Intel Touch Host Controller Drivers Nearing The Mainline Linux Kernel For the past several months Intel Linux software engineers have been working on Intel Touch Host Controller drivers as an IP block on the PCH for handling touchscreen, touchpad, and related touch input devices. On Sunday the fourth iteration of these driver patches were sent out as these new Intel open-source drivers near the mainline Linux kernel...

Intel Touch Host Controller Drivers Nearing The Mainline Linux Kernel - Phoronix

For the past several months Intel Linux software engineers have been working on Intel Touch Host Controller drivers as an IP block on the PCH for h...

GNOME Now Has Refine As An Alternative To GNOME Tweaks, Phosh 0.44 Released There weren't too many changes this week for the GNOME project given the end of year holidays wrapping up and many taking time off. But This Week in GNOME is out with its newest issue to highlight the interesting desktop changes that did get made...

GNOME Now Has Refine As An Alternative To GNOME Tweaks, Phosh 0.44 Released - Phoronix

There weren't too many changes this week for the GNOME project given the end of year holidays wrapping up and many taking time off

systemd Saw A Record Number Of Commits In 2024 While systemd has been around for a decade and a half, it's showing no signs of slowing down for driving new innovations to Linux for this system and service manager...

systemd Saw A Record Number Of Commits In 2024 - Phoronix

While systemd has been around for a decade and a half, it's showing no signs of slowing down for driving new innovations to Linux for this sys...

X.Org Server Development Hit A Decade High For The Number Of Commits In 2024 To much surprise, the X.Org Server Git tree saw the most commits in 2024 going all the way back to 2014... While there were many more commits than in years prior, it's not a sign of resurgence for the X.Org Server with Wayland continuing to become the dominant force on the Linux desktop...

X.Org Server Development Hit A Decade High For The Number Of Commits In 2024 - Phoronix

To much surprise, the X.Org Server Git tree saw the most commits in 2024 going all the way back to 2014..

Arch Linux Had A Great Year With Valve's Continued Backing, EndeavourOS & CachyOS Boost The Arch Linux project appears to have enjoyed a rather robust and successful 2024 with Valve continuing to make use of it as a base for their SteamOS distribution and now engaging more with upstream Arch Linux. Downstreams like CachyOS, Manjaro, and EndeavourOS continue to make it an appealing choice for enthusiasts and gamers. And then the continued…

Arch Linux Had A Great Year With Valve's Continued Backing, EndeavourOS & CachyOS Boost - Phoronix

The Arch Linux project appears to have enjoyed a rather robust and successful 2024 with Valve continuing to make use of it as a base for their Stea...

Microsoft Continued With Many Linux & Open-Source Announcements In 2024 This year was another interesting year for Microsoft with continuing to make more of their software projects open-source, adding more Unix/Linux-like features to Windows, continuing to advance Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL), keeping up with maintenance on their Azure Linux distribution, and other unexpected open-source/Linux surprises...

Microsoft Continued With Many Linux & Open-Source Announcements In 2024 - Phoronix

This year was another interesting year for Microsoft with continuing to make more of their software projects open-source, adding more Unix/Linux-li...

Xfce 4.20, COSMIC Alpha & LXQt 2 Led Alternative Open-Source Desktops In 2024 In addition to all the GNOME advancements and KDE excitement with shipping Plasma 6 this year, other alternative open-source desktop environments enjoyed much success too this year... System76's Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment for their Pop!_OS Linux distribution reached alpha form, Xfce 4.20 released earlier this month, LXQt 2.0 and 2.1 debuted, and other imp…

Xfce 4.20, COSMIC Alpha & LXQt 2 Led Alternative Open-Source Desktops In 2024 - Phoronix

In addition to all the GNOME advancements and KDE excitement with shipping Plasma 6 this year, other alternative open-source desktop environments e...

AMD's GPUOpen Vulkan Memory Allocator Now Supports Vulkan 1.4 AMD's GPUOpen team managed to squeeze in a new Vulkan Memory Allocator release into 2024. As a reminder this is a easy to use/integrate Vulkan memory allocation library for both Windows and Linux systems with hopes of making memory allocation and resource creation more easier like with Direct3D 11 and OpenGL...

AMD's GPUOpen Vulkan Memory Allocator Now Supports Vulkan 1.4 - Phoronix

AMD's GPUOpen team managed to squeeze in a new Vulkan Memory Allocator release into 2024

Linux 6.13-rc5 Released To Cap Off Linus Torvalds' Birthday Week The holiday between Christmas and New Year's is... Linus Torvalds' birthday on 28 December. Capping off the Linux creator's 55th birthday week is the Linux 6.13-rc5 kernel release...

Linux 6.13-rc5 Released To Cap Off Linus Torvalds' Birthday Week - Phoronix

The holiday between Christmas and New Year's is..

Kdenlive Preparing For An Exciting 2025 With Background Removal Tool & More The KDE app Kdenlive that is a very popular and featureful open-source video editor is preparing for an exciting 2025...

Kdenlive Preparing For An Exciting 2025 With Background Removal Tool & More - Phoronix

The KDE app Kdenlive that is a very popular and featureful open-source video editor is preparing for an exciting 2025.