GNOME Mutter On Wayland Adds ICC Profile Support, Backlight Improvements There were a lot of interesting changes that landed in GNOME's Mutter compositor codebase to end out the weekend and ahead of next month's big GNOME 49 release...

GNOME Mutter On Wayland Adds ICC Profile Support, Backlight Improvements - Phoronix

There were a lot of interesting changes that landed in GNOME's Mutter compositor codebase to end out the weekend and ahead of next month'...

KDE Plasma 6.5 Continues Seeing More Features Added & Polishing Like clockwork KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly recap of all the interesting Plasma changes for the week. There continues to be a lot of feature work and polishing that is building up for the Plasma 6.5 desktop release...

KDE Plasma 6.5 Continues Seeing More Features Added & Polishing - Phoronix

Like clockwork KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly recap of all the interesting Plasma changes for the week

Additional Intel Linux Drivers Left Orphaned & Maintainers Let Go Well, it's an unpleasant afternoon in Linux land with more signs of the ongoing impact from Intel's corporate-wide restructuring. Just after writing about Intel's CPU temperature monitoring driver now left unmaintained/orphaned, more patches hit the public Linux kernel mailing list to mark additional Intel drivers as orphaned and removing maintainer entries for Linux d…

Additional Intel Linux Drivers Left Orphaned & Maintainers Let Go - Phoronix

Well, it's an unpleasant afternoon in Linux land with more signs of the ongoing impact from Intel's corporate-wide restructuring

Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs There is yet more apparent fallout from Intel's recent layoffs/restructurings as it impacts the Linux kernel... The coretemp driver that provides CPU core temperature monitoring support for all Intel processors going back many years is now set to an orphaned state with the former driver maintainer no longer at Intel and no one immediately available to serve as …

Intel CPU Temperature Monitoring Driver For Linux Now Unmaintained After Layoffs - Phoronix

There is yet more apparent fallout from Intel's recent layoffs/restructurings as it impacts the Linux kernel..

RADV Implements Triangle Pair Compression For AMD RDNA4 GPUs The latest Radeon RADV driver ray-tracing optimization being merged to Mesa 25.3 is support for triangle pair compression with RDNA4 (GFX12) graphics processors...

RADV Implements Triangle Pair Compression For AMD RDNA4 GPUs - Phoronix

The latest Radeon RADV driver ray-tracing optimization being merged to Mesa 25.3 is support for triangle pair compression with RDNA4 (GFX12) graphi...

FFmpeg 8.0 Merges Vulkan AV1 Encoding & VP9 Decoding Ahead of the upcoming FFmpeg 8.0 release for this widely-used, open-source multimedia library some more last minute features continue to land. Hitting FFmpeg Git today are some Vulkan Video additions...

FFmpeg 8.0 Merges Vulkan AV1 Encoding & VP9 Decoding - Phoronix

Ahead of the upcoming FFmpeg 8.0 release for this widely-used, open-source multimedia library some more last minute features continue to land

GCC 15.2 Released With More Than 123 Bugs Fixed Following the release of GCC 15.1 at the end of April as the first stable version of the GCC 15 compiler, GCC 15.2 is now available with a variety of bug fixes back-ported...

GCC 15.2 Released With More Than 123 Bugs Fixed - Phoronix

Following the release of GCC 15.1 at the end of April as the first stable version of the GCC 15 compiler, GCC 15.2 is now available with a variety ...

Mesa 25.2 Released With Many Improvements For RADV, Intel & NVK Drivers Mesa 25.2 is now available as the newest quarterly feature release for this set of open-source Linux graphics drivers predominantly for OpenGL, Vulkan, and video acceleration support on the Linux desktop...

Mesa 25.2 Released With Many Improvements For RADV, Intel & NVK Drivers - Phoronix

Mesa 25.2 is now available as the newest quarterly feature release for this set of open-source Linux graphics drivers predominantly for OpenGL, Vul...

AlmaLinux Introduces Native NVIDIA Support Using Open-Source Kernel Driver The AlmaLinux project announced today that there is now "native" NVIDIA graphics driver support for AlmaLinux 10 and AlmaLinux 9 using NVIDIA's open-source kernel modules that are now conveniently packaged in an AlmaLinux repository for easy usage complete with NVIDIA's closed-source user-space packages like CUDA...

AlmaLinux Introduces Native NVIDIA Support Using Open-Source Kernel Driver - Phoronix

The AlmaLinux project announced today that there is now 'native' NVIDIA graphics driver support for AlmaLinux 10 and AlmaLinux 9 using NV...

Btrfs Sees Urgent Fix Following Recent Reports Of Log Tree Corruption On Linux 6.15.3+ there have been increased reports of log tree corruption being hit by users of the Btrfs file-system. Fortunately, a fix has now been submitted for Linux 6.17 Git and then for back-porting to the recent stable kernel versions...

Btrfs Sees Urgent Fix Following Recent Reports Of Log Tree Corruption - Phoronix

On Linux 6.15.3+ there have been increased reports of log tree corruption being hit by users of the Btrfs file-system