Godot 4.5 Beta Released With Better Wayland Support

The first beta release of the Godot 4.5 open-source game engine is now available for testing. Notable for Linux users is the continued quest toward Wayland support at parity to X11...
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Cache-Aware Scheduling For Linux Refined - Better AMD & Intel CPU Performance

Going on for several months now has been an effort to wire up cache-aware scheduling / load balancing for the Linux kernel for helping out task placement for processors with multiple cache domains such as modern AMD Ryzen/EPYC and Intel Xeon platforms. This cache-aware scheduling has shown much potential for Linux with further enhancing performance on today's i…
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Zed Editor Introduces Built-In Debugger

The Zed Editor remains a popular code editor written in the Rust programming language and providing modern features for this project started by former Atom developers. One of the long sought features for Zed has been having built-in debugger capabilities and that work has finally been merged to the project's codebase...
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XWayland 24.1.8 & X.Org Server 21.1.18 Further Address Yesterday's Security Disclosures

Released yesterday were X.Org Server 21.1.17 and XWayland 24.1.7 to address another batch of six security vulnerabilities reported by security researchers. Out today is X.Org Server 21.1.18 and XWayland 24.1.8 in order to further button up one of the security issues reported yesterday...
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Framework Laptop 12: An Upgrade-Friendly, Convertible 2-in-1 Linux Laptop

Back in February the Framework Laptop 12 was announced as the company's first 2-in-1 convertible laptop while still being well-built and upgrade-friendly/modular as we have come to enjoy out of their various Linux-friendly laptops. Today the review embargo lifts on the Framework Laptop 12 and thus can share our initial impressions on this Intel-powered 12-inch laptop.
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Servo Browser Engine Finally Supporting Animated GIFs

The Servo browser engine project born out of Mozilla as an early Rust project and now advanced by open-source developers from various firms continues moving forward. Servo has finally scratched animated GIF support off its TODO list among other features...
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Updated AMD ISP4 Driver For Linux Benefits The HP ZBook Ultra G1a, Future Ryzen Laptops

AMD engineers today posted the second iteration of their AMD ISP4 Linux kernel driver, which is for supporting the web-camera with the high-end Strix Halo powered HP ZBook Ultra G1a laptop and presumably many AMD Ryzen laptops in the future...
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Broadcom BNGE Linux Network Driver Published For BCM5770X

Broadcom has been working on a new Linux Ethernet networking driver dubbed "BNGE" for supporting their new high-end BCM5770X chipset family...
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Arch Linux Moving To WoW64 Wine & Wine-Staging

The Arch Linux project announced this week they are working to transition their Wine and Wine-Staging packages over to pure WoW64 builds. This "Windows on Windows 64-bit" allows for 32-bit Windows applications on 64-bit Linux platforms without needing 32-bit software libraries/prefixes present and overall a big architectural win...
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Alienware "G-Mode" Reverted For Linux: It Actually Hurt Performance

Alienware G-Mode / Game Shift is a feature designed to "enhance gaming performance" on select Dell/Alienware laptops with the press of a key. But at least under Linux with select laptop models it can actually regress performance compared to just running the laptop in the "performance" platform profile...
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Qt Creator 17 Released With New Default Themes

The Qt Creator 17 integrated development environment released today with a variety of improvements for this primarily C++/Qt focused developer IDE...
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Mesa's Rusticl Driver Now Supports sRGB Images

Mesa's Rusticl OpenCL driver has supported various elements of 2D image handling while the latest addition in enhancing this open-source driver's support is for sRGB images...
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Linux 6.16 Adds Support For Intel PMC SSRAM Telemetry For Lunar Lake + Panther Lake

For those interested in Intel's Platform Monitoring Technology (PMT) for power and performance telemetry data among other metrics on Intel hardware, the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel has squeezed in support for existing Lunar Lake and next-gen Panther Lake SoCs into the PMC SSRAM telemetry driver...
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Open 3D Engine 25.05 Brings Vulkan Improvements, Simulation Enhancements

Version 25.05 of the Open 3D Engine "O3DE" was released today for this open-source project born out of Amazon's Lumberyard engine nearly four years ago. With O3DE 25.05, this open-source game/simulation engine continues to be advanced by Amazon/AWS, Meta, Huawei, and other organizations...
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X.Org Server 21.1.17 & XWayland 24.1.7 Fix The Latest Batch Of Security Issues

The X.Org Server 21.1.17 and XWayland 24.1.7 point releases were issued today to fix the latest batch of security issues...
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NVIDIA 575.64 Linux Driver Released With A Few Fixes

NVIDIA today released a new version of their R575 series stable Linux driver to provide a few additional fixes for customers...
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AMD & System76 Teaming Up For ROCm "Radeon Test Drive"

AMD's Advancing AI 2025 event last week was very busy with announcing the Instinct MI350X and MI355X, the ROCm 7.0 preview, and debuting the AMD Developer Cloud. In addition, they held pre-briefs around the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series and buried in as part of that was another new disclosure: Radeon Test Drive. Radeon Test Drive was brought up as something that's coming later this summe…
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AMD Shares More Details On The Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series

Prior to the AMD Advancing AI 2025 event last week, AMD shared additional details on their forthcoming Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series processors.
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Qt 6.10 Beta Released With Native PipeWire Audio Backend For Qt Multimedia

Qt 6.10 Beta 1 released today as the next stepping stone for this open-source, cross-platform toolkit. Qt 6.10 isn't bringing any new modules but is deprecating the Qt Charts and Qt Data Visualization code...
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KDE Plasma 6.4 Desktop Released With Many Fantastic Improvements

KDE Plasma 6.4 is out today with many fantastic improvements for this open-source desktop...
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Intel's Next-Gen QAT Hardware Can Be Optimized For Just Decompression Use

Merged recently for the Linux 6.16 kernel was initial support for Intel QAT Gen6 hardware. A new qat_6xxx driver was added for supporting the next-gen QuickAssist Technology accelerator IP being found with upcoming Intel Xeon processors. Patches being prepared now for the Linux 6.17 kernel are building out a new decompression service for that next-generation hardwar…
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Intel THC Linux Driver Ready To Support Wake-on-Touch "WoT"

Merged for Linux 6.14 at the beginning of the year were the Intel THC drivers for supporting the Touch Host Controller IP found in modern Intel Core Ultra laptops for dealing with the touchpad, touchscreen, and related touch-control functionality. This open-source driver is still being built-out ahead of next-generation Core Ultra laptops hitting the market...
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Dbus-Broker 37 Released For High Performance & Reliable D-Bus

The Dbus-Broker project from the BUS1/systemd developers is out with its first update in more than one year for this D-Bus implementation that aims to be more reliable and higher performing than D-Bus itself...
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