KDE Plasma 6.3 Improving Game Controller Joystick Support, Many Fixes While the Christmas holidays are quickly approach, KDE developers remain busy working on new features for the upcoming Plasma 6.3 desktop as well as continuing to land many bug fixes... image
Wayland Protocols 1.39 Released With Data Control & Workspace Additions Jonas Ådahl of Red Hat just released Wayland Protocols 1.39 as the latest set of updates to this de facto repository for Wayland protocols... image
Fish Shell 4.0 Beta Released With C++ Code Ported To Rust The Fish Shell as the interactive, user-friendly command line shell debuted its 4.0 beta release ahead of the holidays. Notably in this release is porting the C++ code over to the Rust programming language... image
AMD Preps Many Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 6.14, DRM Panic Support AMD today sent out a first batch of "new stuff" feature patches to DRM-Next of new code for their AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver of material for the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle... image
System76 Releases Updated AMD Ryzen Linux Laptop System76 has been offering AMD-powered Linux laptops for a few years now and before rounding out 2024 they have announced the new Pangolin "Pang15" laptop with an updated SoC, 2K display with 16:10 screen ratio and 120Hz refresh rate, and other refinements to this all-aluminum build Linux laptop... image
Linux 6.1 LTS Kernel To Receive An Extra Year Of Support Greg Kroah-Hartman has decided to extend the Linux 6.1 LTS planned lifespan from four to five years... image
Qt 6.9 Beta Released With New Toolkit Features Qt 6.9 beta is out today as the first test release for this updated Qt6 toolkit... image
VKD3D-Proton 2.14 Released With New Features For D3D12 On Vulkan Hans-Kristian Arntzen with Valvej ust released VKD3D-Proton 2.14 as the newest version of this Direct3D 12 implementation built atop the Vulkan API for Valve's Steam Play (Proton)... image
Fedora COSMIC Desktop Spin Proposed For Fedora 42 A new "Fedora COSMIC" spin of Fedora Linux has been proposed that would feature the Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment currently being developed by Linux PC vendor System76... image
Linux Mint 22.1 Beta Released With Cinnamon 6.4 Desktop, Updated Apt Code The beta release of Linux Mint 22.1 "Xia" is now available for testing of this desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu LTS releases and known for its Cinnamon desktop environment... image