For those Linux desktop users in the US needing another reason to be thankful this Thanksgiving, a huge and long-awaited accomplishment is ready for merging to the kernel: the Color Pipeline API that is important for HDR is ready for merging! As of last night the code is queued in DRM-Misc-Next for this years-in-the-making effort…

Just a few days ago I wrote about the Glibc math code seeing a 4x improvement on AMD Zen by changing the used FMA implementation. Merged overnight was a new generic FMA implementation for the GNU C Library and now yielding up to a 12.9x throughput improvement on AMD Zen 3…

Canonical announced today the Ubuntu 26.04 “Resolute Raccoon” Snapshot 1 images as their first monthly ISO snapshots of the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release…

For Thanksgiving’s Distro of the Week, we put openSUSE Tumbleweed Xfce through install, configuration, and multitasking tests to see how its classic tools and newer additions hold up in everyday use.

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Coming more than five months after Rocky Linux 10, Rocky Linux 10.1 has been released as a free alternative to Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 with updated components, bug fixes, and other changes.

The GNOME Project released today GNOME 49.2 as the second point release to the latest GNOME 49 “Brescia” desktop environment series with various bug fixes and improvements.

Learn the essential Docker commands to build, run, monitor, and manage containers effectively with simple examples and clear explanations.

Two years and one week since the prior point release, Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 is now available as the latest iteration of this Unix desktop environment built around the Motif toolkit. CDE has been open-source for more than a decade now but its development not exactly brisk. But for those resisting the likes of Wayland and other modern display tech — especially with KDE announcing today Plasma 6.8 will be Wayland-exclusive — CDE 2.5.3 is now available…

Originally opened in September 2020 by NVIDIA Linux engineer James Jones, tonight the Vulkan VK_EXT_present_timing extension was finally merged! Five years in the making and incorporating contributions from Google, NVIDIA, AMD, Collabora, Samsung, Unity, and Red Hat is this prominent new addition to the Vulkan API…

With the great upstream support for AMD Radeon graphics in the Linux kernel and Mesa, most desktop users / gamers / enthusiasts are best off just using the latest code shipped by their distributions or via the enthusiast-supported third-party archives/repositories. But for those on older enterprise Linux distributions, Radeon Software for Linux 25.20.3 was recently released for shipping that packaged AMD Linux graphics driver stack. This 25.20 series is the big one where they are now officially supporting the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver in place of their own former Vulkan Linux driver…

Following the release of ROCm 7.1 from just under one month ago, ROCm 7.1.1 is now available with expanded Linux operating system support, continued Instinct MI350 series work, more large language models working on RDNA4 GPUs, and other enhancements…

KDE’s Plasma team has announced
that KDE Plasma will drop X11 session support with Plasma 6.8:

The Plasma X11 session will be supported by KDE into early
2027.

We cannot provide a specific date, as we’re exploring the
possibility of shipping some extra bug-fix releases for Plasma
6.7. The exact timing of the last one will only be known when we get
closer to its actual release, which we expect will be sometime in
early 2027.

What if I still really need X11?

This is a perfect use case for long term support (LTS)
distributions shipping older versions of Plasma. For example,
AlmaLinux 9 includes the Plasma X11 session and will be supported
until sometime in 2032.

See the blog post for information on running X11 applications
(still supported), accessibility, gaming, and more.

It’s been just over one year now since the launch of the Core Ultra 9 285K and other Arrow Lake desktop processors. For those that may be considering an Arrow Lake CPU this holiday season for a Linux desktop or just curious how the power and performance has evolved one year later, here are some leading-edge benchmarks of the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K compared to the launch-day performance last October.

KDE developers announced they are going “all-in on a Wayland future” and with the Plasma 6.8 desktop it will become Wayland-exclusive. The Plasma X11 session is going away…

A Fedora special interest group is being proposed to help improve production stability of Fedora Linux and better handling incident management when problems do arise…

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NVIDIA engineers are interested in helping Google bring Vulkan Video accelerated GPU video decoding to the Chrome/Chromium web browser…

Sean Christopherson of Google sent out the pull requests to the KVM tree of the various x86_64-related areas of virtualization he oversees. With these updates ahead of the Linux 6.19 merge window there is a significant overhaul of Intel’s Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) code to address various outstanding problems…

Following the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 earlier this month, Rocky Linux 10.1 is now available for this popular community-driven alternative to RHEL 10.1…

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