Miracle-WM 0.6 Brings Many Improvements For This Mir-Based Wayland Compositor
Miracle-WM 0.6 is out today as a mega release for this Mir-based Wayland compositor by Canonical/Ubuntu developer Matthew Kosarek. Miracle-WM provides tiling window manager support inspired by i3 and Sway while being one of the most pronounced users of the Mir code...
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Intel SR-IOV Support Ready For Panther Lake Graphics But Some Current Platforms Left Behind
Intel discontinued Graphics Virtualization Technology (GVT-G) support several generations ago in favor of supporting SR-IOV for graphics virtualization with Iris Xe and newer integrated/discrete graphics hardware. But with the transition as well from the Linux i915 to Xe kernel graphics drivers, the official SR-IOV support state on Intel graphics …
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GNOME 48.3 is now available as the third maintenance update to the GNOME 48.3 desktop environment with various enhancements and bug fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
PowerVR Vulkan Driver Enhancements Merged Ahead Of Mesa 25.2
The Mesa 25.2 code is expected to be branched next week to kick off the release process for this quarter's iteration of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. As such, there's going to be a mad dash over the next week to land lingering features and other improvements for Mesa 25.2. Making it into Mesa Git today was a big set of 42 patches for the Imagination PowerVR Vulkan driver…
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Google Developing Skia "Graphite" For Faster Chrome: Multi-Threaded + Modern Graphics APUs
Google yesterday lifted the lid on their work around Skia "Graphite" as a new rasterization back-end designed for modern graphics APIs like Vulkan and supporting multi-threading by default. Skia Graphite aims to deliver much better performance within the Chrome/Chromium web browser...
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Google yesterday lifted the lid on their work around Skia 'Graphite' as a new rasterization back-end designed for modern graphics APIs like Vulkan and supporting multi-threading by defaultwww.phoronix.com
PHP 8.5 Alpha 1 Released With New Features
The first alpha release of PHP 8.5 was issued last week in kicking off the release cycle in working toward the official PHP 8.5.0 release later in the year...
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Microsoft's Azure Linux 3.0.20250702 Brings Many Security Fixes
Microsoft released Azure Linux 3.0.20250702 on Tuesday as the newest monthly update to this in-house Linux distribution used throughout the company and by external parties...
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KDE Plasma 6.3.6 is now available as the sixth point release to the latest KDE Plasma 6.3 desktop environment series with various changes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Collabora has introduced Tyr, a new Rust-based Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver for CSF-based Arm Mali GPUs. This step strengthens Rust integration within the Linux kernel community.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
KDE's Amarok 3.3 music player lands with a switch to Qt6/KF6, a new GStreamer-based audio engine, and better database and emoji support.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
The ClockworkPi uConsole is designed for Raspberry Pi CM4 or CM5 modules, but a growing group of users has been working to run the Radxa CM5 inside this pocket terminal.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Kdenlive 25.04.3 open-source video editing software wraps up the 25.04 series with bug fixes for volume and transform effects.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
: Move targets European orgs wary of cross-border data exposureRichard Speed (The Register)
Amarok 3.3 Released With The Music Player Ported To Qt6 / KDE Frameworks 6
Just over one year after the Amarok 3.0 release after a six year hiatus that brought it to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5, Amarok 3.3 is out today as the first version taking it to Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6...
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Just over one year after the Amarok 3.0 release after a six year hiatus that brought it to Qt5 and KDE Frameworks 5, Amarok 3.3 is out today as the first version taking it to Qt6 and KDE Frameworks 6.www.phoronix.com
Last month the Framework Laptop 12 began shipping as an upgrade-friendly, convertible 2-in-1 laptop that is friendly with Linux as we've come to expect out of Framework Computer devices.lxer.com
KDE Plasma 6.3.6 enhances tablet and multi-monitor support, updates brightness handling, and fixes notification quirks.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Following all of the Linux and broader open-source software enablement around Power11 the past three or so years, IBM today formally announced their new Power11 hardware.lxer.com
GlobalFoundries Acquiring MIPS
Here's an unexpected company match... GlobalFoundries announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MIPS. Yes, the company formerly part of Wave Computing and before that Imagination and Silicon Graphics during its long history. MIPS in recent years hasn't been focused on its namesake CPU architecture but rather RISC-V core designs...
