Ubuntu Developers Begin Working On Snapdragon X1 Elite Support With the mainline Linux kernel beginning to see DeviceTree support for a few Snapdragon X1 powered laptops like the ASUS Vivobook S15 and Lenovo Yoga Slim7x, Ubuntu developers at Canonical appear to be beginning their exploration around supporting some of the Snapdragon X1 hardware with Ubuntu Linux... image
Fedora 42 On 64-bit ARM Might Make It Seamless To Run x86/x86_64 Programs As one of the early feature proposals for Fedora 42, there is a proposal being considered to make for a nice out-of-the-box experience running x86/x86_64 game/application binaries atop Fedora 42 AArch64 hosts... image
Fedora 42 Will Try Again To Use The New Anaconda Installer's Web UI With Fedora 41 working its way to release toward the end of October, some early feature/change proposals for Fedora 42 are being filed for what will be the Fedora Linux release out next spring... image
KDE Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 Brings New Capabilities Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 is out today for providing the set of Wayland protocol XML files for currently non-standard protocols that are relied upon by the Plasma desktop with KWin compositor... image
Device Tree Patches Posted For Review To Boot Linux On Apple A7 To A11 Devices Device Tree patches have been posted to the Linux kernel mailing list for review and possible upstreaming to the mainline Linux kernel for booting Apple iPhones, iPads, and iPods that use the A7 to A11 SoCs... image
Verso Taking Shape As A Servo-Powered Web Browser With Mozilla having backed away from the Servo web engine years ago and recent open-source development on Servo focused on making it suitable for embed purposes into other applications/software, it's remained to be picked up by any standalone web browser project. But taking shape over the past few months has been Verso as a ground-up build of a new Rust-based web browser making use of Servo.… image
Intel QATlib 24.09 Improves Performance For Multi-Threaded Apps & Multi-Socket Servers Intel today released a new version of QATlib, the QuickAssist Technology library for enjoying hardware-accelerated offloading of security, authentication, and compression needs. Recent Intel Xeon CPUs with built-in QAT accelerators stand to benefit a lot from the new QATlib 24.09 release... image
GNOME 47 Release Candidate Brings Last Minute Changes The GNOME 47 release candidate was announced a short time ago in preparing for the stable GNOME 47 stable desktop coming up... image
KDE Squeezes A Few More Features Into The Plasma 6.2 Desktop While KDE developers this weekend are busy attending Akademy 2024 as their annual developer conference taking place in Würzburg, Germany, prior to that there were a few last minute features merged for the upcoming Plasma 6.2 desktop... image
Slimbook KDE Plasma VI Laptop Announced - Powered By AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS The Slimbook crew shared on Twitter/X that they are showing off the new Slimbook 6 (Slimbook VI) laptop this weekend during the KDE Akademy conference taking place in the wonderful Würzburg, Germany. This new Slimbook laptop features an AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS SoC and of course uses the KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment out-of-the-box... image