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Elementary OS 8.1 Switches Over To Wayland Session By Default Thirteen months after the release of Elementary OS 8.0, Elementary OS 8.1 is now available for this Ubuntu 24.04 LTS based Linux distribution that focuses on ease of use and usability. With Elementary OS 8.1 they have transitioned to using the Wayland session by default...

Elementary OS 8.1 Switches Over To Wayland Session By Default - Phoronix

Thirteen months after the release of Elementary OS 8.0, Elementary OS 8.1 is now available for this Ubuntu 24.04 LTS based Linux distribution that ...

Lua 5.5 Released With Declarations For Global Variables, Garbage Collection Improvements Five years after releasing Lua 5.4, Lua 5.5 debuted today as the newest version of this lightweight and embeddable scripting language...

Lua 5.5 Released With Declarations For Global Variables, Garbage Collection Improvements - Phoronix

Five years after releasing Lua 5.4, Lua 5.5 debuted today as the newest version of this lightweight and embeddable scripting language.

Weston 15.0 Alpha Released With New Protocols, Experimental Vulkan Renderer After being delayed by three months to allow additional time for new features to land, Weston 15.0 Alpha 1 is out today as a big feature release for this reference Wayland compositor...

Weston 15.0 Alpha Released With New Protocols, Experimental Vulkan Renderer - Phoronix

After being delayed by three months to allow additional time for new features to land, Weston 15.0 Alpha 1 is out today as a big feature release fo...

MPV 0.41 Released With Wayland Improvements, Vulkan Hardware Decoding Preferred MPV 0.41 is out today as the newest feature release for this MPlayer/mplayer2-derived open-source video player. With MPV 0.41 there is a big focus on improving Wayland support as well as now preferring Vulkan Video acceleration over alternative video decode APIs...

MPV 0.41 Released With Wayland Improvements, Vulkan Hardware Decoding Preferred - Phoronix

MPV 0.41 is out today as the newest feature release for this MPlayer/mplayer2-derived open-source video player

Linux 6.19-rc2 Adding Support For CRKD Guitar Controllers Most notable with the input subsystem updates sent out today ahead of the Linux 6.19-rc2 release is some new hardware support. New this week is adding support for CRKD Guitars for those into musical gaming/apps...

Linux 6.19-rc2 Adding Support For CRKD Guitar Controllers - Phoronix

Most notable with the input subsystem updates sent out today ahead of the Linux 6.19-rc2 release is some new hardware support

Linux 6.19 Lands Fix For Seagate Barracuda HDD Taking Down The SATA Bus It's not often getting to talk about hard drives on Phoronix these days, but there's an important fix merged to the Linux 6.19 kernel today ahead of Linux 6.19-rc2. If you happen to be using a Seagate ST2000DM008 Barracuda 2TB HDD, an important fix was merged to avoid it taking down the systems' SATA bus and/or potentially other issues...

Linux 6.19 Lands Fix For Seagate Barracuda HDD Taking Down The SATA Bus - Phoronix

It's not often getting to talk about hard drives on Phoronix these days, but there's an important fix merged to the Linux 6.19 kernel tod...

Arch Linux's Main NVIDIA Driver Packages Now Using The Open Kernel Modules With the Arch Linux packages for the NVIDIA official graphics driver moving to the now-stable NVIDIA 590 driver series that drops the GeForce GTX 900 and GTX 1000 series GPU support, Arch Linux users with those old Maxwell and Pascal graphics cards will need to transition to using the NVIDIA legacy driver packages from the Arch Linux AUR. Meanwhile for those o…

Arch Linux's Main NVIDIA Driver Packages Now Using The Open Kernel Modules - Phoronix

With the Arch Linux packages for the NVIDIA official graphics driver moving to the now-stable NVIDIA 590 driver series that drops the GeForce GTX 9...

GNU Debugger 17.1 Released With CET Shadow Stack Support, New DAP Features The GNU Debugger "GDB" 17.1 is out today with a number of new features for enhancing the open-source debugging experience...

GNU Debugger 17.1 Released With CET Shadow Stack Support, New DAP Features - Phoronix

The GNU Debugger 'GDB' 17.1 is out today with a number of new features for enhancing the open-source debugging experience.

Mesa 26.0 NVK Driver Lands Improvement For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 "Turing" GPUs In addition to the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver in Mesa merging compression support for big performance wins, another performance optimization was merged earlier in the week that stand to benefit GeForce RTX 20 "Turing" graphics processors...

Mesa 26.0 NVK Driver Lands Improvement For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 "Turing" GPUs - Phoronix

In addition to the open-source NVIDIA 'NVK' Vulkan driver in Mesa merging compression support for big performance wins, another performan...

KDE Plasma 6.6 Finally Supporting Ambient Light Sensors, Fixing Windows Games With HDR There are some nice KDE Plasma 6.6 improvements that were merged ahead of Christmas...

KDE Plasma 6.6 Finally Supporting Ambient Light Sensors, Fixing Windows Games With HDR - Phoronix

There are some nice KDE Plasma 6.6 improvements that were merged ahead of Christmas.