Wine-Staging 9.21 Fixes Some Old Game Crashes & Hangs Due To DirectMusic Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.21, Wine-Staging 9.21 is available as this experimental blend of Wine that carries extra patches for testing/evaluation to enhance the ability for Windows games and apps to run on Linux...

Wine-Staging 9.21 Fixes Some Old Game Crashes & Hangs Due To DirectMusic - Phoronix

Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.21, Wine-Staging 9.21 is available as this experimental blend of Wine that carries extra patches for t...

Niri 0.1.10 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Brings Many Improvements If this weekend's release of Hyprland 0.45 doesn't suit your fancy, Niri is also out this weekend with a new feature release. Niri is the scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor for an interesting Linux desktop experience...

Niri 0.1.10 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Brings Many Improvements - Phoronix

If this weekend's release of Hyprland 0.45 doesn't suit your fancy, Niri is also out this weekend with a new feature release

Debian 12.8 Released With Many Bug Fixes & Security Updates Debian 12.8 is out today as the latest media refresh for the "Bookworm" release with numerous security fixes along with other general bug fixes included as part of the assortment of package updates...

Debian 12.8 Released With Many Bug Fixes & Security Updates - Phoronix

Debian 12.8 is out today as the latest media refresh for the 'Bookworm' release with numerous security fixes along with other general bug...

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...

NVIDIA Outlines Current Wayland Limitations & Upcoming Driver Features - Phoronix

Longtime NVIDIA Linux engineer Aaron Plattner shared a status update on Friday around the current feature parity difference between the NVIDIA driv...

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...

Linux 6.13 Bringing DRM Panic Support To NVIDIA GPUs - Phoronix

Friday saw a final round of 'drm-misc-next' feature updates ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel merge window

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 same level as the GNOME-based Fedora Workstation Edition...

Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted To Same Tier As GNOME-Based Fedora Workstation - Phoronix

Earlier this year was a Fedora change proposal seeking to make KDE Plasma the default over GNOME for Fedora 42

GIMP 3.2 Will Aim To Be Out Within One Year Of GIMP 3.0 Following the GIMP 3.0-RC1 tagging, the GIMP project has now put out their lengthy write-up outlining many of the new features to enjoy with this first release candidate of the much anticipated GIMP 3.0. Plus there is a few words about future releases when moving past the upcoming GIMP 3.0 stable...

GIMP 3.2 Will Aim To Be Out Within One Year Of GIMP 3.0 - Phoronix

Following the GIMP 3.0-RC1 tagging, the GIMP project has now put out their lengthy write-up outlining many of the new features to enjoy with this f...

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Linux Performance: Zen 5 With 3D V-Cache Ahead of tomorrow's availability of the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor as the first Zen 5 CPU released with 3D V-Cache, today the review embargo lifts. Here is a look at how this 8-core / 16-thread Zen 5 CPU with 64MB of 3D V-Cache is performing under Ubuntu Linux compared to a variety of other Intel Core and AMD Ryzen desktop processors.

AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Linux Performance: Zen 5 With 3D V-Cache Review - Phoronix

Ahead of tomorrow's availability of the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor as the first Zen 5 CPU released with 3D V-Cache, today the review embarg...

cURL 8.11 Released With Official WebSockets Support The cURL 8.11 release is now available for this widely-used open-source software library and CLI utility used for downloads and supporting a variety of network protocols for file transfers. Most notable with cURL 8.11 is sporting official WebSockets support...

cURL 8.11 Released With Official WebSockets Support - Phoronix

The cURL 8.11 release is now available for this widely-used open-source software library and CLI utility used for downloads and supporting a variet...

Platform Profile Support Coming For Newer Dell/Alienware Laptops With Linux 6.13 Select newer Dell/Alienware laptops with a "WMAX" thermal interface will see ACPI Platform Profile support now exposed with the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle...

Platform Profile Support Coming For Newer Dell/Alienware Laptops With Linux 6.13 - Phoronix

Select newer Dell/Alienware laptops with a 'WMAX' thermal interface will see ACPI Platform Profile support now exposed with the upcoming ...