FreeDesktop.org Adopts The Filesystem Hierarchy Standard Adding to the array of software projects and specifications under the FreeDesktop.org umbrella, the Filesystem Hierarchy Standard "FHS" has been adopted by these desktop-focused open-source developers... image
NVIDIA Preparing For Hopper & Blackwell GPU Support With Open-Source Nova Driver NVIDIA engineers continue working a lot on the open-source and upstream Nova driver for the Linux kernel. This modern, Rust-written open-source NVIDIA driver is still taking shape as an alternative to NVIDIA's official downstream open-source driver and the aging and reverse-engineered Nouveau driver. Out on the horizon for Nova is Hopper and Blackwell GPU su… image
Fwupd 2.0.17 Released With More Hardware Support & Features Days after the Linux Vendor Firmware Service celebrated 135 million firmware downloads, a new version of the Fwupd utility is now available for firmware updating systems and peripherals under Linux... image
GNOME Mutter Now "Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend" The merge to GNOME Mutter has finally happened that "completely drops" the X11 back-end to make GNOME strictly focused on Wayland-based environments... image
LXQt 2.3 Released With Improved Wayland Support LXQt 2.3 is out today as the newest release of this lightwight, Qt-based desktop environment... image
systemd-appd Is A New Component Being Planned By Flatpak Developers Given this week's release of Flatpak 1.17 for app sandboxing, open-source developer Sebastian Wick published a blog post on Tuesday around the latest Flatpak developments and a look ahead at some of the feature development planned. Arguably most significant of that is the plans for systemd-appd... image
Open Container Initiative "OCI" Runtime Spec v1.3 Released With FreeBSD Support The Open Container Initiative unveiled today the OCI Runtime Specification v1.3 update for this standard around operating system process and application containers. This runtime specification continues to evolve for outlining the configuration, execution environment, and lifecycle of a container. Notable with the v1.3 revision is introducing official Free… image
Wild 0.7 Released For This Very Fast Linker Written In Rust Wild 0.7 released on Monday as the newest feature release for this very fast linker for Linux systems competing with Mold on x86_64 / ARM64 / RISC-V devices... image
Flatpak 1.17 Adds Support For Sideloading From OCI Images, flatpak+HTTPS URIs Flatpak 1.17 is out today as the newest feature release for this Linux app sandboxing/distribution tech. Flatpak 1.17 brings a number of exciting new features... image
GCC 16 Lands Improved Memmove Behavior For x86/x86_64 CPUs H.J. Lu, a long-time compiler expert at Intel, merged today improved memmove() behavior for the GNU Compiler Collection ahead of the upcoming GCC 16 release... image