Rust 1.86 Released With Trait Upcasting, Deprecates i586-PC-Windows-MSVC Rust 1.86 is now available today as the latest version of this popular programming language... image
Qt 6.9 Released With Performance Work, Better Emoji Handling & Greater Visualizations Qt 6.9 was just released as the newest version of this open-source, cross-platform graphics toolkit... image
KDE Plasma 6.3.4 Now Shipping With The Latest Crash Fixes KDE Plasma 6.3.4 shipped this morning as the newest monthly point release for the Plasma 6.3 desktop... image
Steam On Linux Shows A Wild Swing Back Up For March 2025 The Steam Survey results for February showed a 0.61% drop for Linux gaming marketshare following a 20.8% increase to the Chinese use, which was yet another month of such wild swings attributed to a large influx in Simplified Chinese survey respondents. The March results for Steam Survey were published this evening and show the Linux marketshare more than recovering now that the Englis… image
Early Features Approved For Fedora 43: Maven 4, RPM 6.0, JPEG-XL Wallpapers While Fedora 42 isn't being released until later in the month, already a number of new features for Fedora 43 have been granted approval by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee... image
Linux Patches Enable Support For The Snapdragon X1 Powered ASUS Zenbook A14 For those interested in the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 powered laptops, there's another option to consider for Linux use soon with pending patches: the ASUS Zenbook A14... image
Another New Intel Battlemage Device ID Added To Mesa Graphics Driver Code Merged today for the Mesa 25.1-devel graphics driver code and also marked for back-porting to the Mesa 25.0 OpenGL/Vulkan drivers is another new Intel Battlemage device ID... image
Wayland Is On Track For A Very Exciting 2025 While the first quarter is coming to an end, there has already been immense progress this year to the Wayland protocols and compositors along with associated Linux desktop software for embracing this alternative to legacy X11/X.Org. From HDR color management seeing much adoption this quarter to Wine Wayland becoming more viable and the large number of Wayland compositors maturing, it was a pretty incredi… image
wlroots Merges Wayland Color Management / HDR Support The wlroots library used by the Sway compositor and other Wayland compositors has merged support for the color-management-v1 protocol that is notable for enabling High Dynamic Range (HDR) display use under Linux... image
Linux 6.15 Wires Up SoundWire Bulk Register Access The in-development Linux 6.15 kernel is continuing to enhance its support for MIPI's SoundWire specification for small audio peripherals with this two-pin, low-complexity audio interface... image