlmaLinux 9.4 also restores hardware support for some devices that was deprecated by upstream RHEL… ⌘ Read more

openSUSE Leap Micro 6 Reaches Alpha
openSUSE’s Leap Micro OS that caters to containerized and virtualized workloads by providing a lightweight and reliable foundation is embarking on its next major release. The openSUSE Leap Micro 6.0 operating system is now available in alpha form… ⌘ Read more

Linus Torvalds Injects Tabs To Thwart Kconfig Parsers Not Correctly Handling Them
Within yesterday’s Linux 6.9-rc4 release is an interesting little nugget by Linus Torvalds to battle Kconfig parsers that can’t correctly handle tabs but rather just assume spaces for whitespace for this kernel configuration format… ⌘ Read more

Fedora 41 Aims For More Reproducible Package Builds Thanks To A Rust Program
Continuing a trend worked on in recent Fedora Linux releases and more broadly in the open-source ecosystem at large for securing the software supply chain and ensuring unaltered binaries, Fedora 41 is aiming to ensure more reproducible package builds… ⌘ Read more

Firefox 125 Adds AV1 Support In Encrypted Media Extensions, Other New Features
Ahead of tomorrow’s official release announcement, the Firefox 125.0 release binaries have been uploaded to the Mozilla mirror this morning. Firefox 125.0 brings a number of new features and developer additions – more so than we’ve seen recently from the monthly Firefox releases… ⌘ Read more

Servo Driving Modularity To Eye Different JavaScript Engines
The Rust-based Servo web layout engine started by Mozilla that is now stewarded by the Linux Foundation and worked on by several different organizations is eyeing modularity support for its JavaScript integration. Currently Servo is closely tied to Mozilla’s SpiderMonkey JavaScript engine but with a modularity push could see other options supported… ⌘ Read more

Archinstall 2.8 Further Refines The Easy Arch Linux Installation Experience
Archinstall 2.8 is out today as the latest update to this easy-to-use, text-based Arch Linux installer that makes it much faster deploying this popular Linux distribution… ⌘ Read more