GStreamer 1.28-RC1 Brings A Rust-Based GIF Decoder, Other New Rust Components On Monday the first release candidate of the GStreamer 1.28 multimedia framework was released. As is a recurring focus in recent releases, more GStreamer code is written in Rust for memory safety especially around decoding content...

GStreamer 1.28-RC1 Brings A Rust-Based GIF Decoder, Other New Rust Components - Phoronix

On Monday the first release candidate of the GStreamer 1.28 multimedia framework was released

Intel Talks Up Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" & Arc B390 Graphics Intel just hosted their CES keynote where they formally launched Panther Lake as the Core Ultra Series 3 SoCs...

Intel Talks Up Core Ultra Series 3 "Panther Lake" & Arc B390 Graphics - Phoronix

Intel just hosted their CES keynote where they formally launched Panther Lake as the Core Ultra Series 3 SoCs.

GNOME & Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default: "An X11'ism...Dumpster Fire" Both the GNOME desktop and Mozilla Firefox browser projects are considering disabling middle-click-paste functionality by default...

GNOME & Firefox Consider Disabling Middle Click Paste By Default: "An X11'ism...Dumpster Fire" - Phoronix

Both the GNOME desktop and Mozilla Firefox browser projects are considering disabling middle-click-paste functionality by default.

Valve & AMD Developers Delivered The Most Code Contributions To Mesa In 2025 A developer from Valve working on the RADV Vulkan driver was once again the most prolific contributor to Mesa in 2025 followed by AMD's Marek Olšák with continued improvements around RadeonSI and Gallium3D...

Valve & AMD Developers Delivered The Most Code Contributions To Mesa In 2025 - Phoronix

A developer from Valve working on the RADV Vulkan driver was once again the most prolific contributor to Mesa in 2025 followed by AMD's Marek ...

Radeon RADV Driver Lands Another Ray-Tracing Improvement: 30% Faster On RDNA2 Konstantin Seurer as one of the open-source developers working on the RADV driver for Valve has landed another ray-tracing performance optimization for the upcoming Mesa 26.0 release...

Radeon RADV Driver Lands Another Ray-Tracing Improvement: 30% Faster On RDNA2 - Phoronix

Konstantin Seurer as one of the open-source developers working on the RADV driver for Valve has landed another ray-tracing performance optimization...

Apple SMC Power Driver Posted For Linux Kernel To Finally Expose Battery Stats The newest open-source Apple Silicon driver being submitted for review in working toward its inclusion in the mainline Linux kernel is the Apple Silicon SMC power driver for being able to expose MacBook battery power metrics as well as AC power adapter status reporting under Linux...

Apple SMC Power Driver Posted For Linux Kernel To Finally Expose Battery Stats - Phoronix

The newest open-source Apple Silicon driver being submitted for review in working toward its inclusion in the mainline Linux kernel is the Apple Si...

GNU ddrescue 1.30 "Orders of Magnitude" Better In Recovery From Drives With A Dead Head GNU ddrescue as the free software data recovery tool from files or block devices is out today with a big feature release. The new GNU ddrescue 1.30 is improved by "orders of magnitude" for the automatic recovery from drives with a dead head...

GNU ddrescue 1.30 "Orders of Magnitude" Better In Recovery From Drives With A Dead Head - Phoronix

GNU ddrescue as the free software data recovery tool from files or block devices is out today with a big feature release

Manjaro Linux 26.0 Rolling Out - Xfce Edition Recommended If Wanting To Use X11 Package updates for the Arch Linux powered Manjaro Linux distribution have been pushed out for Manjaro 26.0 "Anh-Linh" while updated ISOs are expected to soon become available. The Manjaro 26.0 milestone brings KDE Plasma 6.5 and GNOME 49 but with both of those you may lose X11 session support so they are recommending their Xfce Edition for wanting wanting to continue using an X.Org desktop …

Manjaro Linux 26.0 Rolling Out - Xfce Edition Recommended If Wanting To Use X11 - Phoronix

Package updates for the Arch Linux powered Manjaro Linux distribution have been pushed out for Manjaro 26.0 'Anh-Linh' while updated ISOs...

Patch Posted For Bringing Rock Band 4 PS4 / PS5 Guitar Support To Linux Following Linux 6.19 adding support for CRKD guitar controllers, new patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list are bringing some additional guitar controllers to Linux. This latest work is around enabling the Rock Band 4 guitars for the PlayStation 4 and PS5 consoles to work under Linux...

Patch Posted For Bringing Rock Band 4 PS4 / PS5 Guitar Support To Linux - Phoronix

Following Linux 6.19 adding support for CRKD guitar controllers, new patches posted to the Linux kernel mailing list are bringing some additional g...

KDE Plasma 6.6 Fixes A Common Panel-Related Crash, Improves OpenBSD Support KDE developer Nate Graham is out with the first issue of This Week in Plasma for 2026. Last week was a warning that This Week in Plasma could become less frequent without new volunteers to help takeover. Nate Graham announced that John Veness has stepped up to help co-author these weekly KDE development posts...

KDE Plasma 6.6 Fixes A Common Panel-Related Crash, Improves OpenBSD Support - Phoronix

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with the first issue of This Week in Plasma for 2026