Niri 25.02 & Labwc 0.8.3 Wayland Compositors Released The Niri and Labwc Wayland compositor projects are both out with new releases this weekend to further their efforts...

Niri 25.02 & Labwc 0.8.3 Wayland Compositors Released - Phoronix

The Niri and Labwc Wayland compositor projects are both out with new releases this weekend to further their efforts.

Ubuntu 25.04 Working To Better Cope With BitLocker-Enabled Windows, Other Improvements Jean Baptiste Lallement was recently appointed at Canonical as the new Director of Engineering for Ubuntu Desktop. Jean Baptiste Lallement has a decade and a half history at Canonical working on Ubuntu QA, Ubuntu Phone / Unity, and other projects while now he is leading the charge on further enhancing the Ubuntu desktop initiatives. As somewhat of a mid-…

Ubuntu 25.04 Working To Better Cope With BitLocker-Enabled Windows, Other Improvements - Phoronix

Jean Baptiste Lallement was recently appointed at Canonical as the new Director of Engineering for Ubuntu Desktop

Ubuntu 25.04 Working On More Improvements For Snapdragon X1 Elite Laptop Support We are nearing one year since the first Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops shipped with Windows 11 ARM. For the upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 release it's looking like more of these ARM-powered laptops will have somewhat usable support at least for those wanting to avoid Intel Core Ultra or AMD Ryzen laptops...

Ubuntu 25.04 Working On More Improvements For Snapdragon X1 Elite Laptop Support - Phoronix

We are nearing one year since the first Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops shipped with Windows 11 ARM

PCSX2 Enables Wayland Support By Default - After Previously Calling It "Super Broken" The latest open-source project enabling Wayland support by default today is PCSX2 as the PlayStation 2 game emulator for Linux and other platforms...

PCSX2 Enables Wayland Support By Default - After Previously Calling It "Super Broken" - Phoronix

The latest open-source project enabling Wayland support by default today is PCSX2 as the PlayStation 2 game emulator for Linux and other platforms.

Rust 1.85 Release Stabilizes Rust 2024 Edition Rust 1.85 is out today and it is also the release that stabilizes the Rust 2024 Edition...

Rust 1.85 Release Stabilizes Rust 2024 Edition - Phoronix

Rust 1.85 is out today and it is also the release that stabilizes the Rust 2024 Edition.

Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS Now Available With Initial HWE Stack Following last week's delay due to a packaging mishap, Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS is available today as the newest point release for this current Long Term Support version of Ubuntu Linux...

Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS Now Available With Initial HWE Stack - Phoronix

Following last week's delay due to a packaging mishap, Ubuntu 24.04.2 LTS is available today as the newest point release for this current Long...

Zstd 1.5.7 Pushing Compression Performance Even Further Zstandard 1.5.7 was released a short time ago as the newest update to this widely-used compression algorithm backed by Meta. Zstd 1.5.7 packs more than 500 commits, including new performance optimizations and other enhancements...

Zstd 1.5.7 Pushing Compression Performance Even Further - Phoronix

Zstandard 1.5.7 was released a short time ago as the newest update to this widely-used compression algorithm backed by Meta

Fedora Rolling Out More RISC-V Infrastructure & Ready-To-Boot Images The Fedora Project is rolling out expanded coverage of RISC-V hardware moving forward and making it easier for those with RISC-V developer boards to run Fedora Linux...

Fedora Rolling Out More RISC-V Infrastructure & Ready-To-Boot Images - Phoronix

The Fedora Project is rolling out expanded coverage of RISC-V hardware moving forward and making it easier for those with RISC-V developer boards t...

VKD3D 1.15 Released With Better Tessellation Shader Support VKD3D 1.15 is out today as the newest version of this upstream Wine project for implementing the Microsoft Direct3D 12 APIs atop the Vulkan API for better Windows gaming on Linux and other D3D12 workloads on Linux or macOS when paired with MoltenVK...

VKD3D 1.15 Released With Better Tessellation Shader Support - Phoronix

VKD3D 1.15 is out today as the newest version of this upstream Wine project for implementing the Microsoft Direct3D 12 APIs atop the Vulkan API for...

Greg Kroah-Hartman Makes A Compelling Case For New Linux Kernel Drivers To Be Written In Rust The debate over the Linux kernel's Rust programming language policy continues... While some kernel maintainers are against it, Linus Torvalds has reportedly said he would override maintainers that may be against honoring Rust code. Linux's second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman has also been a big proponent of Rust kernel code. He's crafted another …

Greg Kroah-Hartman Makes A Compelling Case For New Linux Kernel Drivers To Be Written In Rust - Phoronix

The debate over the Linux kernel's Rust programming language policy continues..