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Arch Linux Based Endeavour OS Updated After ISO Refresh Hiatus

Phoronix | Nov. 29, 2025, 6:52 a.m. | Original

Endeavour OS is one of the popular desktop Linux distributions built around Arch Linux providing a nice out-of-the-box experience. Since their last ISO refresh back in March there hadn't been much news from the project nor any new ISO releases for this rolling-release distro. But thankfully today they are back in the saddle with a new ISO release, Endeavour OS 2025.11.24 "Ganymede".

The Endeavour OS project is "still active and we're not

Framework Computer Now Sponsoring LVFS / Fwupd Development

Phoronix | Nov. 29, 2025, 6:43 a.m. | Original

With the Linux Vendor Firmware Service serving more than 135 million downloads for Linux users updating their system and device firmware, LVFS has been working to get more hardware vendors to contribute either engineering resources or directly contributing annual dues as sponsors. Framework Computer is now the first one to have executed an agreement under these new sponsorship efforts.

Red Hat in employing lead developer Richard Hughes has contributed the most to LVFS/Fwupd's success, the Linux Foundation has also hosted the project since it has shifted into their umbrella,

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Intel Hiring Two More Experienced Linux Kernel Engineers

Phoronix | Nov. 29, 2025, 6:27 a.m. | Original

While there have been a number of Intel Linux engineers laid off over roughly the past year, other Linux kernel engineers opting to pursue employment opportunities elsewhere amid the ongoing challenges and restructuring at the company, and shifts in their open-source strategy , there's some good news as we work toward the 2025 holidays. Intel is currently hiring for two more experienced Linux kernel software engineers.

Kristen Accardi as Intel's Director of Upstream Linux Kernel Engineering at the company recently announced she is hiring for two more

KDE Plasma 6.6's KWin Implements RandR Emulation For Better XWayland Experience

Phoronix | Nov. 29, 2025, 5:52 a.m. | Original

KDE developers have been busy ending out the month of November with a number of new features and fixes queued up for next year's Plasma 6.6 desktop release.

On top of announcing plans to go Wayland-exclusive in Plasma 6.8 , KDE developers spent time during this last week of November to land more features for Plasma 6.6. KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly feature recap with some of the interesting changes for the week including:

- Plasma 6.6 is introducing new global

Niri 25.11 Rust-Written Wayland Compositor Adds Alt-Tab Switcher, New Animations

Phoronix | Nov. 29, 2025, 5:49 a.m. | Original

Niri 25.11 is now available as the latest feature release for this Rust-written, scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor.

One of the most notable changes with Niri 25.11 is introducing its own Alt-Tab window switcher. This Alt-Tab window switcher for Niri has live window previews and various usability enhancements to make for a better Alt-Tab experience under this Wayland compositor.

Wine 10.20 Released With VKD3D 1.18 Upgrade For Direct3D 12

Phoronix | Nov. 28, 2025, 4:22 p.m. | Original

Wine 10.20 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software enabling Windows applications and games to run on Linux. This is also with Wine 11.0 stable quickly approaching.

Wine 10.20 was released a few minutes ago while coming next Friday on 5 December will be Wine 11.0-rc1 to mark the beginning of the code freeze for the annual Wine stable release. Wine 11.0 is planning for a January debut

New Patches Work To Optimize Code Generation For Linux Context Switching

Phoronix | Nov. 28, 2025, 2:17 p.m. | Original

As some additional enticing Linux kernel patches posted this week for review, an updated patch series is working to optimize code generation during context switching.

Xie Yuanbin pposted the set of three patches working to optimize the compiler's code generation during context switching, which given its frequency can be an expensive task especially with the ever-increasing number of CPU security mitigations often making context switching even more costly.

Xie explained on the latest patch series:

"The purpose of this series of patches is to optimize the performance of context switching

Open-Source Nouveau+NVK vs. NVIDIA 580 Linux Gaming/Graphics & Compute Driver Performance

Phoronix | Nov. 28, 2025, 10:44 a.m. | Original

This Black Friday is an in-depth look at the current performance of the open-source NVIDIA Linux driver stack with the Nouveau kernel driver (the Nova driver not yet being ready for end-users) paired with the latest Mesa NVK driver for open-source Vulkan API support. With that NVK Vulkan driver is also looking at the OpenGL performance using the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver used now for OpenGL on modern NVIDIA GPUs rather than maintaining the Nouveau Gallium3D driver. Plus the Rusticl driver for OpenCL

New Linux Patches Enhance Single-Threaded Performance On Many-Core CPUs

Phoronix | Nov. 28, 2025, 10:13 a.m. | Original

In addition to the proposed Hierarchical Queued NUMA-aware spinlocks for better performance , another interesting performance-enhancing patch series posted in the past 24 hours for the Linux kernel is for improving the performance of single-threaded tasks running on high core count CPU desktops / workstations / servers.

Gabriel Krisman Bertazi of SUSE posted the request for comments (RFC) patch series to better the performance of single-threaded tasks with today's many-core CPUs. The optimization is focused around the Linux kernel's "rss

AMD ISP4 Linux Webcam Driver Updated For HP ZBook Ultra G1a & Future Ryzen Laptops

Phoronix | Nov. 28, 2025, 7:03 a.m. | Original

We eagerly await to see if the AMD ISP4 driver will be ready for mainlining in the imminent Linux v6.19 merge window but it's getting down to the wire and thus looking less likely it will make it unless action is taken in the coming days. Today though a sixth version of this AMD ISP4 image signal processor driver was posted for this last piece of the puzzle in enabling the web camera on the HP ZBook Ultra G1a Strix Halo laptop as well as future Ryzen high-

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