Miriway 24.10 Compositor Adds systemd Integration, DE-Specific Configurations Miriway 24.10 was released on Halloween as the newest version of this Mir-based Wayland compositor. Miriway is developed by Canonical/Ubuntu developers as a compositor for other desktops like Xfce, MATE, LXQt and others as a way to ease their migration path to Wayland... image
AMD Formally Announces Ryzen 7 9800X3D Specs - Should Be Great For Linux Creators AMD has been teasing the Ryzen 9000X3D Zen 5 CPUs with 3D V-Cache and today they formally announced the specs of the Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor that will begin shipping 7 November... image
Linus Torvalds Lands A 2.6% Performance Improvement With Minor Linux Kernel Patch Linus Torvalds merged a patch on Wednesday that he authored that with reworking a few lines of code is able to score a 2.6% improvement within Intel's well-exercise "will it scale" per-thread-ops benchmark test case... image
Fedora 41 Releases Today With Many Shiny New Features Fedora 41 is ready for release today as a wonderful update to this leading edge Linux distribution... image
RADV Vulkan Driver Merges Device Generated Commands Support Thanks to Valve's Linux graphics team, VK_EXT_device_generated_commands is now supported by the Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver with the upcoming Mesa 24.3 release... image
Vulkan 1.3.300 Delivers New Cooperative Matrix Extension From NVIDIA Vulkan 1.3.300 debuted on Friday with a handful of fixes and one new extension... image
KDE Fixing Many Bugs, Prepping New Plasma 6.3 Features KDE developers continue being very busy prepping more bug fixes for the Plasma 6.2.x series while continuing to work on new feature material for Plasma 6.3... image
Linus Torvalds Comments On The Russian Linux Maintainers Being Delisted Following yesterday's news first featured on Phoronix of several Linux driver maintainers being de-listed from their maintainer positions within the mainline Linux kernel over their connections to Russia, Linus Torvalds has today commented on the matter... image
The Free Software Foundation Finally Has AI / Machine Learning Apps On Their Radar The Free Software Foundation announced on Tuesday they have begun work on "freedom in machine learning applications". Or in particular, a to-be-issued "statement" on free machine learning applications for software and the associated scripts and training data... image
AMD Posts Linux Patches For EPYC To Further Enhance Performance-Per-Watt By Default Making for an exciting Monday morning, AMD Linux engineers have kicked off the new week with a patch series introducing an exciting and long-awaited change: using the AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver by default for EPYC server platforms moving forward rather than the ACPI CPUFreq driver... image