Qt 6.9 Toolkit Beta 2 Now Available For Testing The second of three planned betas for the Qt 6.9 cross-platform UI toolkit is now available for testing ahead of the planned stable release in March... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-6.9-Beta-2

FreeBSD 15.0 Aims For Reproducible Builds / Zero-Trust Builds With Fresh Funding The FreeBSD Foundation has begun receiving funding to work on zero-trust builds / reproducible builds. The work will hopefully be wrapped up in time for the major FreeBSD 15.0 release... https://www.phoronix.com/news/FreeBSD-Zero-Trust-Repro-Builds

SDL 3 Officially Released With New APIs, Better HiDPI & Improved Audio Handling In addition to the Wine 10.0 stable release today, making the day very exciting as well for Linux gamers is the first official SDL 3.0 release!.. https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL3-Official-Release

Wine 10.0 Released With Native Wayland Support, Better HiDPI As was expected this week, Wine 10.0 stable is now available as the newest annual feature release to this open-source software that allows running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms. Wine also serves as the basis for Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and CodeWeavers' CrossOver software... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-10.0-Released

Raspberry Pi Monitor Pairs Great With The Raspberry Pi 500 As A $100 Display Along with recently announcing the Raspberry Pi 500 keyboard computer and the Raspberry Pi 5 16GB (review still forthcoming; the 16GB model only arrived last week), the Raspberry Pi Monitor debuted last month as their first foray into displays. For $100 USD you get a 15.6-inch 1080p display that is simple but pairs well with the Raspberry Pi 400/500 or just the sing… https://www.phoronix.com/review/raspberry-pi-monitor

AMD Seeking Feedback Around What Radeon GPUs You Would Like Supported By ROCm An engineer from AMD by way of their Nod.ai acquisition is seeking feedback from the community around what other Radeon graphics cards you would like to see supported by the ROCm support on Linux. This community wishlist extends to ROCm Windows support as well but at least there the HIP Rutime/SDK on Windows already supports more consumer GPUs than Linux... https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Feedback-ROCm-Support

Wine 10.0 Expected This Week For Improving Windows Software On Linux After six release candidates going back to early December, it looks like Wine 10.0 stable will be ready to ship this week. This is largely as expected with the annual Wine stable releases tending to come around mid-to-late January. Here's a look at what's ahead for this stable release for enjoying Windows games and applications under Linux and other platforms... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-10.0-Features

QH Electronics Game Controller Support Being Added For Linux 6.14 Thanks to Valve, another Xbox 360-compatible game controller will see support with the upstream XPad input driver with the upcoming Linux 6.14 kernel... https://www.phoronix.com/news/QH-Electronics-XPad-Linux-6.14

GNU Debugger GDB 16.1 Brings Better Intel PT Support, gstack Added GDB 16.1 was tagged today as the newest version of the GNU Debugger for helping debug a variety of programming languages on numerous different CPU architectures and platforms... https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNU-Debugger-GDB-16.1

Wine 10.0-rc6 Released With Another 18 Bugs Fixed Wine 10.0 is working its way to a stable release within the next week or two while for today there is the sixth weekly release candidate... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-10.0-rc6-Released