Firefox User Manages Experimental Browser Port To GTK4 Toolkit For four years there has been an open bug report for Mozilla Firefox requesting the browser's GTK widget support be updated for GTK4. An independent user/developer has taken it into his own hands and has managed to get Firefox using the GTK4 toolkit up and running on Linux... image
GNOME 48 Beta Released With HDR Bits, gdctl, Adwaita Fonts Default & More The GNOME 48 Beta release was officially announced this morning as the latest stepping stone toward the official GNOME 48 desktop release due out in mid-March... image
Karol Herbst Steps Down As Nouveau Maintainer Due To Linux Kernel's Toxic Environment Karol Herbst has been a Nouveau driver developer for over a decade working on this open-source, reverse-engineered NVIDIA Linux graphics driver. He went on to become employed by Red Hat. While he's known more these days for his work on Mesa and the Rusticl OpenCL driver for it, he's still remained a maintainer of the Nouveau kernel driver. But today he ann… image
Go 1.24 Brings Performance Improvements, Better WebAssembly Support Go 1.24 was released this week by Google engineers as the newest step forward for this popular programming language... image
Fwupd 2.0.6 Adds Support For HPE Gen10/Gen10+ Servers Fwupd 2.0.6 is out today as the newest update to this widely-used open-source solution for system and peripheral device firmware updating under Linux... image
GNOME Software May Eventually Drop RPM Support In Favor Of Flatpaks Stemming from the ongoing discussion around the issues raised with Fedora's Flatpak package of OBS Studio and how Flatpaks should be prioritized within the GNOME Software app center/store, the future of RPM support within GNOME Software raised... image
OBS Studio Raises Issues With Fedora's Flatpak Package The OBS Studio open-source screencasting and streaming app has called out Fedora's poor Flatpak packaging of the application and is threatening as going as far as legal action if it isn't addressed... image
Zed Editor Introduces Open-Source "Zeta" Edit Prediction Model The Zed code editor for macOS and Linux systems has proven to be quite popular for this Rust-based editor started by the creators of the Atom editor. Their latest feature being introduced is Zeta as an open-source edit prediction model to further enhance this code editor with AI capabilities... image
Hector Martin Resigns From The Asahi Linux Project Last week Hector Martin resigned from upstream maintainership of the Apple Silicon code for the Linux kernel. At the time he was still going to contribute to the Asahi Linux project's downstream kernel but in a surprise move today, he has decided to resign as project leader of Asahi Linux... image
Wayland Color Management & HDR Protocol Support Merged As a quick follow-up to the article earlier today... The Wayland Color Management and HDR protocol support is now merged to upstream Wayland Protocols!.. image