Wayland's Weston 14.0 Compositor Released Weston 14.0 was released today as the newest feature release for this reference Wayland compositor... image
New Patches Bring Rust Linux Kernel Support To MIPS When it comes to the Rust programming language support within the Linux kernel one of the limitations is that the CPU architecture support isn't as widespread. Currently Rust for Linux supports x86_64, AArch64 (ARM64) little-endian, LoongArch, and RISC-V. While those cover the main targets, POWER is notably missing and many other niche CPU architectures supported by the Linux kernel… image
AMD Ryzen 9000 Series & Linux Kernel Drama Made For An Exciting August August was a very busy month with the first AMD Ryzen 9000 series "Zen 5" desktop processors going on sale, finally having AmpereOne 192-core Arm processors in the lab, Linux kernel development continuing to advance at a brisk pace, and a variety of other interesting software and hardware milestones. On Phoronix for the month were 213 original news articles authored by me… image
Wayland Protocols 1.37 Introduces Three New Protocols Jonas Γ…dahl released Wayland-Protocols 1.37 as the newest update to this defined set of Wayland protocols. With the new release there are three new protocols added plus various other maintenance items addressed within the Wayland-Protocols repository... image
Intel Battlemage Battles More Linux 6.12 Kernel Graphics Driver Changes Following the pull request from earlier this week that enables Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake and Battlemage graphics by default for Linux 6.12, a final set of feature updates for the Intel kernel graphics driver have been submitted ahead of this next kernel cycle... image
Vulkan 1.3.295 Released With Compute Shader Derivatives Extension Following last week's Vulkan 1.3.294 with pipeline binary extension, Vulkan 1.3.295 is out today and it too introduces a prominent new extension... image
Microsoft Further Improves D3D12 Video Acceleration In Mesa Microsoft engineers continue contributing to the open-source Mesa graphics driver code for benefiting Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) usage and other related use atop Windows 11. The latest contribution to Mesa is wiring up direct DPB management for the D3D12 video acceleration code... image
GNU Screen 5.0 Released With Rewritten Authentication Mechanism The very useful GNU Screen program for multiplexing terminals between processes is out with a shiny new feature release... image
LinkedIn Migrates Their Servers From CentOS To Azure Linux LinkedIn has replaced CentOS as their default server operating system choice with Azure Linux to power all of their server needs... image
Cemu 2.1 Emulator Released With Flatpaks & AppImage For Linux, Initial Wayland Support Cemu is the Wii U emulator that went open-source and began building on Linux two years ago. Since then they've continued building up their Linux support and out today is the Cemu 2.1 emulator release with even better Linux support... image