RPM 6.0 Released With OpenPGP Improvements & Enforces Signature Checking By Default RPM 6.0 is out today as the newest major update to the RPM Package Manager as the package management system most commonly associated with Red Hat / Fedora, openSUSE, Mageia / OpenMandriva, and others... image
Linux 6.18 Adding A New Power Savings Option For The Intel Graphics Driver Queued up into DRM-Next is a last batch of Intel Xe kernel graphics driver improvements ahead of the Linux 6.18 merge window that is expected to begin next week. With this last minute Intel Xe driver activity is also a new power management knob for those wanting to run their Intel graphics slightly more efficient... image
Vulkan 1.4.327 Introduces A New Valve Vendor Extension Version 1.4.327 of the Vulkan API specification was released on Friday and with it comes one new extension, which is a Valve vendor extension... image
Git Developers Debate Making Rust Mandatory Developers behind the Git distributed revision control system are debating whether to make Rust programming language support mandatory... image
Ad-Free Viewing By Showing Your Support During The Phoronix Oktoberfest / Autumn Sale While years ago it was a annual ritual and closest thing to a vacation around here (even though the daily original content persisted), the Phoronix pilgrimage/meet-up at Oktoberfest in Munich sadly remains on hiatus. Web publishing operations remain difficult given the state of the industry and rampant ad-block use make even daily operations tight. Bu… image
KDE Plasma 6.5 Preps Yet More Wayland Fixes & Improvements While KDE Plasma 6.5 beta released this week, KDE developers have been busy landing last-minute minor features and fixes into this next desktop release... image
Mesa Adds Contributor Guidelines - Will Allow AI Generated Code If Author Understands It Merged to Mesa Git are new contributor guidelines added to the documentation. This can help new users in submitting patches to Mesa. It also lays out a policy of allowing AI-generated/assisted code but the author submitting the code must be able to understand the code in question and take responsibility for it... image
Zink OpenGL-On-Vulkan Driver Tackles OpenGL Mesh Shaders In addition to working on optimizing the performance of Zink for workstation graphics, Mike Blumenkrantz has also been tackling support for OpenGL mesh shaders with this generic OpenGL-on-Vulkan open-source driver... image
KDE Plasma 6.5 Beta Released With KNightTime, Rounded Bottom Window Corners The beta release of KDE's Plasma 6.5 desktop took place on Thursday as they work toward the stable release expected on 21 October... image
Rust 1.90 Released With LLD Default On Linux x86_64 While macOS x86_64 Demoted Rust 1.90 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular programming language... image