GNOME 47 Release Candidate Brings Last Minute Changes The GNOME 47 release candidate was announced a short time ago in preparing for the stable GNOME 47 stable desktop coming up... https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-47-Release-Candidate

KDE Squeezes A Few More Features Into The Plasma 6.2 Desktop While KDE developers this weekend are busy attending Akademy 2024 as their annual developer conference taking place in Würzburg, Germany, prior to that there were a few last minute features merged for the upcoming Plasma 6.2 desktop... https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6.2-Pre-Akademy

Slimbook KDE Plasma VI Laptop Announced - Powered By AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS The Slimbook crew shared on Twitter/X that they are showing off the new Slimbook 6 (Slimbook VI) laptop this weekend during the KDE Akademy conference taking place in the wonderful Würzburg, Germany. This new Slimbook laptop features an AMD Ryzen 7 8845HS SoC and of course uses the KDE Plasma 6 desktop environment out-of-the-box... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Slimbook-Plasma-VI-Laptop

Wayland's Weston 14.0 Compositor Released Weston 14.0 was released today as the newest feature release for this reference Wayland compositor... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Weston-14.0

New Patches Bring Rust Linux Kernel Support To MIPS When it comes to the Rust programming language support within the Linux kernel one of the limitations is that the CPU architecture support isn't as widespread. Currently Rust for Linux supports x86_64, AArch64 (ARM64) little-endian, LoongArch, and RISC-V. While those cover the main targets, POWER is notably missing and many other niche CPU architectures supported by the Linux kernel… https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Linux-Kernel-MIPS-Patches

AMD Ryzen 9000 Series & Linux Kernel Drama Made For An Exciting August August was a very busy month with the first AMD Ryzen 9000 series "Zen 5" desktop processors going on sale, finally having AmpereOne 192-core Arm processors in the lab, Linux kernel development continuing to advance at a brisk pace, and a variety of other interesting software and hardware milestones. On Phoronix for the month were 213 original news articles authored by me… https://www.phoronix.com/news/August-2024-Highlights

Wayland Protocols 1.37 Introduces Three New Protocols Jonas Ådahl released Wayland-Protocols 1.37 as the newest update to this defined set of Wayland protocols. With the new release there are three new protocols added plus various other maintenance items addressed within the Wayland-Protocols repository... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Protocols-1.37

Intel Battlemage Battles More Linux 6.12 Kernel Graphics Driver Changes Following the pull request from earlier this week that enables Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake and Battlemage graphics by default for Linux 6.12, a final set of feature updates for the Intel kernel graphics driver have been submitted ahead of this next kernel cycle... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Ends-Linux-612-Feature-Xe

Vulkan 1.3.295 Released With Compute Shader Derivatives Extension Following last week's Vulkan 1.3.294 with pipeline binary extension, Vulkan 1.3.295 is out today and it too introduces a prominent new extension... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.3.295-Released

Microsoft Further Improves D3D12 Video Acceleration In Mesa Microsoft engineers continue contributing to the open-source Mesa graphics driver code for benefiting Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) usage and other related use atop Windows 11. The latest contribution to Mesa is wiring up direct DPB management for the D3D12 video acceleration code... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-D3D12-Video-Direct-DPB