Wayback: experimental layer to run X desktop environments on Wayland
With X.org being in maintenance mode, with the process of replacing it with Wayland accelerating pretty quickly now, a lot of projects using X.org are looking for ways to prepare for the future. Alpine Linux, a distribution focused on musl, BusyBox, and OpenRC, also wants to reduce its maintenance bur
This week, Orange Pi previewed its upcoming Orange Pi Nova, a single-board computer developed in collaboration with Loongson.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Building off Friday's release of Wine 10.11 for running Windows games and applications on Linux is now Hangover 10.11 for this Wine-based software used for running Windows games/applications cross-architecture such as on AArch64/ARM64 systems.lxer.com
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for June 29th, 2025, brings news about Firefox 140 ESR, KDE Plasma 6.4.1, GIMP 3.2, PipeWire 1.4.6, and more.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
GPD has shared early information about the MicroPC 2 on Indiegogo, describing it as an updated version of its ultra-compact computer for mobile technical tasks and on-site troubleshooting. The device measures about 171 × 110 × 23.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Linux 6.16-rc4 Released With AMD Cleaner Shader For More GPUs, Bcachefs Changes
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.16-rc4 as we prepare to close out the first half of 2025 and hitting roughly one month until the Linux 6.16 stable release...
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Wayback is a new experimental minimal Wayland compositor that supports Xwayland, letting X apps function without a full X server.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Our morning after report on how Google's new open source Gemini CLI started acting as if it were on mind altering drugs.Christine Hall (FOSS Force)
Wine-Based Hangover Project Drops QEMU In Favor Of FEX & Box64 For Emulation
Building off Friday's release of Wine 10.11 for running Windows games and applications on Linux is now Hangover 10.11 for this Wine-based software used for running Windows games/applications cross-architecture such as on AArch64/ARM64 systems...
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AMD Prepares Linux Driver Support For New APUs Still Relying On RDNA1 Graphics
It looks like AMD is preparing to introduce some new APUs/SoCs still relying on RDNA1-based graphics with open-source GPU driver patches posted this week extending the "Cyan Skillfish" support to some new APU devices...
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It looks like AMD is preparing to introduce some new APUs/SoCs still relying on RDNA1-based graphics with open-source GPU driver patches posted this week extending the 'Cyan Skillfish' support to some new APU devices.www.phoronix.com
Wayback Is An Experimental X11 Compatibility Layer For X11 Desktops Using Wayland
Wayback is a new open-source project working on providing an X11 compatibility layer for running full X11 desktop environments using Wayland components with a rootful XWayland server...
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GNOME Shell & Mutter 49 Alpha 1 Released With More Changes
Released earlier this month were various GNOME 49 Alpha 0 packages including for GNOME Shell and the Mutter compositor while out this weekend are the "Alpha 1" releases...
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Released earlier this month were various GNOME 49 Alpha 0 packages including for GNOME Shell and the Mutter compositor while out this weekend are the 'Alpha 1' releases.www.phoronix.com
KDE developers this week have been busy with a mix of polishing the recent Plasma 6.4 release as well as taking on more feature development work for Plasma 6.5 coming later in the year.lxer.com
AMD Strix Halo, Snapdragon X & Linux Graphics Were Most Popular This Quarter
With Q2 quickly drawing to a close, here is a look back at the most popular Linux hardware reviews and other Linux/open-source news for the quarter...
