KDE Plasma 6.4 Lands Initial Support For The Wayland Session Restore Protocol It's been a very exciting week in the KDE Plasma space with the start of a big new feature landing for the Plasma 6.4 desktop...

KDE Plasma 6.4 Lands Initial Support For The Wayland Session Restore Protocol - Phoronix

It's been a very exciting week in the KDE Plasma space with the start of a big new feature landing for the Plasma 6.4 desktop.

Mesa 25.1 Merges Support For Intel EU Stall Sampling As New Xe2 Profiling Feature Merged to the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver for the current Linux 6.15 kernel cycle is EU Stall Sampling support as a new feature found with Xe2 Lunar Lake and Battlemage graphics. EU Stall Sampling is used for exposing information/reasons why execution units are stalled for helping to debug performance issues. Now that the kernel support is ready to go …

Mesa 25.1 Merges Support For Intel EU Stall Sampling As New Xe2 Profiling Feature - Phoronix

Merged to the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver for the current Linux 6.15 kernel cycle is EU Stall Sampling support as a new feature found with Xe2 ...

GCC 15 Is Bringing Some Nice Usability Improvements For Developers In addition to the upcoming GCC 15 stable compiler release bringing a COBOL language front-end, much better Rust support, revamped AVX10 support, and other shiny new language features and hardware supports, there are also some more fundamental usability improvements for developers...

GCC 15 Is Bringing Some Nice Usability Improvements For Developers - Phoronix

In addition to the upcoming GCC 15 stable compiler release bringing a COBOL language front-end, much better Rust support, revamped AVX10 support, a...

Intel Linux Graphics Driver Will Now Be Less Restrictive Over RAM Use A change merged yesterday to the Intel Mesa graphics driver code lessens a restriction around the amount of system memory (RAM) that can be used by processes for the Vulkan system heap. This will allow more games/apps to work with the Intel integrated graphics that previously exceeded the driver-enforced limits but at the risk of running into broader out-of-memory…

Intel Linux Graphics Driver Will Now Be Less Restrictive Over RAM Use - Phoronix

A change merged yesterday to the Intel Mesa graphics driver code lessens a restriction around the amount of system memory (RAM) that can be used by...

Gzip 1.14 Released With Faster Decompression On Intel & AMD CPUs Gzip 1.14 released earlier today as the first new release to this widely-used file compression format on Linux systems and other platforms...

Gzip 1.14 Released With Faster Decompression On Intel & AMD CPUs - Phoronix

Gzip 1.14 released earlier today as the first new release to this widely-used file compression format on Linux systems and other platforms.

Wayland Protocols 1.43 Released With Toplevel Tag Protocol Wayland Protocols 1.43 is out this morning with one new protocol: xdg_toplevel_tag_v1...

Wayland Protocols 1.43 Released With Toplevel Tag Protocol - Phoronix

Wayland Protocols 1.43 is out this morning with one new protocol: xdg_toplevel_tag_v1.

CUPS 2.4.12 Released To End Out The CUPS 2.4 Print Server Series After the CUPS lead developer left Apple and OpenPrinting taking up CUPS developer after Apple ceased development, CUPS 2.4 eventually materialized. CUPS 2.4 released in 2021 as the culmination of that work to restore the open-source development around this print server while today brings CUPS 2.4.12 for ending out the series and looking toward a future with CUPS 2.5...

CUPS 2.4.12 Released To End Out The CUPS 2.4 Print Server Series - Phoronix

After the CUPS lead developer left Apple and OpenPrinting taking up CUPS developer after Apple ceased development, CUPS 2.4 eventually materialized

Linux Patches Revised For The Lenovo Gaming Series WMI Drivers One of the patch series that unfortunately weren't finished up in time for the recent Linux v6.15 kernel merge window were the Lenovo Gaming Series WMI Drivers. These are the drivers for supporting some of the Lenovo gaming-oriented hardware under Linux and all the more interesting with the Lenovo Legion Go S handheld having an official Steam OS option...

Linux Patches Revised For The Lenovo Gaming Series WMI Drivers - Phoronix

One of the patch series that unfortunately weren't finished up in time for the recent Linux v6.15 kernel merge window were the Lenovo Gaming S...

Five Year Old Ubuntu Bug For NVIDIA Suspend/Resume Experience: Now Working On X11, Wayland Not Yet For those looking toward a pleasant suspend and resume experience on Ubuntu with the default GNOME desktop, the Ubuntu 25.04 cycle is poised to allow for addressing a five-year-old Ubuntu bug report around the experience. However, for the near-term this is only expected to be in good shape for those using the GNOME X11 session with the GNOME Wa…

Five Year Old Ubuntu Bug For NVIDIA Suspend/Resume Experience: Now Working On X11, Wayland Not Yet - Phoronix

For those looking toward a pleasant suspend and resume experience on Ubuntu with the default GNOME desktop, the Ubuntu 25.04 cycle is poised to all...

RISC-V With Linux 6.15 Adds Support For BFloat16 "BF16" Instructions Merged on Friday for the nearly-over Linux 6.15 merge window were the RISC-V CPU architecture updates for this next kernel release...

RISC-V With Linux 6.15 Adds Support For BFloat16 "BF16" Instructions - Phoronix

Merged on Friday for the nearly-over Linux 6.15 merge window were the RISC-V CPU architecture updates for this next kernel release.