The Linux Kernel Looks To "Bite The Bullet" In Enabling Microsoft C Extensions Two patches queued into the Linux kernel's build system development tree, kbuild-next, would enable the

The Linux Kernel Looks To "Bite The Bullet" In Enabling Microsoft C Extensions - Phoronix

Two patches queued into the Linux kernel's build system development tree, kbuild-next, would enable the -fms-extensions compiler argument ever...

AMD Preps More Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.19 AMD continues preparing more kernel driver code for Linux 6.19. This week another round of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver updates were submitted to DRM-Next ahead of the early December merge window...

AMD Preps More Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.19 - Phoronix

AMD continues preparing more kernel driver code for Linux 6.19

SquashFS Tools 4.7.3 Brings Optimizations For As Much As "1500 Times" Speed Improvement For those dealing with SquashFS compressed, read-only file-systems, a new version of the user-space tools were released this week...

SquashFS Tools 4.7.3 Brings Optimizations For As Much As "1500 Times" Speed Improvement - Phoronix

For those dealing with SquashFS compressed, read-only file-systems, a new version of the user-space tools were released this week.

Qt Merges Wayland Color Management "color-management-v1" The Qt toolkit has merged support for Wayland's color-management-v1 protocol to replace the former xx-color-management-v4 protocol shipped by this open-source toolkit. The change was merged for Qt 6.11 development but also back-ported for the Qt 6.10 series...

Qt Merges Wayland Color Management "color-management-v1" - Phoronix

The Qt toolkit has merged support for Wayland's color-management-v1 protocol to replace the former xx-color-management-v4 protocol shipped by ...

GTK Adds "Reduced Motion" Accessibility Option To Follow macOS, Windows & Others In addition to GNOME's Mutter compositor removing its X11 back-end support to focus exclusively on Wayland while keeping around XWayland client support, another notable GNOME change this week was the GTK toolkit adding a "reduced motion" accessibility option...

GTK Adds "Reduced Motion" Accessibility Option To Follow macOS, Windows & Others - Phoronix

In addition to GNOME's Mutter compositor removing its X11 back-end support to focus exclusively on Wayland while keeping around XWayland clien...

Mesa 25.3-rc4 Brings Fix For Many Steam Play Games To Properly Run On Intel Linux Driver Mesa 25.3-rc4 is available for testing as the latest weekly candidate as we work toward the Mesa 25.3 stable release this month...

Mesa 25.3-rc4 Brings Fix For Many Steam Play Games To Properly Run On Intel Linux Driver - Phoronix

Mesa 25.3-rc4 is available for testing as the latest weekly candidate as we work toward the Mesa 25.3 stable release this month.

Hyprland 0.52 Released With New Features For This Wayland Compositor Hyprland 0.52 is available today as the latest feature update for this alternative Wayland compositor...

Hyprland 0.52 Released With New Features For This Wayland Compositor - Phoronix

Vulkan 1.4.332 Brings A New Qualcomm Extension For AI / ML Vulkan 1.4.332 is out today as the latest weekly update to this high performance graphics and compute API specification. Besides a number of documentation clarifications/corrections, there is one new extension this week in the name of AI / machine learning...

Vulkan 1.4.332 Brings A New Qualcomm Extension For AI / ML - Phoronix

Vulkan 1.4.332 is out today as the latest weekly update to this high performance graphics and compute API specification

Mesa Lands Fixes For HDR With Vulkan Drivers Merged overnight to Mesa 26.0-devel and likely to be back-ported for the upcoming Mesa 23.3 release are a few fixes around high dynamic range (HDR) support within the common Vulkan windowing system integration (WSI) / display code...

Mesa Lands Fixes For HDR With Vulkan Drivers - Phoronix

Merged overnight to Mesa 26.0-devel and likely to be back-ported for the upcoming Mesa 25.3 release are a few fixes around high dynamic range (HDR)...

Archinstall 3.0.13 Adds WiFi Connection Menu To Arch Linux Installer Just days after the Archinstall 3.0.12 release for this text-based Arch Linux installer, Archinstall 3.0.13 is now available to deliver a new feature. That new feature is a text-based interface for being able to connect to a WiFi network within Archinstall...

Archinstall 3.0.13 Adds WiFi Connection Menu To Arch Linux Installer - Phoronix

Just days after the Archinstall 3.0.12 release for this text-based Arch Linux installer, Archinstall 3.0.13 is now available to deliver a new feature