It’s been two years since the release of Enlightenment 0.25 and now just ahead of Christmas there is Enlightenment 0.26 released by Carsten Haitzler…

Source: Phoronix – Enlightenment 0.26 Released With Various Improvements

Following discussions with upstream developers, LLVM is changing its versioning as part of the branch creation process to better distinguish mainline development builds of LLVM against those from stable (or soon to be stable) release branches…

Source: Phoronix – LLVM Moves To A Versioning Scheme Like GCC – N.1 Version For Stable Branch

With a set of input driver patches set to be merged today for the Linux 6.7-rc6 kernel, the XPad driver is adding support for Razer’s Wolverine V2 Xbox controller…

Source: Phoronix – Razer Wolverine V2 Controller Support Coming With Linux 6.7

This week brought the second beta of KDE Plasma 6.0 along with KDE Gear and KDE Frameworks updates too. The holidays haven’t resulted in KDE development slowing down too much with still a number of bug fixes being merged this week and other minor enhancements…

Source: Phoronix – KDE Developers Prepare For Christmas With More Bug Fixes & Qt 6 Porting

Lab Wayland Compositor (labwc) is out with a new version ahead of Christmas for this wlroots-based window-stacking compositor that is inspired by the Openbox window manager…

Source: Phoronix – Lab Wayland Compositor 0.7 Released – Ported To wlroots 0.17

For those still relying on GNU Autoconf for generating configure scripts for building/installing/packaging software rather than more modern alternatives like CMake and Meson, Autoconf 2.72 is out today as a nice holiday treat…

Source: Phoronix – Autoconf 2.72 Released With C23 Support, New Year 2038 Safety Option

The third weekly release candidate of Wine 9.0 is now available for this open-source software that allows running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms…

Source: Phoronix – Wine 9.0-rc3 Released With 35 Fixes In Total, Some Wayland Driver Fixes

In helping to guide Intel’s open-source interests in 2024, the company is hosting an Open-Source Community Survey. Intel is looking for feedback from open-source developers and other community stakeholders about your principal interests and concerns…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Is Hosting An Open-Source Community Survey For Developers

With this week’s release of Firefox 121, Wayland is being used by default when encountering a native Wayland desktop. Shipping as part of Firefox 121 is wayland-proxy as a C++ module to serve as a Wayland proxy load balancer…

Source: Phoronix – Wayland-Proxy Load Balancer Helping Firefox Cope With Wayland Issues

One of the new features to look forward to with the upcoming Linux 6.8 kernel cycle is the merging of the experimental “Xe” Intel kernel graphics driver. This driver has been in development for quite a while but has reached the state now at which Intel is comfortable with developing it further while in the mainline kernel tree.

Source: Phoronix – Trying Out & Benchmarking The New Experimental Intel Xe Linux Graphics Driver

Here’s a pleasant Christmas present and one I certainly wasn’t expecting… Motherboard manufacturer ASRock has announced software for Linux! Well, not any motherboard management/configuration software for their desktop motherboards or anything like that but rather a Linux port of their AI QuickSet software that is intended to help users “experience AI in one click.”..

Source: Phoronix – ASRock Launches AI QuickSet Software For Linux

Bavarian Linux PC vendor TUXEDO Computers has announced TUXEDO Control Center 2.1 as their newest update to this software for managing your notebook’s vitals from the Linux desktop…

Source: Phoronix – TUXEDO Computers Updates Its Linux Control Center Software

The latest bits of future Intel CPU hardware support being queued for the mainline kernel is adding Intel Idle driver support for the upcoming Sierra Forest and Grand Ridge processors…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.8 To Add Intel Idle Driver Support For Sierra Forest & Grand Ridge

One of the often overlooked pieces of the Linux desktop software stack is Plymouth that for the past 15 years or so has been providing a graphical boot splash screen that succeeded Red Hat’s former RHGB software or having no graphical boot splash screen at all on some Linux distributions. This week marked the first new release of Plymouth in nearly two years…

Source: Phoronix – Plymouth Boot Splash Screen Sees First Update In Nearly Two Years

For those with Intel Arc Graphics on Linux and wanting to enjoy the game Baldur’s Gate 3 thanks to the power of Valve’s Steam Play software, an important fix has been merged to Mesa 24.0-devel and set for back-porting to Mesa 23.3. This should take care of rendering issues being reported for Baldur’s Gate 3 with Intel graphics on Linux when using the Vulkan renderer…

Source: Phoronix – Intel Fixes Up Baldur’s Gate 3 On Linux With Arc Graphics

Following my Linux benchmarks of the Intel Core Ultra 7 155H processor performance where it ended up being rather disappointing but then with finding great success with the integrated Arc Graphics on Meteor Lake, like I you may be left wondering how much of a role Linux is playing with these results compared to Windows… Well, this article will shed some light on that aspect with looking at the Microsoft Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux performance on the Acer Swift Go 14 Meteor Lake laptop.

Source: Phoronix – Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance On The Intel Core Ultra 7 Meteor Lake

If you were hoping to spend your New Year’s Eve compiling a freshly-minted Linux 6.7 stable kernel, you’ll need to draft new plans as Linux 6.7 stable won’t be released until the following week…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.7 Won’t Be Out For New Year’s Eve

The upcoming Linux 6.8 kernel cycle will be adding mainline support for several low-cost ARM Linux handheld gaming consoles that are suitable for running retro games, older game emulators, and other lightweight software…

Source: Phoronix – Linux 6.8 To Add Support For Several Cheap ARM-Powered Handheld Game Consoles

Merged yesterday to the Git code for the PostgreSQL database server is support for facilitating incremental backups…

Source: Phoronix – PostgreSQL Lands Support For Incremental Backups

Ahead of the holidays the open-source developers working on the Godot game engine have released Godot 4.3 Dev 1 as their first test release to this next feature release…

Source: Phoronix – Godot 4.3 Dev 1 Released With Rendering System Refactor, D3D12