The Long-Awaited GIMP 3.0 Closing In On Its First Release Candidate The long-in-development GIMP 3.0 open-source alternative to Adobe Photoshop hopes to ship its release candidate in the near future... https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-3.0-RC1-Coming

Wine 9.19 Brings Improved Window Positioning On Wayland We are quickly working our way to the end of the calendar year where Wine 9.xx bi-weekly development releases will focus on a shift to stability for releasing Wine 10.0 in early 2025. But we're not there yet and Wine 9.19 is out today to deliver the newest batch of features and fixes for this open-source software to enjoy Windows games and apps on Linux... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-9.19-Released

AMD Ryzen AI 300 Series Dominates Intel Core Ultra 7 Lunar Lake Performance For Linux Developers & Creators Earlier this week I delivered initial Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics benchmarks on Linux while today the focus is on Lunar Lake's CPU performance. The Xe2 graphics performance under Linux was disappointingly slow with it performing even worse than Meteor Lake while RDNA3.5 graphics led. Intel has been investigating the Xe2 Linu… https://www.phoronix.com/review/core-ultra-7-lunar-lake-linux

Blender 4.3 Beta Delivers Experimental Vulkan UI Rendering Blender 4.3 is available today in beta form to encourage public testing of this next feature release to this leading open-source 3D modeling software... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-4.3-Beta

Red Hat Engineer Working On DRM Panic Support For AMDGPU Driver Red Hat engineer Jocelyn Falempe has been working to sort out DRM Panic support for the AMDGPU driver. The DRM Panic infrastructure is useful since it's what allows presenting a panic screen, a.k.a. a "Blue Screen of Death" type experience when running into major kernel problems. With Linux 6.12 there's now the ability to show QR codes for error messages with DRM Panic... https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMDGPU-DRM-Panic-Patch

Zrythm Digital Audio Workstation Abandoning GTK For Qt6 Zrythm is an interesting open-source digital audio workstation (DAW) software package. It's been making use of the GTK toolkit but now the developers have decided to switch to Qt6 instead... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Zrythm-Abandoning-GTK-For-Qt

Steam Remote Play Adds AV1 Video Streaming Support Plus More Linux Fixes Steam's Remote Play feature that allows playing Steam games on phones / tablets / TVs / other PCs while streamed from your main gaming system now is able to handle AV1 video streaming... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Steam-Remote-Play-AV1

Reverse PRIME Now Works Nicely On Ubuntu 24.10 For those making use of "reverse PRIME" setups where you have a primary NVIDIA discrete GPU while monitors are connected to Intel integrated graphics as the secondary GPU, such configurations should be working nicely with the upcoming Ubuntu 24.10 release under Wayland. This support is also likely to be back-ported for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.10-Reverse-PRIME

Cinnamon Pursuing Visual Improvements, Linux Mint Continues Working On Aptkit The Linux Mint project has published their status update for September 2024 that outlines work on this desktop-focused, Ubuntu-derived Linux distribution as well as its in-house Cinnamon desktop environment... https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Mint-September-2024

DOOM Ported To Run Atop AMD ROCm + LLVM libc An open-source developer at AMD has carried out a DOOM port that runs almost entirely atop AMD GPUs for rendering and the game logic. This DOOM GPU port relies on the AMD ROCm library with the LLVM libc C library for offloading the classic DOOM to the AMD GPU... https://www.phoronix.com/news/DOOM-ROCm-LLVM-Port