Linux 6.17 Looks To Address An Old & Obscure Kernel Limitation From 1993 Assuming no objections are raised by Linus Torvalds, an early pull request has been submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window to address an obscure kernel limitation that has been in place going back all the way to 1993 during the Linux v0.99 kernel days...

Linux 6.17 Looks To Address An Old & Obscure Kernel Limitation From 1993 - Phoronix

Assuming no objections are raised by Linus Torvalds, an early pull request has been submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window to address a...

FFmpeg 8.0 Preparing For Release In August With Many Great Features We are just a few weeks out from seeing the release of the FFmpeg 8.0 multimedia library with many new features and improvements for this widely-used open-source software...

FFmpeg 8.0 Preparing For Release In August With Many Great Features - Phoronix

We are just a few weeks out from seeing the release of the FFmpeg 8.0 multimedia library with many new features and improvements for this widely-us...

KDE Plasma 6.5 Adds Notifications For Low Printer Ink Levels One week ago in the KDE Plasma land it was talking about rounded bottom corners for windows by default while this week in the KDE Plasma space is another long overdue feature: notifications for Plasma around low printer ink cartridge levels. The upcoming KDE Plasma 6.5 will finally feature built-in notifications on printer ink levels running low...

KDE Plasma 6.5 Adds Notifications For Low Printer Ink Levels - Phoronix

One week ago in the KDE Plasma land it was talking about rounded bottom corners for windows by default while this week in the KDE Plasma space is a...

Mesa 25.3 Merges Vulkan AMD Anti-Lag Support An exciting addition landing into the Mesa 25.3 codebase today is support for AMD's Vulkan anti-lag extension, VK_AMD_anti_lag...

Mesa 25.3 Merges Vulkan AMD Anti-Lag Support - Phoronix

An exciting addition landing into the Mesa 25.3 codebase today is support for AMD's Vulkan anti-lag extension, VK_AMD_anti_lag.

GNOME Foundry Taking Shape As "An IDE In A Box" With CLI Tooling Born out of his work on developing the GNOME Builder integrated development environment (IDE) over the past decade, one of the recent initiatives by GNOME developer Christian Hergert has been on Foundry, a new "IDE in a box" of sorts and with CLI tooling complementary to the GNOME Builder IDE graphical environment...

GNOME Foundry Taking Shape As "An IDE In A Box" With CLI Tooling - Phoronix

Born out of his work on developing the GNOME Builder integrated development environment (IDE) over the past decade, one of the recent initiatives b...

Wayback 0.1 Released As First Preview Release For X11 Compatibility Layer Announced just once month ago was Wayback as an X11 compatibility layer build atop Wayland components. In the past month Wayback has been off to a quick start with a goal of being production-ready next year and has also already became a project under the FreeDesktop.org umbrella. Today marks the release of Wayback 0.1 as the first preview release for this X11 compatibili…

Wayback 0.1 Released As First Preview Release For X11 Compatibility Layer - Phoronix

Announced just once month ago was Wayback as an X11 compatibility layer build atop Wayland components

systemd 258-rc1 Is A Massive Feature Release With New Tools, More Than 260 Changes Systemd 257 debuted last December and now finally systemd 258 is preparing to roll out... Systemd 258-rc1 was issued today as the first test release toward this next major release. It's a big one with more than 260 changes noted in the announcement, including multiple new tools and other additions...

systemd 258-rc1 Is A Massive Feature Release With New Tools, More Than 260 Changes - Phoronix

Systemd 257 debuted last December and now finally systemd 258 is preparing to roll out..

Zed Editor's Newest Feature: Being Able To Disable All AI Features The Zed open-source code editor that is written in Rust, has begun supporting Linux rather well, and has continued tacking on new features to assist developer workflows has introduced another new feature: the ability to easily disable all AI features...

Zed Editor's Newest Feature: Being Able To Disable All AI Features - Phoronix

The Zed open-source code editor that is written in Rust, has begun supporting Linux rather well, and has continued tacking on new features to assis...

Mesa 25.2-rc2 Released With Intel Wildcat Lake Enablement, Legacy-X11 Option Deprecated Eric Engestrom just released Mesa 25.2-rc2 as the newest, on-time weekly release candidate for this quarter's Mesa 25.2 feature series...

Mesa 25.2-rc2 Released With Intel Wildcat Lake Enablement, Legacy-X11 Option Deprecated - Phoronix

Eric Engestrom just released Mesa 25.2-rc2 as the newest, on-time weekly release candidate for this quarter's Mesa 25.2 feature series.

Pogocache 1.0 Released: Claims Better Performance Than Memcache, Valkey & Redis Pogocache 1.0 was released today as a fast open-source caching software that aims for low latency and great CPU efficiency. Pogocache supports Memcache / Valkey / Redis / HTTP / Postgres wire protocols while claiming to offer much better throughput and lower latency than these caching alternatives...

Pogocache 1.0 Released: Claims Better Performance Than Memcache, Valkey & Redis - Phoronix

Pogocache 1.0 was released today as a fast open-source caching software that aims for low latency and great CPU efficiency