KDE Plasma 6.4 Is Looking To Be In Good Shape, Fewer Bugs KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly blog post summarizing all of the interesting KDE Plasma developments for the past week. Notable this week was the debut of Plasma 6.4 stable and from early user feedback appears to be in good shape... image
Vulkan 1.4.319 Published With New Data Graph Extension Just one week after Vulkan 1.4.318 was introduced with a new Valve extension, Vulkan 1.4.319 released this morning with another new extension... image
Microsoft Releases WSL 2.6 As The First Open-Source Release Microsoft announced back in May at their Build developer conference that WSL would be going open-source. Todya Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.6 was released as their first new release now being an open-source project...
Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance On The AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 "Strix Halo" While the results shouldn't be too surprising given the recent AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 Windows 11 vs. Linux testing, when the HP ZBook Ultra G1a powered by the step-down AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 arrived with Microsoft Windows 11 Pro, I also took the opportunity to run some Windows vs. Linux performance benchmarks on that AMD Strix Halo SoC. image
Intel NPU Accelerator Driver Readies "Turbo Mode" For Better Performance Sent out today was the latest weekly batch of drm-misc-next changes for consisting of various Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) core updates as well as changes to the smaller display/graphics kernel drivers plus the growing work around accelerator "accel" drivers within the kernel. Intel NPU accelerator driver changes stand out for this week's pull request ahead o… image
Intel Begins Sending In Kernel Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.17 Intel open-source software driver engineers have begun sending in their new kernel graphics driver feature pulls to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.17 merge window coming up by early August. There is some new feature work included as part of Intel's pull requests for the weeks along with more PCI device IDs being introduced, bug fixes, and other code refactoring... image
Mesa 25.1.4 Delivers Latest Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes Eric Engestrom released Mesa 25.1.4 on Wednesday as the latest bi-weekly point release for this collection of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers predominantly used on Linux systems... image
Godot 4.5 Beta Released With Better Wayland Support The first beta release of the Godot 4.5 open-source game engine is now available for testing. Notable for Linux users is the continued quest toward Wayland support at parity to X11... image
XWayland 24.1.8 & X.Org Server 21.1.18 Further Address Yesterday's Security Disclosures Released yesterday were X.Org Server 21.1.17 and XWayland 24.1.7 to address another batch of six security vulnerabilities reported by security researchers. Out today is X.Org Server 21.1.18 and XWayland 24.1.8 in order to further button up one of the security issues reported yesterday... image
Servo Browser Engine Finally Supporting Animated GIFs The Servo browser engine project born out of Mozilla as an early Rust project and now advanced by open-source developers from various firms continues moving forward. Servo has finally scratched animated GIF support off its TODO list among other features... image