While more applications continue enabling Wayland support and getting into a shape by default, the PCSX2 open-source PlayStation 2 emulator recently moved in the opposite direction: disabling Wayland support for their distributed builds…

Source: Phoronix – PCSX2 Emulator Disables Wayland Support By Default

Intel Linux kernel graphics driver developers this week sent out their first batch of drm-intel-next i915 DRM driver changes to DRM-Next of new material to be introduced in the upcoming Linux 6.8 cycle…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Begins Readying Kernel Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.8

A Linux kernel mailing list discussion this holiday weekend that is seeing polarized views on the matter is around a new patch series proposed priority-based shutdown support for drivers/hardware…

Source: Phoronix – Linux Kernel Developers Debate Priority-Based Shutdown Support

While much of the modern graphics world these days is focused on the Vulkan API, there’s no signs of Intel’s open-source graphics driver engineers losing optimization focus with their OpenGL Linux driver by way of the Iris Gallium3D code. Merged this holiday week was a rather significant rework to its buffer object allocation system…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Iris Gallium3D Driver Overhauls Its Buffer Allocation System

It has finally happened: PipeWire 1.0 has been released as this now very common software to the Linux desktop for managing audio and video streams. With time it’s proven to be a suitable replacement to the likes of PulseAudio and JACK while pushing forward the Linux desktop with its modern design and feature set…

Source: Phoronix – PipeWire 1.0 Released For Managing Audio/Video Steams On The Linux Desktop

Intel compiler engineers remain quite busy working not only on AVX10 family support but also plumbing in the Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) to be found with future Intel processors…

Source: Phoronix – LLVM Lands APX JMPABS Support, More Advanced Performance Extensions Work Landing

Over four years after the debut of OpenMandriva Lx 4.0 and in the interim since also working on the ROME rolling-release platform, OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 finally debuted today…

Source: Phoronix – OpenMandriva Lx 5.0 Released: Powered By Linux 6.6 LTS, Their Last Release On Plasma 5

Firefox 121 is aiming to ship with Wayland support enabled by default rather than falling back to XWayland on modern Linux desktops. So far things are looking up for this indeed remaining the case for next month’s Firefox 121 stable release…

Source: Phoronix – Firefox 121 Is Looking Good For Having Wayland Enabled By Default

Debian’s MIPS64EL that is a 64-bit little endian port using the N64 ABI is at risk due to declining access for building the Debian 64-bit MIPS packages. MIPS64EL is now being treated as an “out of sync” architecture due to lacking sufficient build daemon resources for timely building new packages and if the situation doesn’t improve, it may not be suitable as a release architecture for Debian 13 “Trixie”…

Source: Phoronix – Debian’s MIPS64EL CPU Port Is At Risk Due To Declining Hardware Access

Bavarian Linux PC vendor TUXEDO Computers announced this morning the launch of the TUXEDO Sirius 16 Gen1, their first all-AMD powered Linux gaming laptop…

Source: Phoronix – TUXEDO Computers Launches First All-AMD Linux Gaming Laptop

The KDE Plasma 6.0 feature freeze is quickly approaching and the Plasma Wayland showstopper bug list is nearly cleared out for being able to endorse the Plasma Wayland session over X11…

Source: Phoronix – KDE Is Down To Just One Wayland Showstopper Bug Remaining

Eric Engestrom on Friday released the fifth weekly release candidate of Mesa 23.3 with this quarterly stable release hopefully debuting in the next week…

Source: Phoronix – Mesa 23.3-rc5 Released With The Latest Open-Source GPU Driver Fixes

While the winter holidays are approaching so far it hasn’t led to any reduced effort in the GNOME camp. In fact, fresh off the €1M in funding from the Sovereign Tech Fund, there are several new exciting initiatives moving forward along with other ongoing enhancements driven by GNOME developers…

Source: Phoronix – GNOME’s €1M Funding Is Help Advance Work On systemd-homed Home Encryption

Wine 8.21 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of Wine and the final one prior to the feature freeze coming up in two weeks…

Source: Phoronix – Wine 8.21 Released With HiDPI Scaling & Initial Vulkan Code For The Wayland Driver

For those wondering about the air cooling prospects for DIY builds with the new 350 Watt AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series processors, here’s a brief look at the new Noctua heatsink options for the Socket sTR5 processors and the results in use with a Threadripper 7980X 64-core / 128-thread workstation.

Source: Phoronix – Noctua NH-U14S & NH-D9 Air Cooling For The AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7980X

Intel on Thursday committed Arrow Lake “ARL” support to their open-source Intel Graphics Compiler (IGC) that is used by their Compute Runtime stack for OpenCL and Level Zero while on Windows IGC is additionally used as their graphics shader compiler as well…

Source: Phoronix – Arrow Lake Support Added To The Intel Graphics Compiler

In time for any holiday gaming, Valve has just released VKD3D-Proton 2.11 as its Direct3D 12 on Vulkan implementation that is used by Valve’s Steam Play (Proton) for enjoying the latest Windows games on Linux…

Source: Phoronix – VKD3D-Proton 2.11 Released With DXR Now Enabled By Default & DirectX Ultimate

While the open-source AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver is well received by the community, one of the longest sought features has been an official GUI control panel for managing the driver settings and the like under Linux with ease. AMD for their part exposes much of the same tunables available under Windows but is left to just command-line controls or software to poke different ioctls directly. LACT is now the newest open-source option for those wanting an AMD graphics driver control panel for Linux…

Source: Phoronix – LACT Is The Newest AMD Radeon GUI Control Panel For Linux

Following yesterday’s week drm-misc-next pull that added the new Imagination PowerVRM DRM driver, the three patches for atomic DRM_MODE_PAGE_FLIP_ASYNC were queued into drm-misc-next. Now that this atomic async page flip support is in drm-misc-next, next week it should appear in DRM-Next and in turn make it for the Linux 6.8 kernel in the new year…

Source: Phoronix – Atomic Async Page Flips Expected To Land For Linux 6.8

GIMP 3.0 could be finally released in a few months if all goes very well…

Source: Phoronix – GIMP 3.0 Is Hoping To Release In May