Arch-Based Manjaro 19.0 Released With Flagship Edition Using Xfce 4.14
Manjaro 19.0 is out today as this popular desktop-focused Arch Linux based distribution that is focused on its Xfce desktop spin but also offers other desktop options...
Running The Linux 5.6 Kernel With AMD Radeon Graphics
Now hitting about mid-way through the Linux 5.6 kernel with early fallout having been addressed, we've been ramping up our testing/benchmarking of this next major kernel release. Here is our initial experience with the AMDGPU driver on Linux 5.6...
OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 Begins Seeing Beta Builds, Official Release Due In May
OpenSUSE Leap 15.2 has rolled past its alpha phase and is now producing rolling-release beta builds for this version of openSUSE built off the SUSE Linux Enterprise 15 sources...
Linux Mint Debian Edition 4 Reaches Beta - Debian 10 Paired With Cinnamon
The Linux Mint crew continues maintaining Linux Mint Debian Edition (LMDE) as a fall-back should anything ever happen to Ubuntu or their ability to deliver an Ubuntu-based Linux distribution. Available now in beta is Linux Mint Debian Edition 4...
Intel Adds VA-API Acceleration For HEVC REXT To FFmpeg
Intel open-source developers have contributed support for VA-API acceleration of HEVC REXT "Range Extensions" content with the widely-used FFmpeg library...
Mir 1.7.1 Released With X11 Support Promoted Out Of "Experimental" Phase
Mir 1.7.1 was released on Monday and while a point release it's quite a big one...
Intel KVM Virtualization Hit By Vulnerability Over Unfinished Code
At least not another hardware vulnerability, but CVE-2020-2732 appears to stem from unfinished code within the Intel VMX code for the Linux kernel's Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) support...
GNOME On Wayland Screencasting Is About To Be A Heck Of A Lot More Efficient
Pending GNOME Mutter changes in conjunction with the new PipeWire 0.3 will offer a big improvement in making use of GNOME's screencasting support from Wayland sessions...
GIMP 2.10.18 Released With Many Improvements Before GIMP 3.0
While GIMP 3.0 remains elusive as the long overdue GTK3 port of this leading open-source image manipulation program, the GIMP 2.10 stable series continues seeing a lot of decent improvements in their subsequent point releases. GIMP 2.10.18 is out today following a botched GIMP 2.10.16 release...
The Current RADV+ACO Mesa Driver Performance For February 2020
As it's been a few weeks since last running a Mesa open-source driver comparison on AMD Radeon graphics hardware, here are some fresh Mesa 20.1-devel benchmarks just a few weeks so far after the Mesa 20.0 branching. These latest Mesa 20.1-devel benchmarks were also run a second time when enabling the RADV ACO shader compiler back-end that's been a focus by Valve developers in enhancing the Linux gaming experience. These results are compared to Mesa 1