Dillo 3.1 Lightweight Web Browser Released After Nine Years
Dillo 3.1 has been released to succeed the Dillo 3.0.5 release all the way back from 2015… Dillo is a lightweight web browser making use of the FLTK toolkit and is cross-platform, maintains few dependencies, and implements its own rendering engine… ⌘ Read more

GIMP 2.10.38 Released As What Might Be The Last Of GIMP 2
GIMP 2.10.38 was released on Sunday as what might be the “possibly last” GIMP 2 stable release ahead of the upcoming GIMP 3.0 release. GIMP 2.10.38 back-ports more features from the GIMP 3.0 / GTK3 codebase plus other improvements and fixes… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.9-rc7 Released: The Kernel Is Looking Good
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.9-rc7 and it’s looking good like the Linux 6.9 stable kernel will hopefully be out next Sunday… ⌘ Read more

New Intel P-State Linux Driver Patches To Better Handle Hybrid Core CPUs
Intel’s power management lead Rafael Wysocki posted a set of patches recently for working out asymmetic CPU capacity on hybrid Core x86 systems… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.10 To Support Sound On ASUS ROG 2024 Laptops, Lenovo ThinkPad 13X
Cirrus engineers have seen a number of patches queued into the Linux sound subsystem’s “for-next” branch for enabling audio support on some new laptops with the upcoming Linux 6.10 kernel cycle… ⌘ Read more

Synaptics Releases DisplayLink 6.0 USB Graphics Driver Package For Linux
Synaptics this week published a big update to their out-of-tree graphics driver package for DisplayLink USB graphics… ⌘ Read more

Synaptics Releases DisplayLink 6.0 USB Graphics Driver Package For Linux
Synaptics this week published a big update to their out-of-tree graphics driver package for DisplayLink USB graphics… ⌘ Read more

Mesa’s Venus Vulkan Driver Updated To Allow QEMU Support
Mesa’s Venus Vulkan driver has made cross-device functionality optional in order to enable QEMU support for this open-source driver for virtualized environments… ⌘ Read more

ASUS ROG RAIKIRI & Lunar Lake Point M Device IDs Sent In For Linux 6.9-rc7
Ahead of the Linux 6.9-rc7 kernel being released later today, some last minute pull requests for the week have enabled some new bits of hardware support where only new device IDs are necessary and thus safe to add at this late stage of Linux 6.9 development… ⌘ Read more

NetBSD On The State & Future Of X.Org/X11
While on Linux the desktop environments, graphics stack, and other application software is steadily adopting Wayland support and focusing less on X11/X.Org support, the state of Wayland support and the open-source graphics driver stack in general is less robust among the BSDs. The NetBSD project published a status report around their ongoing dependence and modifications to their X.Org stack… ⌘ Read more

GNOME Shell’s Layout Being Improved For Smaller Displays
There’s been a lot of improvements coming about in the GNOME desktop space thanks to the ongoing Sovereign Tech Fund and other initiatives toward GNOME 47… ⌘ Read more

Valve Working On Explicit Sync Support For “NVK” NVIDIA Vulkan Driver
In addition to all of the contributions Valve graphics engineers have been making to the open-source Radeon “RADV” Vulkan driver, they have also begun investing in improvements to the open-source Mesa NVIDIA “NVK” Vulkan driver too. With pending patches there is now explicit GPU synchronization support working for the NVK driver in conjunction with their Gamescope compositor… ⌘ Read more

Wine-Staging 9.8 Comes In At 430 Patches, Fixes A 16 Year Old Game
Following yesterday’s Wine 9.8 release that fixes a nearly 20 year old bug for installing Microsoft Office 97, Wine-Staging 9.8 is out today as the even more experimental blend of Wine that carries hundreds of extra patches that are going through a testing period toward upstreaming into the main codebase… ⌘ Read more

Valve Working On Explicit Sync Support For “NVK” NVIDIA Vulkan Driver
In addition to all of the contributions Valve graphics engineers have been making to the open-source Radeon “RADV” Vulkan driver, they have also begun investing in improvements to the open-source Mesa NVIDIA “NVK” Vulkan driver too. With pending patches there is now explicit GPU synchronization support working for the NVK driver in conjunction with their Gamescope compositor… ⌘ Read more

KDE Readies More Changes For Next Month’s Plasma 6.1
KDE developers have been busy the first few days of May with all eyes shifting to the upcoming Plasma 6.1 desktop… ⌘ Read more

Wine 9.8 Fixes Nearly 20 Year Old Bug For Installing Microsoft Office 97
Wine 9.8 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games/applications on Linux / Chrome OS, macOS, and other platforms… ⌘ Read more

GCC’s Rust Compiler To See Improvements With GSoC 2024
Google Summer of Code 2024 (GSoC ‘24) accepted projects have been announced with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) seeing seven student developers engaging this summer with several of them focused on enhancing GCC’s Rust front-end… ⌘ Read more

