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DXVK 2.7 Released With Many Improvements & Better Support On Newer Intel GPUs

5. Červenec 2025 - 16:45
DXVK 2.7 released today as a major feature update for this translation layer for enabling Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 based games and applications to run atop the Vulkan API. DXVK is a critical piece of Valve's Steam Play (Proton) software stack for enabling Windows games on Linux...

SUSE's Agama Installer Switches From X.Org To Wayland For Installation GUI

5. Červenec 2025 - 14:12
SUSE developers working on their new operating system installer "Agama" have been making steady progress and on Friday debuted Agama 16. With Agama 16 they have moved from X.Org to Wayland for powering their installer UI along with a number of other changes...

Fedora 43 GNU & LLVM 21 Toolchain Updates Planned

5. Červenec 2025 - 14:00
It shouldn't be particularly surprising as Fedora Linux has always been known for shipping with a leading-edge compiler toolchain, but the formalities have now been submitted for Fedora 43 to ship with the latest GNU and LLVM toolchain components...

Intel Wildcat Lake HID Support & Dell + ASUS Additions Ahead Of Linux 6.16-rc5

5. Červenec 2025 - 11:41
Ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc5 kernel expected to be released tomorrow, a round of x86 platform driver updates were merged this week with several fixes as well as some new device additions...

GNOME's Glycin Continues Being Built Out, Papers Ready For Document Viewing

5. Červenec 2025 - 11:27
It was another exciting week in the GNOME space to kick off July...

KDE Working On New Virtual Keyboard, Many Plasma Improvements Kick Off July

5. Červenec 2025 - 11:13
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly summary to highlight all of the interesting Plasma desktop developments for the past week...

Coreboot 25.06 Released With Xeon Emerald Rapids Support, Better Panther Lake

5. Červenec 2025 - 1:18
Building off Coreboot 25.03 is now the availability of Coreboot 25.06 for further enhancing this open-source system firmware project that continues to see new hardware improvements -- predominantly for Google Chromebook devices but also more Intel platforms and other hardware -- as well as new capabilities to further rival proprietary BIOS solutions...

Vulkan 1.4.321 Released With A Handful Of New Extensions

5. Červenec 2025 - 0:15
The Vulkan working group is celebrating the US Independence Day with graphics API independence in today publishing Vulkan 1.4.321 that comes with several new extensions...

Bcachefs Fixes Merged For Linux 6.16-rc5

4. Červenec 2025 - 19:07
A handful of Bcachefs file-system fixes were submitted yesterday to Linus Torvalds for merging ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc5 release due out on Sunday. Today they were merged...

Rust-Written Redox OS Continues Making Progress With Wayland

4. Červenec 2025 - 16:00
The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system project just published their June 2025 status report to outline recent progress on this innovative platform...

Acer Nitro Gaming Controller"NGR200" To Be Supported By Linux 6.16

4. Červenec 2025 - 14:18
Sent in today for the ongoing Linux 6.16 kernel cycle as part of the input subsystem fixes is enabling support for the Acer Nitro Gaming Controller (NGR200)...

Intel Enables Wildcat Lake Display & Experimental Flip Queue For Linux 6.17 Graphics

4. Červenec 2025 - 12:00
Intel today sent out a batch of new kernel graphics/display driver code for queuing ahead of the Linux 6.17 merge window opening in a few weeks. There is now DRM Panic support for the Intel i915 and Xe kernel drivers, Wildcat Lake "WCL" display enablement, and experimental flip queue support for Lunar Lake and Panther Lake hardware, among other changes coming for the Intel drivers in Linux 6.17...

Debian Looks To Attract More Contributors, Eyes Budget For AI/LLM Usage By Debian Developers

4. Červenec 2025 - 11:30
The Debian project is hoping to address challenges of mentoring newcomers to contribute to the Debian Linux distribution as well as making it more known that open-source contributors can do more than just work on Debian packaging but that help is needed for documentation writing, web page creation, sorting out licensing issues, finding project sponsors, and more. Debian is also looking to attain OpenAI sponsorship or open-source funds from other large language model (LLM) / AI providers to help Debian developers for those wanting to use AI to help accelerate their Debian workflows...

Redis 8.2 Preparing More Performance Optimizations, SVS-VAMANA

4. Červenec 2025 - 11:19
The first release candidate of Redis 8.2 is now available for testing of this popular in-memory key-value database. Redis 8.2 is building off the recent Redis 8.0 release that ended up going tri-licensing with the AGPLv3 stemming from developer/community feedback...

Bash 5.3 Released With Many Improvements

4. Červenec 2025 - 11:09
Three years since the Bash 5.2 release and one year since the first alpha release, GNU Bash 5.3 was released overnight as the newest step forward for this popular shell used on Linux and other operating systems...

Perl 5.42 Released With New Operators, Unicode 16 Support, Security Fixes

4. Červenec 2025 - 0:55
Perl 5.42 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular programming language that comes one year after the prior Perl 5.40 release...

Fedora Linux Looks To End Support For UEFI On MBR-Paritioned Disks

3. Červenec 2025 - 21:06
A proposal raised for Fedora 43 would end support for allowing UEFI installations on MBR-partitioned disks for x86_64 systems in the Anaconda installer. This would enforce a requirement on using GPT partition tables for all UEFI-based Fedora installations in the x86 world...

Intel Lunar Lake Showing Some Performance Improvements With Linux 6.16

3. Červenec 2025 - 15:50
For those on an Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" system, the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel is looking to be in better shape for those newest Intel SoCs. In testing carried out using a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura edition laptop, there are performance gains in some areas with the Linux 6.16 development kernel.

X.Org Server Lands Big Improvement For Using Zink With GLAMOR

3. Červenec 2025 - 13:39
A nice improvement was merged today to the X.Org Server for benefiting the GLAMOR 2D acceleration code when using the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver...

Linux 6.17 To Finish Clearing Out Old Code For OpenMoko Devices

3. Červenec 2025 - 11:52
Linux 6.17 is expected to clear out some final remnants of the OpenMoko Neo 1973 and Neo FreeRunner smartphone support from that Linux smartphone effort from two decades ago...