Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Retires While Intel has been under much financial difficulties and as they pursue their build out of new fabs to better compete with TSMC, to much surprise Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired effective today... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-CEO-Pat-Gelsinger-Retires

Qt 6.8.1 Toolkit Released With 550+ Bug Fixes Building off the early October release of Qt 6.8 LTS, Qt 6.8.1 is out today with more than 550 fixes collected over the past two months... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-6.8.1-Released

Lutris 0.5.18 Linux Game Manager Brings Many Improvements Lutris 0.5.18 is out today as the newest version of this open-source game manager for Linux systems to help with installing and playing a variety of games whether they be native Linux titles, emulated Windows games with the likes of Wine / Proton, or console emulated games and more. Lutris also continues integrating with the likes of Steam, GOG, Humble Bundle, and other online game se… https://www.phoronix.com/news/Lutris-0.5.18-Released

Linux 6.13-rc1 Released With Many New Features As expected, this evening Linus Torvalds released Linux 6.13-rc1 to cap-off the two-week Linux 6.13 merge window. With Linux 6.13 comes many new features... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-rc1-Released

Xfce 4.20 Pre2 Released For Testing Following the Xfce 4.20 Pre1 release from one month ago, Xfce 4.20 Pre2 is ready for testing ahead of the planned desktop release in two weeks... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xfce-4.20-Pre2

Resources System Monitoring App For GNOME Now Displays NPU Usage As an alternative to the GNOME System Monitor application for system monitoring, Resources has been in development as a currently unofficial, GNOME-aligned resource/hardware monitoring application written in the Rust programming language. Resources v1.7 was released on Friday and now has the ability to monitor NPU usage and other enhancements... https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Resources-1.7

Resources System Monitoring App For GNOME Now Displays NPU Usage As an alternative to the GNOME System Monitor application for system monitoring, Resources has been in development as a currently unofficial, GNOME-aligned resource/hardware monitoring application written in the Rust programming language. Resources v1.7 was released on Friday and now has the ability to monitor NPU usage and other enhancements... https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Resources-1.7

Clang AutoFDO & Propeller Optimization Support Sent In For Linux 6.13: 5~10% More Performance Making for an even more exciting Black Friday is the Kbuild pull request submitted today for the near-over Linux 6.13 merge window... And it includes Clang Auto Feedback Directed Optimization (AutoFDO) support for kernel builds as well as Clang's Propeller... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Kbuild-Clang-AutoFDO-Linux-6.13

Phoronix Black Friday Reminders Just a quick reminder this "Black Friday" if you would like to help show your support... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Phoronix-Black-Friday-2024

Linux 6.13 SoundWire Preps DisCo 2.0 Support The SoundWire subsystem updates were sent out today for the Linux 6.13 kernel. This cycle brings new AMD driver support as well as supporting the MIPI DisCo 2.0 specification... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.13-SoundWire-DisCo-2.0