KDE's Konsole Continues Seeing New Features
In recent months KDE's Konsole terminal emulator has been seeing a lot of new features while even more are in the works...
WirePlumber Ready For The Linux Desktop As Replacement To PipeWire's Session Manager
Announced earlier this year was WirePlumber as a new session manager for PipeWire with its role in managing of audio/video streams to/from hardware/software components as well as handling security/permissions, device monitoring, and other session management functionality...
QEMU 5.1 Bringing Many CPU Improvements From Loongson To RISC-V To s390
QEMU 5.1-rc0 is available as the first step towards this next feature release of this important component to the Linux virtualization stack...
Intel Gen12 Graphics Bring EU Fusion - EUs Fused In Pairs
While we remain eager to find out more about (and benchmark) Intel Gen12 graphics in Tiger Lake and Xe discrete graphics with this generation bringing the biggest changes to the ISA since i965, Linux patches and bug reports do continue offering new tid-bits of information on Gen12...
"Navy Flounder" Is The Newest AMD Navi 2 GPU Being Added To The Linux Driver
In addition to the "Sienna Cichlid" support recently published for the open-source AMD Radeon Linux kernel graphics driver, there is another new graphics processor being added to their driver: Navy Flounder...
Early Intel DG1 Graphics Card Enablement Sent In To DRM-Next For Linux 5.9
As we have been anticipating for weeks, initial (but still early) enablement of the Intel DG1 graphics card on their open-source driver stack will indeed be sent in for the upcoming Linux 5.9 cycle and is currently being queued in the DRM-Next repository...
Sway 1.5 Wayland Compositor Released With Adaptive-Sync/VRR, New Protocols
Sway 1.5 is out as a big feature update to this Wayland compositor inspired by the i3 window manager. A big user-facing feature with Sway 1.5 is support for Adaptive Synchronization / Variable Refresh Rate, such as AMD FreeSync...
Approved: Fedora 33 Desktop Variants Defaulting To Btrfs File-System
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee formally signed off today on allowing Fedora 33 desktop variants to default to using the Btrfs file-system rather than the existing EXT4 default or other alternatives...
Valve/CodeWeavers Rolls Out Proton 5.0-10 RC For Death Stranding, One Day After Windows
Valve and CodeWeavers have rolled out a release candidate of Proton 5.0-10 as the newest update to their Wine-based software powering Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux...
FreeBSD Getting Close To Finally Migrating Development From Subversion To Git
The FreeBSD project has published their Q2'2020 status report that outlines their neat-complete work on migrating from Subversion to Git plus many hardware support improvements for this BSD operating system and more...