Mesa's Vulkan WSI Now Supports Wayland Color Management Adding to the flurry of open-source work recently around the merged Wayland color management protocol for supporting HDR, the Mesa Vulkan Windowing System Integration (WSI) code has added support for this protocol...

Mesa's Vulkan WSI Now Supports Wayland Color Management - Phoronix

Adding to the flurry of open-source work recently around the merged Wayland color management protocol for supporting HDR, the Mesa Vulkan Windowing...

GNOME 48 Mutter Merges Wayland's wp_color_management_v1 Support As an exciting late addition to the GNOME 48 codebase ahead of its stable release in mid-March, the Wayland color management "wp_color_management_v1" protocol support has been merged!..

GNOME 48 Mutter Merges Wayland's wp_color_management_v1 Support - Phoronix

As an exciting late addition to the GNOME 48 codebase ahead of its stable release in mid-March, the Wayland color management 'wp_color_managem...

Jolla Releases Sailfish OS 5.0 With WireGuard VPN, Updated Android Compatibility For those intrigued by Jolla's Linux-based Sailfish OS mobile phone operating system, Sailfish OS 5.0 is officially out today as the latest iteration of this software stack...

Jolla Releases Sailfish OS 5.0 With WireGuard VPN, Updated Android Compatibility - Phoronix

For those intrigued by Jolla's Linux-based Sailfish OS mobile phone operating system, Sailfish OS 5.0 is officially out today as the latest it...

GNU Emacs 30.1 Released With Android Support, Emacs Lisp Native Compiler By Default GNU Emacs 30.1 is out today as the newest version of this extensible text editor...

GNU Emacs 30.1 Released With Android Support, Emacs Lisp Native Compiler By Default - Phoronix

GNU Emacs 30.1 is out today as the newest version of this extensible text editor.

AMD Preparing New GPU Support For Their Kernel Graphics Driver In Linux 6.15 AMD has sent out their initial pull request of "new stuff" for their AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver of feature additions they want to make for the upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel. Most notable from this week's submission to DRM-Next is preparing a lot of new GPU hardware support...

AMD Preparing New GPU Support For Their Kernel Graphics Driver In Linux 6.15 - Phoronix

AMD has sent out their initial pull request of 'new stuff' for their AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver of feature a...

OneXPlayer Linux Driver Catching Up To The Windows Monitoring Driver OneXPlayer produces a line of handheld gaming consoles powered by AMD or Intel SoCs. These devices ship with Windows out-of-the-box but given they are x86_64 software have worked alright with Linux and there's been a OneXPlayer Linux driver for supporting sensor readings and other device-specific information from these handhelds. In a big patch series this weekend, t…

OneXPlayer Linux Driver Catching Up To The Windows Monitoring Driver - Phoronix

OneXPlayer produces a line of handheld gaming consoles powered by AMD or Intel SoCs

Wine Staging 10.2 Adds Support For AF_UNIX Sockets Following Friday's release of Wine 10.2, Wine Staging 10.2 is out for testing as this more experimental/leading-edge version of Wine that is shipping with 300+ extra patches for testing...

Wine Staging 10.2 Adds Support For AF_UNIX Sockets - Phoronix

Following Friday's release of Wine 10.2, Wine Staging 10.2 is out for testing as this more experimental/leading-edge version of Wine that is s...

Niri 25.02 & Labwc 0.8.3 Wayland Compositors Released The Niri and Labwc Wayland compositor projects are both out with new releases this weekend to further their efforts...

Niri 25.02 & Labwc 0.8.3 Wayland Compositors Released - Phoronix

The Niri and Labwc Wayland compositor projects are both out with new releases this weekend to further their efforts.

Ubuntu 25.04 Working To Better Cope With BitLocker-Enabled Windows, Other Improvements Jean Baptiste Lallement was recently appointed at Canonical as the new Director of Engineering for Ubuntu Desktop. Jean Baptiste Lallement has a decade and a half history at Canonical working on Ubuntu QA, Ubuntu Phone / Unity, and other projects while now he is leading the charge on further enhancing the Ubuntu desktop initiatives. As somewhat of a mid-…

Ubuntu 25.04 Working To Better Cope With BitLocker-Enabled Windows, Other Improvements - Phoronix

Jean Baptiste Lallement was recently appointed at Canonical as the new Director of Engineering for Ubuntu Desktop

Ubuntu 25.04 Working On More Improvements For Snapdragon X1 Elite Laptop Support We are nearing one year since the first Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops shipped with Windows 11 ARM. For the upcoming Ubuntu 25.04 release it's looking like more of these ARM-powered laptops will have somewhat usable support at least for those wanting to avoid Intel Core Ultra or AMD Ryzen laptops...

Ubuntu 25.04 Working On More Improvements For Snapdragon X1 Elite Laptop Support - Phoronix

We are nearing one year since the first Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 Elite laptops shipped with Windows 11 ARM