Linux 6.13 Bringing DRM Panic Support To NVIDIA GPUs Friday saw a final round of "drm-misc-next" feature updates ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel merge window. The DRM Panic code continues to be enhanced for improving this "Blue Screen of Death" like experience on the Linux desktop... image
Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted To Same Tier As GNOME-Based Fedora Workstation Earlier this year was a Fedora change proposal seeking to make KDE Plasma the default over GNOME for Fedora 42. A compromise of sorts has now been settled on with the Fedora Desktop Spin being promoted to an "Edition" status that will put it on the same level as the GNOME-based Fedora Workstation Edition... image
GIMP 3.2 Will Aim To Be Out Within One Year Of GIMP 3.0 Following the GIMP 3.0-RC1 tagging, the GIMP project has now put out their lengthy write-up outlining many of the new features to enjoy with this first release candidate of the much anticipated GIMP 3.0. Plus there is a few words about future releases when moving past the upcoming GIMP 3.0 stable... image
AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D Linux Performance: Zen 5 With 3D V-Cache Ahead of tomorrow's availability of the AMD Ryzen 7 9800X3D processor as the first Zen 5 CPU released with 3D V-Cache, today the review embargo lifts. Here is a look at how this 8-core / 16-thread Zen 5 CPU with 64MB of 3D V-Cache is performing under Ubuntu Linux compared to a variety of other Intel Core and AMD Ryzen desktop processors. image
cURL 8.11 Released With Official WebSockets Support The cURL 8.11 release is now available for this widely-used open-source software library and CLI utility used for downloads and supporting a variety of network protocols for file transfers. Most notable with cURL 8.11 is sporting official WebSockets support... image
Platform Profile Support Coming For Newer Dell/Alienware Laptops With Linux 6.13 Select newer Dell/Alienware laptops with a "WMAX" thermal interface will see ACPI Platform Profile support now exposed with the upcoming Linux 6.13 cycle... image
Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 Launches For $60 USD, 720 x 1280 7-Inch Display Nine years after the Raspberry Pi Touch Display was announced as a 800 x 480 pixel LCD panel catering to the Raspberry Pi, today the Raspberry Pi Touch Display 2 was announced... image
Linux Mint Working On Night Light For Cinnamon, Collaborating With Framework Computer The Linux Mint crew is out with their newest monthly status update that outlines the activities of this desktop Linux distribution over the course of October... image
FreeBSD 14.2 Beta 1 Released To Work Toward This Next Release FreeBSD 14.2 Beta 1 is out today as the first tagged test snapshot in working toward this newest FreeBSD 14 point release... image
Wine 10.0 Release Plans Aim For Mid-January Release Wine project leader Alexandre Julliard has laid out plans for releasing Wine 10.0 around mid-January as the annual stable release for this open-source software to run Windows applications and games on Linux and other platforms... image