GNOME Shell 48 Alpha Introduces Screen Time / Health Breaks, Mutter 48 Alpha Out Too The "48.alpha" releases of GNOME Shell and Mutter were tagged on Sunday for this week's release of the GNOME 48 Alpha in leading up to the GNOME 48.0 stable release in mid-March... image
DXVK 2.5.3 Brings More Fixes For Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 On Vulkan Philip Rebohle working for Valve has just released DXVK 2.5.3 as the newest update to this Direct3D 9 / 10 / 11 implementation over the Vulkan API that is used for enjoying older Windows games on Linux... image
Hyprland Wayland Compositor Lands HDR / Color Management Support Hyprland is now the latest Wayland compositor supporting the color management protocols and allowing High Dynamic Range (HDR) color support with capable displays... image
NTSYNC Driver Ready For Enhancing Windows Gaming With Linux 6.14 Set to make the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel cycle even more exciting is that it looks like the completed NTSYNC driver will be ready for merging. The NTSYNC driver enhances Wine / Proton (Steam Play) gaming by better matching the Windows NT synchronization primitives to allow for better gaming performance. The NTSYNC code has long been a work-in-progress but this week th… image
Niri 25.01 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Brings More Features Niri 25.01 was released on Saturday as the newest version of this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor that has developed a nice following among enthusiasts... image
Debian 12.9 Released With Various Security & Bug Fixes Debian 12.9 was just released as the latest install media refresh for those wishing to run the latest Debian 12 packages... image
GNOME Image Viewer Now Editing JPEGs, Other GNOME 48 Progress GNOME 48 is moving along with the GNOME 48 Alpha packages due this weekend followed by the beta in early February. GNOME 48 is still making good progress in its goal to release on 19 March... image
KDE Plasma 6.3 Bringing A More Consistent Close Button, Other Last Minute Changes This week brought the KDE Plasma 6.3 beta as well as a number of last minute feature changes for this desktop update due for release in February... image
Blumenkrantz Boosts Zink Performance By 150% For Everspace, Possibly Helping Other Games Mike Blumenkrantz of Valve's Linux graphics driver team who is known for his work on the Zink generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver implementation has made another mighty round of improvements for helping the gaming performance... image
KDE Plasma 6.3 Beta Released With A Ton Of Improvements Ahead of the planned stable release next month, the beta version of Plasma 6.3 is out today for testing this next iteration of the KDE desktop... image