GNOME 48 Release Candidate Brings Late Mutter Features & Other Changes The GNOME 48 release candidate "48.rc" is out this evening as we approach the stable release of the GNOME 48 desktop in two weeks... image
AMD Officially Confirms Ryzen 9 9900X3D + Ryzen 9 9950X3D Pricing & Availability Back in January at CES was the Ryzen 9 9000X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D announcement while today AMD officially confirmed the release date and pricing on these new Zen 5 desktop CPUs with 3D V-Cache... image
FreeBSD Continues Working On 802.11n/802.11ac WiFi & Other Laptop Improvements The FreeBSD Foundation paired with resources committed by AMD, Dell, and Framework are working to improve FreeBSD laptop support. In recent months there have been FreeBSD development efforts to improve the power management support with modern laptops as well as a strong focus on enhancing the WiFi driver support. A status update was issued yesterday for hi… image
Xen 4.20 Hypervisor Released With AMD Zen 5 Support, More Performance Optimizations The Xen Project announced the availability today of the Xen 4.20 virtualization hypervisor... image
Making Vulkan More Of A "Joy To Use" Discussed At Vulkanised 2025 In addition to Vulkan-powered AI / machine learning talks at last month's Vulkanised 2025 conference, another interesting topic at this annual Vulkan developer conference was around improving the Vulkan API and making it easier for new developers and maximizing the potential with new GPU hardware... image
FreeDesktop.org GitLab Will Be Down For Up To One Week Due To Cloud Migration The FreeDesktop.org GitLab instance that is heavily relied upon for the development of the Mesa graphics drivers, Wayland, and many other Linux desktop projects will be down for up to one week later this month due to its cloud migration... image
Linux 6.15 Preparing Support For The XP-Pen Artist Pro 19, A Big 4K Drawing Tablet Linux already supports a number of XP-Pen drawing tablets while the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel is set to include support for another one: the XP-Pen Artist Pro 19. This XP-Pen Artist Pro 19 is a big, 4K resolution display drawing tablet that retails for nearly $800 USD and features dual stylus, 16K pressure levels, and a nice display for this 19-inch … image
Perforator 0.0.5 Released - Switches To Apache 2.0 License, Drops CLA Requirement Open-sourced back in January was the Yandex Perforator as a new software project for uncovering code inefficiencies and potentially "save billions of dollars" in expenses. Perforator has continued evolving since its open-source announcement and out today is Perforator 0.0.5 as the latest milestone... image
Godot 4.4 Open-Source Game Engine Released With Many Improvements Godot 4.4 is out as stable today for serving as the newest feature release to this leading open-source, cross-platform 2D/3D game engine... image
GNOME Mutter 48.rc Released With Wayland Color Management, Dynamic Triple Buffering Ahead of the GNOME 48 stable release due out later this month, tagged now is the Mutter "48.rc" release candidate milestone. While the feature freeze passed last month, there has been a lot of last minute improvements merged for Mutter to squeeze into this GNOME 48 release... image