Bottles Software For Easily Running Windows Games/Apps On Linux To Leverage Rust Bottles as the open-source manager for Wine to more easily run Windows games and applications on Linux has been pursuing the "Bottles Next" initiative as a rewrite to this software. The Bottles developers have decided they will be leveraging the Rust programming language as well as the libcomsic UI toolkit as part of this rewrite... image
The Performance Benefits Of Linux 6.12 LTS Over Linux 6.6 LTS Linux 6.12 was recently promoted to being this year's Long Term Support (LTS) kernel with it being the last major kernel release of 2024. For those enterprise Linux users, hyperscalers, and others typically jumping from one annual LTS kernel to the next, in this holiday article are some benchmarks looking at the performance benefits of Linux 6.12 LTS compared to Linux 6.6 LTS while te… image
Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Linux Distribution Goes Into Alpha It's been a few months since hearing anything new out of Serpent OS, the original Linux distribution led by Ikey Doherty, who started Solus Linux and also was involved with Intel's Clear Linux. As a Christmas surprise, Serpent OS has now reached the alpha stage of development...
CachyOS Update Now Uses AutoFDO-Optimized Kernel, Rusticl Driver The CachyOS December 2024 update is out today as the newest monthly release to this performance-optimized, Arch Linux based operating system... image
GNOME User Sharing Ported From C To Rust, libadwaita Adds Adaptive Preview Mode It's not only KDE seeing nice improvements ahead of the holidays but GNOME developers were also busy this week preparing new improvements to their open-source desktop stack. There's been some rather exciting changes on the GNOME front as we prepare to cap off the year... image
KDE Plasma 6.3 Improving Game Controller Joystick Support, Many Fixes While the Christmas holidays are quickly approach, KDE developers remain busy working on new features for the upcoming Plasma 6.3 desktop as well as continuing to land many bug fixes... image
Wayland Protocols 1.39 Released With Data Control & Workspace Additions Jonas Γ…dahl of Red Hat just released Wayland Protocols 1.39 as the latest set of updates to this de facto repository for Wayland protocols... image
Fish Shell 4.0 Beta Released With C++ Code Ported To Rust The Fish Shell as the interactive, user-friendly command line shell debuted its 4.0 beta release ahead of the holidays. Notably in this release is porting the C++ code over to the Rust programming language... image
AMD Preps Many Graphics Driver Updates For Linux 6.14, DRM Panic Support AMD today sent out a first batch of "new stuff" feature patches to DRM-Next of new code for their AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD compute driver of material for the Linux 6.14 kernel cycle... image
System76 Releases Updated AMD Ryzen Linux Laptop System76 has been offering AMD-powered Linux laptops for a few years now and before rounding out 2024 they have announced the new Pangolin "Pang15" laptop with an updated SoC, 2K display with 16:10 screen ratio and 120Hz refresh rate, and other refinements to this all-aluminum build Linux laptop... image