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: Cloud and AI demand propel rapid buildout as on-prem share drops to 22%Dan Robinson (The Register)
The past number of months has seen work by AMD Linux driver engineers in enabling cleaner shader functionality for various generations of GPUs to help ensure user/application isolationlxer.com
OBS Studio 31.0.4 fixes crashes related to media sources with no video size and improves stability for macOS 13 and Linux users.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
While a number of Linux desktop users have expressed disappointment over Intel and AMD not providing any GUI for their GPU driver settings and similar functionality like they do under Windows, there are a number of third-party open-source GUI program…lxer.com
Detailed instructions as of 06.28.25 Installation via Dotfiles Installer (Stephan Raabe) on Fedora 42 Dual DE (Gnome && KDE Plasma) As of ...lxer.com
Disagreements over late-stage fixes and developer conduct led Linus Torvalds to drop Bcachefs from the upcoming Linux kernel 6.17 release.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
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Wine 10.11 brings fixes and early NTSync groundwork, improving Windows app compatibility on Linux with 25 bug fixes and WIDL enhancements.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Libre Computer has released new firmware updates for its low-cost single-board computers, the AML-A311D-CC Alta and the AML-S905D3-CC Solitude.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
One of the interesting projects engaged in by Mozilla that directly wasn't related to their web browser efforts was DeepSpeech, an embedded/offline speech-to-text enginelxer.com
In collaboration with Inria, at look at the progress made over the past year on the CoccinelleForRust project.Collabora | Open Source Consulting
The NOVA-Core driver as the basis for a modern, Rust-written open-source NVIDIA GPU driver for the upstream Linux kernel and eventual successor to the reverse-engineered Nouveau DRM driver has a new co-maintainer.lxer.com
Learn how to install Grafana using Docker to easily monitor system metrics with real-time dashboards and support for multiple data sources.Anees Asghar (Make Tech Easier)
Opinion: True digital sovereignty begins at the desktopSteven J. Vaughan-Nichols (The Register)
Following this week's release of Firefox 140, Firefox 141 was promoted to beta.lxer.com
Linux 6.16 Extends Cleaner Shader Support To More AMD CDNA/GFX9 GPUs
The past number of months has seen work by AMD Linux driver engineers in enabling cleaner shader functionality for various generations of GPUs to help ensure user/application isolation. Being merged overnight as part of the AMDGPU "fixes" for Linux 6.16 is cleaner shader support for more AMD GFX9 / CDNA hardware, notably to benefit various Instinct accelerators with t…
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This guide walks you through tuning PCP’s pmlogger service to better fit your needs—whether you're debugging performance issues or running on constrained hardware.Suraj Rajendra Patil (Fedora Project)
RADV Ray-Tracing Lands Pointer Flags Support For RDNA3 & Newer
The RADV Vulkan driver's ray-tracing performance has improved a lot over time such as shown within yesterday's RADV vs. AMDVLK performance comparison on Strix Point. Coincidentally, merged today is yet another ray-tracing optimization to benefit RDNA3 (GFX11) and newer AMD graphics processors...
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LACT 0.8 GPU Configuration & Monitoring Tool Introduces More Features
While a number of Linux desktop users have expressed disappointment over Intel and AMD not providing any GUI for their GPU driver settings and similar functionality like they do under Windows, there are a number of third-party open-source GUI programs for managing graphics driver settings. One of the most capable solutions is LACT for GPU configuration and monitoring. Out today…
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While a number of Linux desktop users have expressed disappointment over Intel and AMD not providing any GUI for their GPU driver settings and similar functionality like they do under Windows, there are a number of third-party open-source GUI program…www.phoronix.com
In addition to releasing Oracle Linux 10 today, Oracle also released the second beta of the upcoming VirtualBox 7.2 cross-platform virtualization software.lxer.com
KDE Devs Add Wayland Session Management To Qt 6.10, Inertial Scrolling For Qt Quick Apps
KDE developers this week have been busy with a mix of polishing the recent Plasma 6.4 release as well as taking on more feature development work for Plasma 6.5 coming later in the year...
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FriendlyElec has released the NanoPi R3S LTS, an updated version of its compact single-board network platform based on the Rockchip RK3566. This revision introduces key hardware changes, including HDMI 2.0 video output, a repositioned USB 3.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
PipeWire 1.4.6 open-source server for handling audio/video streams and hardware on Linux is now available for download with various fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
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