Apple M4 Mac Mini With macOS vs. Intel / AMD With Ubuntu Linux Performance Apple last week released their latest iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro products powered by their fourth-generation M-series Apple Silicon. The new Mac Mini in particular is interesting for under $600 starting out with the all re-designed Mac Mini with 10-core M4 and now the base model having 16GB of memory. It will take some time before there is any reasonable Linu…

Apple M4 Mac Mini With macOS vs. Intel / AMD With Ubuntu Linux Performance Review - Phoronix

Apple last week released their latest iMac, Mac Mini, and MacBook Pro products powered by their fourth-generation M-series Apple Silicon.

Ubuntu 25.04 To Further Enhance Its Installer, Aims For Linux 6.14 Kernel Canonical's Interim Engineering Director for Ubuntu Desktop, Oliver Smith, has shared some early roadmap plans for the Ubuntu 25.04 development cycle...

Ubuntu 25.04 To Further Enhance Its Installer, Aims For Linux 6.14 Kernel - Phoronix

Canonical's Interim Engineering Director for Ubuntu Desktop, Oliver Smith, has shared some early roadmap plans for the Ubuntu 25.04 developmen...

Memtest86+ 7.20 Adds Support For Intel Arrow Lake & AMD Zen 5 Memtet86+ 7.0 debuted back in January while now as we approach the end of 2024, Memtest86+ 7.20 is now available as the latest significant update to this open-source memory tester commonly used on Intel and AMD systems...

Memtest86+ 7.20 Adds Support For Intel Arrow Lake & AMD Zen 5 - Phoronix

Memtest86+ 7.0 debuted back in January while now as we approach the end of 2024, Memtest86+ 7.20 is now available as the latest significant update ...

Basic Support For Many Pre-M1 Apple Devices Coming To Linux 6.13 While not as exciting as if it were Apple M3/M4 device support hitting the upstream mainline Linux kernel, but for those with some older Apple (pre-M1) devices around, support for a number of older SoCs and boards is set to arrive with the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel...

Basic Support For Many Pre-M1 Apple Devices Coming To Linux 6.13 - Phoronix

While not as exciting as if it were Apple M3/M4 device support hitting the upstream mainline Linux kernel, but for those with some older Apple (pre...

Wine-Staging 9.21 Fixes Some Old Game Crashes & Hangs Due To DirectMusic Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.21, Wine-Staging 9.21 is available as this experimental blend of Wine that carries extra patches for testing/evaluation to enhance the ability for Windows games and apps to run on Linux...

Wine-Staging 9.21 Fixes Some Old Game Crashes & Hangs Due To DirectMusic - Phoronix

Building off Friday's release of Wine 9.21, Wine-Staging 9.21 is available as this experimental blend of Wine that carries extra patches for t...

Niri 0.1.10 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Brings Many Improvements If this weekend's release of Hyprland 0.45 doesn't suit your fancy, Niri is also out this weekend with a new feature release. Niri is the scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor for an interesting Linux desktop experience...

Niri 0.1.10 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Brings Many Improvements - Phoronix

If this weekend's release of Hyprland 0.45 doesn't suit your fancy, Niri is also out this weekend with a new feature release

Debian 12.8 Released With Many Bug Fixes & Security Updates Debian 12.8 is out today as the latest media refresh for the "Bookworm" release with numerous security fixes along with other general bug fixes included as part of the assortment of package updates...

Debian 12.8 Released With Many Bug Fixes & Security Updates - Phoronix

Debian 12.8 is out today as the latest media refresh for the 'Bookworm' release with numerous security fixes along with other general bug...

NVIDIA Outlines Current Wayland Limitations & Upcoming Driver Features Longtime NVIDIA Linux engineer Aaron Plattner shared a status update on Friday around the current feature parity difference between the NVIDIA driver stack on X11 and under (X)Wayland...

NVIDIA Outlines Current Wayland Limitations & Upcoming Driver Features - Phoronix

Longtime NVIDIA Linux engineer Aaron Plattner shared a status update on Friday around the current feature parity difference between the NVIDIA driv...

Linux 6.13 Bringing DRM Panic Support To NVIDIA GPUs Friday saw a final round of "drm-misc-next" feature updates ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel merge window. The DRM Panic code continues to be enhanced for improving this "Blue Screen of Death" like experience on the Linux desktop...

Linux 6.13 Bringing DRM Panic Support To NVIDIA GPUs - Phoronix

Friday saw a final round of 'drm-misc-next' feature updates ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.13 kernel merge window

Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted To Same Tier As GNOME-Based Fedora Workstation Earlier this year was a Fedora change proposal seeking to make KDE Plasma the default over GNOME for Fedora 42. A compromise of sorts has now been settled on with the Fedora Desktop Spin being promoted to an "Edition" status that will put it on the same level as the GNOME-based Fedora Workstation Edition...

Fedora KDE Desktop Spin Promoted To Same Tier As GNOME-Based Fedora Workstation - Phoronix

Earlier this year was a Fedora change proposal seeking to make KDE Plasma the default over GNOME for Fedora 42