Linux Mint 22.3 Planned To Bring More Wayland Improvements While Linux Mint 22.2 was just released one week ago, Linux Mint developers are planning for a Linux Mint 22.3 update before year's end...
Fedora 43 Beta Being Released Next Week Fedora 43 Beta is declared a "GO" and ready for release next Tuesday... image
Apache Software Foundation Unveils Its Branding Overhaul With New Logo & "The ASF" Name The Apache Software Foundation announced last year that they would be changing its corporate logo and overhaul its branding after being criticized by American Indian activists. Today they announced the brand new Apache Software Foundation branding...
GCC Rust Compiler Continues Quest To Compile The Linux Kernel Crate The GCC Rust compiler "gccrs" compiler developers have been keeping at it toward their goal of being able to compile the Linux kernel's Rust kernel crate and as part of that the Rust core library... image
Firefox Finally Introducing Matroska / MKV Playback Support Within the nightly builds of the Firefox web browser is finally the ability to support playback of Matroska "MKV" content... image
Linux 6.18 To Introduce Pixpaper DRM Driver, boot_display DRM Attribute Thomas Zimmermann of SUSE sent out today what is anticipated to be the last drm-misc-next feature pull request for DRM-Next that is targeting the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel cycle... image
Mesa Drops VDPAU Video Acceleration In Favor Of VA-API Mesa's Gallium3D video acceleration code has long supported both the VA-API and VDPAU interfaces for video acceleration. VA-API has enjoyed more widespread support among Linux applications and typically more robust while the Video Decode and Presentation API for Unix (VDPAU) was the interface originally started by NVIDIA for their official Linux driver. As of today, Mesa has now removed suppor… image
Fwupd 2.0.15 Released With Support For Newer NVIDIA ConnectX NICs Richard Hughes of Red Hat announced the availability today of Fwupd 2.0.15 as the latest increment to this open-source firmware updating solution built around the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS)... image
Hyprland 0.51 Compositor Released With Reworked Gesture System, New Animations Hyprland 0.51 is now available as the latest feature release for this unique Wayland compositor... image
Zink Begins Optimizing For Workstation Graphics With SPECViewPerf: Doubles The Perf The Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver is well optimized for Linux gaming and desktop use thanks to the work by Mike Blumenkrantz being funded by Valve. Zink has even worked with OpenCL thanks to Rusticl and now another frontier is being conquered for this generic OpenGL on Vulkan driver: workstation graphics with optimizing around the SPECViewPerf test cases... image