GNU DDD 3.4.1 Released As GUI Front-End To GDB As the first new release in more than one year, GNU DDD 3.4.1 is now available as a GUI front-end to the GNU Debugger (GDB)... https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-GDD-3.4.1-GDB image
KDE Lands Per-Monitor Brightness Controls & Better KWin HDR Tone Mapping Ahead of the KDE Plasma 6.2 soft feature freeze happening next week, KDE developers have been preparing some last minut features for the desktop... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plasma-6.2-Monitor-Brightness image
AMD Prepares Sound Open Firmware Driver For ACP7.0 Hardware As part of catering to Google requirements around Google Chromebooks, AMD has been supporting Sound Open Firmware as the Intel-initiated open-source project across their APUs/SoCs. Sent out today was the patch for enabling ACP 7.0 SOF support for their newest SoCs like Strix Point to have Sound Open Firmware support... https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-ACP-7.0-SOF-Driver image
Several Newer Gaming Handheld Devices To See Linux Sensor Monitoring Support The upstream Linux "oxp-sensors" driver began as a driver for supporting the sensors on the OneXPlayer handheld. With time this driver has been extended to support more handheld gaming consoles and a new patch enables support for several more devices... https://www.phoronix.com/news/OXP-Sensors-More-Hardware image
LibreOffice 24.8 Delivers Many Advancements To This Free Software Office Suite LibreOffice 24.8 is officially out today as the latest major feature update to this open-source office suite that's the leading free software alternative to Microsoft Office. With LibreOffice 24.8 comes many new features throughout its various components... https://www.phoronix.com/news/LibreOffice-24.8-Released image
Over 9 Years LVFS Has Served Over 110 Million Firmware Files To Linux Systems This week marks nine years since the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) was started by Richard Hughes of Red Hat to ease the firmware updating/distribution process with the open-source Fwupd firmware updating utility... https://www.phoronix.com/news/LVFS-9th-Birthday image
VirtualBox 7.1 Beta 2 Released For This Big Oracle Virtualization Update Released last month was the VirtualBox 7.1 Beta 1 virtualization software release from Oracle. This new version is bringing a modernized GUI, Wayland clipboard sharing, and other improvements. Released yesterday was the second beta of this big VirtualBox update... https://www.phoronix.com/news/VirtualBox-7.1-Beta-2 image
Intel Continues To Show AMD The Importance Of Software Optimizations: 16% More Ryzen 9 9950X Performance As part of my ongoing AMD Ryzen 9 9950X Linux testing, last week I provided a look at the AVX-512 benefits to Zen 5 and also the Windows vs. Linux performance for the Ryzen 9 9950X. For sharing today is a look at multiple Linux distributions up and running on the AMD Ryzen 9 9950X (Zen 5) desktop. Among the distributions in the mix a… https://www.phoronix.com/review/linux-os-amd-ryzen9-9950x image
Arch Linux Based CachyOS Switches To Open NVIDIA Kernel Modules, COSMIC Desktop Option Arch Linux powered CachyOS that is known for its performance optimizations and other enhancements is out with its "August 2024" rolling release update... https://www.phoronix.com/news/CachyOS-August-2024 image
Lab Wayland Compositor 0.8 Released, Ported To wlroots 0.18 Lab Wayland Compositor "labwc" v0.8 is now available as the newest release of this Wayland compositor that has been re-based against the wlroots 0.18 Wayland library... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Labwc-Lab-Wayland-Compositor-08 image