Wayland Protocols 1.39 Released With Data Control & Workspace Additions Jonas Ådahl of Red Hat just released Wayland Protocols 1.39 as the latest set of updates to this de facto repository for Wayland protocols... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Protocols-1.39

Fish Shell 4.0 Beta Released With C++ Code Ported To Rust The Fish Shell as the interactive, user-friendly command line shell debuted its 4.0 beta release ahead of the holidays. Notably in this release is porting the C++ code over to the Rust programming language... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fish-Shell-4.0-Beta

AMD Preps Many Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 6.14, DRM Panic Support AMD today sent out a first batch of "new stuff" feature patches to DRM-Next of new code for their AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver of material for the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.14-AMDGPU-Changes

System76 Releases Updated AMD Ryzen Linux Laptop System76 has been offering AMD-powered Linux laptops for a few years now and before rounding out 2024 they have announced the new Pangolin "Pang15" laptop with an updated SoC, 2K display with 16:10 screen ratio and 120Hz refresh rate, and other refinements to this all-aluminum build Linux laptop... https://www.phoronix.com/news/System76-Pangolin-15-AMD-Linux

Linux 6.1 LTS Kernel To Receive An Extra Year Of Support Greg Kroah-Hartman has decided to extend the Linux 6.1 LTS planned lifespan from four to five years... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.1-LTS-Extended-5-Years

Qt 6.9 Beta Released With New Toolkit Features Qt 6.9 beta is out today as the first test release for this updated Qt6 toolkit... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-6.9-Beta-Released

VKD3D-Proton 2.14 Released With New Features For D3D12 On Vulkan Hans-Kristian Arntzen with Valvej ust released VKD3D-Proton 2.14 as the newest version of this Direct3D 12 implementation built atop the Vulkan API for Valve's Steam Play (Proton)... https://www.phoronix.com/news/VKD3D-Proton-2.14

Fedora COSMIC Desktop Spin Proposed For Fedora 42 A new "Fedora COSMIC" spin of Fedora Linux has been proposed that would feature the Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment currently being developed by Linux PC vendor System76... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-42-COSMIC-Spin-Proposed

Linux Mint 22.1 Beta Released With Cinnamon 6.4 Desktop, Updated Apt Code The beta release of Linux Mint 22.1 "Xia" is now available for testing of this desktop Linux distribution based on Ubuntu LTS releases and known for its Cinnamon desktop environment... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Mint-22.1-Beta

SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Price Lowered, Ubuntu 24.04 Support Ready Going back to April 2024, SiFive announced the HiFive Premier P550 as an interesting RISC-V developer board to succeed their HiFive Unleashed that was a nice little RISC-V board. There were delays in shipping the HiFive Premier P550 but they have been making progress and are now ready to ship Ubuntu 24.04 LTS pre-installed on this RISC-V board. They have also lower… https://www.phoronix.com/news/HiFive-Premier-P550-Drop