FreeBSD Working On Improving Its Audio Stack & Creating Graphical OS Installer
The FreeBSD project has published its Q1’2024 status report to outline various advancements over the past few months… ⌘ Read more

FEX 2405 Gets Close To Running Far Cry On ARM Linux Systems
FEX as the open-source project to run x86/x86_64 binaries on AArch64 Linux systems is out with its newest monthly release. With FEX 2405, they are close to having the game Far Cry (2004) running on ARM Linux devices… ⌘ Read more

Mold 2.31 Now ~10% Faster When Linking Very Large, Debug Info Enabled Binaries
Rui Ueyama announced the release of Mold 2.31 today as the newest version of this high speed linker alternative to LLVM LLD and GNU Gold… ⌘ Read more

Fwupd 1.9.19 Supports New Docks, Incorporates More Fixes
LVFS/Fwupd lead developer Richard Hughes has released Fwupd 1.9.19 as the newest update to this open-source firmware updating solution for Linux systems… ⌘ Read more

Intel Talks Up Their Latest Compiler Toolchain Enhancements For AVX10.1, AMX & More
Intel software engineer Victor Rodriguez presented at the Open-Source Summit North America last month on their open-source compiler toolchain work for enabling ISA capabilities of upcoming Intel CPUs as well as using simulation tools for helping to test compiler enhancements/optimizations moving forward… ⌘ Read more

OpenZFS 2.2.4 Released With Linux 6.8 Support
OpenZFS 2.2.4 was released on Thursday evening to provide the latest ZFS file-system support on Linux and FreeBSD platforms… ⌘ Read more

Dell Laptop Platform Profile Patches Being Worked On For Linux
A patch recently posted to the Linux kernel mailing list is working on implementing ACPI Platform Profile support for modern Dell laptops to allow users to have more control over their balanced / cool / quiet / performance behavior of the laptop and its resulting impact on the fan noise / cooling performance… ⌘ Read more

Proton 9.0-1 Released With Many Improvements For Steam Play Linux Gaming
Valve and CodeWeavers have announced the availability of Proton 9.0-1 as their Wine downstream that pulls in DXVK and VKD3D-Proton along with other changes and powers Steam Play for Linux desktop gaming and on the Steam Deck… ⌘ Read more

XWayland 24.1 RC2 Brings Fixes For Explicit Sync & DRM Leasing
Red Hat’s Olivier Fourdan announced today the second release candidate of the upcoming XWayland 24.1… ⌘ Read more

Pop!_OS With Linux 6.8 Is Benefiting Older System76 Threadripper Systems Too
As noted at the end of March, System76’s Pop!_OS Linux distribution has upgraded to the Linux 6.8 kernel as a stable release update for this Ubuntu-derived distribution. That Linux 6.6 to 6.8 leap on Pop!_OS yielded some nice kernel performance improvements for the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X available with their newest System76 Thelio Major workstations. But tests I’ve carried out of the Pop!_OS upgrade on a years older Syste … ⌘ Read more

AlmaLinux Forms An HPC & AI SIG
The AlmaLinux OS Foundation today is announcing they are establishing a special interest group (SIG) to advance interests around high performance computing (HPC) and artificial intelligence (AI) for this RHEL-derived operating system… ⌘ Read more

Mesa 24.1-rc2 Released With More Graphics Driver Fixes
Eric Engestrom has published Mesa 24.1-rc2 as the latest weekly release candidate of Mesa 24.1 as we work toward the stable release likely in the next week or two… ⌘ Read more

AMD 3rd Gen EPYC “Milan” Sees Some Performance Benefits To Ubuntu 24.04 LTS
With the recently released Ubuntu 24.04 LTS I’ve shown various benchmarks how it can deliver nice performance gains over both Ubuntu 23.10 and the existing Ubuntu 22.04 LTS on different platforms. Those benchmarks have tended to focus on the latest-generation processors/platforms given that’s where the excitement is these days. But for those on older platforms like AMD 3rd Gen EPYC “Milan” servers, here are some benchmarks looking at t … ⌘ Read more

NZXT Kraken 2023 AIO CPU Cooler Monitoring With Linux 6.10
Merged back in 2021 with Linux 5.13 was an NZXT Kraken hardware monitoring “HWMON” driver to support sensor monitoring of these all-in-one liquid cooling products from NZXT. Over time more NZXT Kraken AIO coolers have been supported by the Linux kernel and with the upcoming Linux 6.10 kernel the latest NZXT Kraken CPU coolers will be supported… ⌘ Read more

FSVERITY/DM-Verity Can Yield Much Better Performance With Multi-Buffer Hashing
In addition to recently working out AES-XTS implementations for AVX2, AVX-512, and other versions for speeding up disk/file encryption, Google’s Eric Biggers has additionally been working on some nice performance improvements for the Linux kernel’s DM-Verity code… ⌘ Read more

Valve Publishes Steam Survey Numbers For April 2024
For those that were hoping Steam on Linux numbers would crack the 2% marketshare for April, unfortunately, that didn’t happen… ⌘ Read more