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Linux Patched For Transient Scheduler Attacks "TSA" Impacting AMD CPUs
Made public minutes ago is Transient Scheduler Attacks (TSA) as a new class of class of speculative side channel attacks affecting AMD processors...
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Framework 12 Platform Tuning For Better Performance Or Power Efficiency
Last month the Framework Laptop 12 began shipping as an upgrade-friendly, convertible 2-in-1 laptop that is friendly with Linux as we've come to expect out of Framework Computer devices. The launch-day Linux testing at Phoronix of the Framework 12 was done out-of-the-box on Ubuntu Linux with the defaults on it and the other comparison laptops tested. But as we've sho…
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IBM Announces Power11 With "99.9999%" Uptime, 55% Better Core Performance Than Power9
Following all of the Linux and broader open-source software enablement around Power11 the past three or so years, IBM today formally announced their new Power11 hardware...
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AMD Hardware Feedback Driver Destined For Linux 6.17 To Benefit Heterogeneous CPUs
The AMD Hardware Feedback Driver has been queued up via a TIP branch for expected merging during the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle. This new open-source AMD driver is designed to help make the kernel's scheduler make better decisions around task placement for heterogeneous processor designs with a mix of the "classic" and "dense" cores...
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openSUSE's new Agama installer v16 now boots with Wayland instead of X11 and offers a new minimal Rescue Mode.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Fan Control Firmware Updated For Intel Battlemage Graphics Cards On Linux
In addition to Intel upstreaming the Xe3 graphics firmware needed for upcoming Panther Lake SoCs to linux-firmware.git so those firmware binaries can get picked up by Linux distributions ahead of Panther Lake laptops shipping, Intel also upstreamed fan control firmware as a first for their graphics card efforts...
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U-Boot 2025.07 is out today as the newest version of this popular open-source boot loader that is widely-used among embedded devices across different CPU architectures.lxer.com
Ardour Digital Audio Workstation Drops GTK+ Option In Favor Of Its "YTK" Fork
The Ardour digital audio workstation (DAW) software has removed its build support for the GTK+ (GTK2) toolkit in favor of now exclusively relying upon "YTK" as its own localized fork of this toolkit...
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The Ardour digital audio workstation (DAW) software has removed its build support for the GTK+ (GTK2) toolkit in favor of now exclusively relying upon 'YTK' as its own localized fork of this toolkit.www.phoronix.com
AMD Merges New RDNA 3.5 iGPU Firmware Files Ahead Of Next Product Launch
Interestingly a batch of new AMD GPU firmware files were upstreamed to linux-firmware.git yesterday in preparing for the next AMD product launch of hardware featuring RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics...
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FEX 2507 Brings New Optimizations & Gets Some Ubisoft Games Running
FEX 2507 is now available for this open-source emulator that allows running x86/x86_64 games and applications atop 64-bit ARM Linux devices whether they be AArch64 servers or ARM64 single board computers and other devices...
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GNOME 49 Alpha desktop environment is now available for public testing with support for the X11 (GNOME on Xorg) session disabled by default.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
The Thunderbird mail client developers today formally announced Thunderbird 140 as the newest Extended Support Release (ESR) for this cross-platform alternative to Microsoft Outlook.lxer.com
OBS Studio 31.1 open-source video recording and live streaming software is now available for download with new features and improvements.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Wayland 1.24 open-source replacement for the X11 window system protocol is now available for download with new features and bug fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Learn how to enable HTTPS on Debian 13 using our latest guide or have our experienced Linux admins do it all for you.Jeff Wilson (RoseHosting)
Parrot OS 6.4 Linux distribution for ethical hacking and penetration testing is now available for download with new and updated tools.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
OBS Studio 31.1 Released With Explicit Sync For PipeWire Screen Capture
OBS Studio 31.1 is now available for those using this cross-platform free software for screencasting and other screen recording purposes. OBS Studio 31.1 is another great step forward for this open-source software that has a devoted following and user-base across Windows, macOS, and Linux...
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Mozilla Thunderbird 140 “Eclipse” open-source email client lands with experimental native Exchange setup, adaptive dark messaging, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
U-Boot 2025.07 Brings New Code For Apple M1/M2 & Raspberry Pi, exFAT Support
U-Boot 2025.07 is out today as the newest version of this popular open-source boot loader that is widely-used among embedded devices across different CPU architectures...
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Sure, Gemini CLI is fun to play with, but don’t forget: it’s Google under the hood. Privacy shields up!Christine Hall (FOSS Force)
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