NVIDIA 575.64 Linux Driver Released With A Few Fixes NVIDIA today released a new version of their R575 series stable Linux driver to provide a few additional fixes for customers...

NVIDIA 575.64 Linux Driver Released With A Few Fixes - Phoronix

NVIDIA today released a new version of their R575 series stable Linux driver to provide a few additional fixes for customers.

KDE Plasma 6.4 Desktop Released With Many Fantastic Improvements KDE Plasma 6.4 is out today with many fantastic improvements for this open-source desktop...

KDE Plasma 6.4 Desktop Released With Many Fantastic Improvements - Phoronix

KDE Plasma 6.4 is out today with many fantastic improvements for this open-source desktop.

Intel THC Linux Driver Ready To Support Wake-on-Touch "WoT" Merged for Linux 6.14 at the beginning of the year were the Intel THC drivers for supporting the Touch Host Controller IP found in modern Intel Core Ultra laptops for dealing with the touchpad, touchscreen, and related touch-control functionality. This open-source driver is still being built-out ahead of next-generation Core Ultra laptops hitting the market...

Intel THC Linux Driver Ready To Support Wake-on-Touch "WoT" - Phoronix

Merged for Linux 6.14 at the beginning of the year were the Intel THC drivers for supporting the Touch Host Controller IP found in modern Intel Cor...

Dbus-Broker 37 Released For High Performance & Reliable D-Bus The Dbus-Broker project from the BUS1/systemd developers is out with its first update in more than one year for this D-Bus implementation that aims to be more reliable and higher performing than D-Bus itself...

Dbus-Broker 37 Released For High Performance & Reliable D-Bus - Phoronix

The Dbus-Broker project from the BUS1/systemd developers is out with its first update in more than one year for this D-Bus implementation that aims...

Intel Mesa Drivers Now Properly Report Battlemage BMG-G31 GPUs Posted by Intel engineers a few days ago were a Mesa patch to begin recognizing some Intel Battlemage graphics cards as being the larger "BMG G31" variant. This evening those patches were merged for Mesa 25.2 for what's rumored to be potentially the Arc B770 graphics cards to launch later in the year...

Intel Mesa Drivers Now Properly Report Battlemage BMG-G31 GPUs - Phoronix

Posted by Intel engineers a few days ago were a Mesa patch to begin recognizing some Intel Battlemage graphics cards as being the larger 'BMG ...

Rust Surveying Developers To Find Biggest Compiler Performance Issues Rust developers acknowledge lengthy compiler times can be a significant issue that limits the productivity of developers working with this programming language. For helping in determining different combinations of issues around compiler performance, the Rust team has started a survey to collect more information on the issues...

Rust Surveying Developers To Find Biggest Compiler Performance Issues - Phoronix

Rust developers acknowledge lengthy compiler times can be a significant issue that limits the productivity of developers working with this programm...

Linux 6.17 Looks Like It Could Go Ahead And Make SMP Support Unconditional Back in May a big patch series was published for reworking the Linux kernel to make the SMP support unconditional. Right now those that happen to be running Linux in a uniprocessor (1 CPU core) configuration can build with "CONFIG_SMP" disabled but the proposed patches would make symmetric multi-processing support always present. Those patches took a step forward…

Linux 6.17 Looks Like It Could Go Ahead And Make SMP Support Unconditional - Phoronix

Back in May a big patch series was published for reworking the Linux kernel to make the SMP support unconditional

The Latest X.Org Server Activity Are A Lot Of Code Reverts The X.Org Server has been seeing a lot of commits this week... to revert bad code...

The Latest X.Org Server Activity Are A Lot Of Code Reverts - Phoronix

The X.Org Server has been seeing a lot of commits this week..

SDL Merges Wayland Pointer Warp Support To Help Native Wayland Gaming Introduced with this week's Wayland Protocols 1.45 release is adding the Pointer Warp protocol to staging. The SDL hardware/software abstraction library commonly used by cross-platform games was quick to merge support for using the native Pointer Warp protocol on Wayland...

SDL Merges Wayland Pointer Warp Support To Help Native Wayland Gaming - Phoronix

Introduced with this week's Wayland Protocols 1.45 release is adding the Pointer Warp protocol to staging

GNOME's Busy Week With Disabling X11 Session By Default, Greater systemd Dependence This Week in GNOME is out with its latest issue and there being a number of recent controversial changes to the desktop platform...

GNOME's Busy Week With Disabling X11 Session By Default, Greater systemd Dependence - Phoronix

This Week in GNOME is out with its latest issue and there being a number of recent controversial changes to the desktop platform.