Cinnamon Pursuing Visual Improvements, Linux Mint Continues Working On Aptkit The Linux Mint project has published their status update for September 2024 that outlines work on this desktop-focused, Ubuntu-derived Linux distribution as well as its in-house Cinnamon desktop environment...

Cinnamon Pursuing Visual Improvements, Linux Mint Continues Working On Aptkit - Phoronix

The Linux Mint project has published their status update for September 2024 that outlines work on this desktop-focused, Ubuntu-derived Linux distri...

DOOM Ported To Run Atop AMD ROCm + LLVM libc An open-source developer at AMD has carried out a DOOM port that runs almost entirely atop AMD GPUs for rendering and the game logic. This DOOM GPU port relies on the AMD ROCm library with the LLVM libc C library for offloading the classic DOOM to the AMD GPU...

DOOM Ported To Run Atop AMD ROCm + LLVM libc - Phoronix

An open-source developer at AMD has carried out a DOOM port that runs almost entirely atop AMD GPUs for rendering and the game logic

FFmpeg 7.1 Released With VVC Decoder Promoted To Stable, Vulkan H.264/H.265 Encode FFmpeg 7.1 is out today as the newest update to this widely-used open-source multimedia library. With FFmpeg 7.1 the VVC video decoder has been promoted to stable, there are a number of Vulkan Video improvements, and an assortment of other exciting enhancements...

FFmpeg 7.1 Released With VVC Decoder Promoted To Stable, Vulkan H.264/H.265 Encode - Phoronix

FFmpeg 7.1 is out today as the newest update to this widely-used open-source multimedia library

Linux 6.12 Features Are Super Exciting With Real-Time, Sched_ext, Intel Xe2 & Raspberry Pi 5 The Linux 6.12 merge window is wrapping up today with the release of Linux 6.12-rc1 in the coming hours. This is going to be a heck of an exciting kernel. There's real-time PREEMPT_RT finally in mainline, the much anticipated sched_ext code also was merged, QR codes for DRM panic messages, initial out-of-the-box support for Intel Xe2 graphics with Luna…

Linux 6.12 Features Are Super Exciting With Real-Time, Sched_ext, Intel Xe2 & Raspberry Pi 5 - Phoronix

The Linux 6.12 merge window is wrapping up today with the release of Linux 6.12-rc1 in the coming hours.

Systemd Looking At A Future With More Varlink & Less D-Bus For IPC Taking place this week in Berlin was systemd's annual "All Systems Go" developer conference. Among the interesting talks was Lennart Poettering talking about the ongoing challenges of D-Bus for inter-process communication (IPC) with systemd and how they are looking at Varlink for IPC needs moving forward...

Systemd Looking At A Future With More Varlink & Less D-Bus For IPC - Phoronix

Taking place this week in Berlin was systemd's annual 'All Systems Go' developer conference

FreeBSD To See Better Laptop Support With Investment Backed By AMD, Dell & Framework Following AMD and FreeBSD Foundation collaborations and the Sovereign Tech Fund making a big investment into FreeBSD, the FreeBSD Foundation and Quantum Leap Research have announced a $750,000 USD commitment to improve laptop support on this BSD operating system with backing by Dell, AMD, and Framework Computer...

FreeBSD To See Better Laptop Support With Investment Backed By AMD, Dell & Framework - Phoronix

Following AMD and FreeBSD Foundation collaborations and the Sovereign Tech Fund making a big investment into FreeBSD, the FreeBSD Foundation and Qu...

Blumenkrantz Proposes Workflow Improvements For Wayland Protocols It's been a busy week for Valve Linux graphics software engineer Mike Blumenkrantz. Besides hacking on Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation, this week his latest target was working to help accelerate the pace of Wayland protocol development. He's been working through a few proposals like addressing NACK usage for how Wayland protocols can be rejected and i…

Blumenkrantz Proposes Workflow Improvements For Wayland Protocols - Phoronix

It's been a busy week for Valve Linux graphics software engineer Mike Blumenkrantz

Linux 6.12 Adds Driver For PixArt PS/2 Touchpad Found In Some Laptops The input subsystem updates merged this week bring a number of improvements to existing drivers while adding one new input driver...

Linux 6.12 Adds Driver For PixArt PS/2 Touchpad Found In Some Laptops - Phoronix

The input subsystem updates merged this week bring a number of improvements to existing drivers while adding one new input driver.

Unauthenticated RCE Flaw With CVSS 9.9 Rating For Linux Systems Affects CUPS There's been much speculation since this morning over a reported "severe" unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) flaw affecting Linux systems that carries a CVSS 9.9.9 score... The embargo has now lifted with the details on this nasty issue...

Unauthenticated RCE Flaw With CVSS 9.9 Rating For Linux Systems Affects CUPS - Phoronix

There's been much speculation since this morning over a reported 'severe' unauthenticated remote code execution (RCE) flaw affecting...

Vulkan 1.3.296 Released With VK_EXT_device_generated_commands Vulkan 1.3.296 is out as the first spec update in nearly one month. Given the time that has passed there are more bug fixes than usual but there is also a prominent new extension: VK_EXT_device_generated_commands...

Vulkan 1.3.296 Released With VK_EXT_device_generated_commands - Phoronix

Vulkan 1.3.296 is out as the first spec update in nearly one month