SUSE's "Agama" OS Installer Receives Pleasant Facelift, Future Roadmap SUSE's Agama project is their modern OS installer featuring a web-based UI that will serve as the installer of SUSE/openSUSE in future releases moving forward. Agama 12 is now available as the newest iteration of this operating system installer and there is also now a public road-map concerning future development plans... image
Git 2.49-rc0 Released With "git backfill", zlib-ng Preparations & Rust Interface Git maintainer Junio C Hamano announced Git 2.49-rc0 today as an early preview release for the next version of this widely-used, distributed version control system... image
FineIBT-BHI Looks To Be Ready Ahead Of Linux 6.15 To Provide Tougher Kernel Defenses FineIBT-BHI as a means of tougher kernel defenses for fending off Branch History Injection (BHI) looks like it will be ready for upstreaming in next month's Linux 6.15 merge window... image
Mesa's Vulkan WSI Now Supports Wayland Color Management Adding to the flurry of open-source work recently around the merged Wayland color management protocol for supporting HDR, the Mesa Vulkan Windowing System Integration (WSI) code has added support for this protocol... image
GNOME 48 Mutter Merges Wayland's wp_color_management_v1 Support As an exciting late addition to the GNOME 48 codebase ahead of its stable release in mid-March, the Wayland color management "wp_color_management_v1" protocol support has been merged!.. image
Jolla Releases Sailfish OS 5.0 With WireGuard VPN, Updated Android Compatibility For those intrigued by Jolla's Linux-based Sailfish OS mobile phone operating system, Sailfish OS 5.0 is officially out today as the latest iteration of this software stack... image
GNU Emacs 30.1 Released With Android Support, Emacs Lisp Native Compiler By Default GNU Emacs 30.1 is out today as the newest version of this extensible text editor... image
AMD Preparing New GPU Support For Their Kernel Graphics Driver In Linux 6.15 AMD has sent out their initial pull request of "new stuff" for their AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver of feature additions they want to make for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel. Most notable from this week's submission to DRM-Next is preparing a lot of new GPU hardware support... image
OneXPlayer Linux Driver Catching Up To The Windows Monitoring Driver OneXPlayer produces a line of handheld gaming consoles powered by AMD or Intel SoCs. These devices ship with Windows out-of-the-box but given they are x86_64 software have worked alright with Linux and there's been a OneXPlayer Linux driver for supporting sensor readings and other device-specific information from these handhelds. In a big patch series this weekend, t… image
Wine Staging 10.2 Adds Support For AF_UNIX Sockets Following Friday's release of Wine 10.2, Wine Staging 10.2 is out for testing as this more experimental/leading-edge version of Wine that is shipping with 300+ extra patches for testing... image