X.Org / FreeDesktop.org Encounters New Cloud Crisis: Needs New Infrastructure Very Soon About five years ago X.Org / FreeDesktop.org was experiencing a cloud hosting crisis with their cloud costs running out of control after losing free credits for Google Cloud and the continuous integration (CI) testing driving up expenses. They ended up switching public cloud providers over to Equinix. Equinix ended up sponsoring the X.Org Foundation …

X.Org / FreeDesktop.org Encounters New Cloud Crisis: Needs New Infrastructure Very Soon - Phoronix

About five years ago X.Org / FreeDesktop.org was experiencing a cloud hosting crisis with their cloud costs running out of control after losing fre...

Mesa 25.0 Lands New Driver Code To Further Enhance RadeonSI + ACO AMD Mesa driver guru Marek Olšák has landed a new set of 48 patches into Mesa 25.0-devel Git for refactoring various AMD-related driver code to work on improving the ACO compiler support within the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver...

Mesa 25.0 Sees New Driver Code To Further Enhance RadeonSI + ACO - Phoronix

AMD Mesa driver guru Marek Olšák has landed a new set of 48 patches into Mesa 25.0-devel Git for refactoring various AMD-related driver code to w...

System76's New Linux Mini PC Pairs Intel Meteor Lake + Dual 2.5G Ethernet + Coreboot System76 this morning announced the 2025 version of their Meerkat mini Linux PC. This new mini PC designed for Linux pairs an Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" SoC with dual 2.5G Ethernet and booting using Coreboot for a intriguing combination whether it's for a lightweight Linux desktop PC or a small office/home server...

System76's New Linux Mini PC Pairs Intel Meteor Lake + Dual 2.5G Ethernet + Coreboot - Phoronix

System76 this morning announced the 2025 version of their Meerkat mini Linux PC

WavPack 5.8 Lossless Audio Compression Tools Now Enable Multi-Threading By Default The open-source WavPack lossless audio compression format is out with a new release today for this BSD-licensed software around this audio code container...

WavPack 5.8 Lossless Audio Compression Tools Now Enable Multi-Threading By Default - Phoronix

The open-source WavPack lossless audio compression format is out with a new release today for this BSD-licensed software around this audio code con...

Hyprland 0.47 Wayland Compositor Delivers Experimental HDR, GPU Hotplugging Hyprland 0.47 is out to begin a new week with some exciting enhancements to this visuals-focused Wayland compositor...

Hyprland 0.47 Wayland Compositor Delivers Experimental HDR, GPU Hotplugging - Phoronix

Hyprland 0.47 is out to begin a new week with some exciting enhancements to this visuals-focused Wayland compositor.

GNOME 48 Alpha Released With Many New Features The GNOME 48 Alpha release was issued this morning for helping to test this updated desktop environment debuting as stable in March...

GNOME 48 Alpha Released With Many New Features - Phoronix

The GNOME 48 Alpha release was issued this morning for helping to test this updated desktop environment debuting as stable in March.

Initial Freeze Dates Announced For Debian 13.0 "Trixie" With Debian 13 due out in the coming months, the Debian 13 artwork/theme was recently announced as well as the Debian Installer Trixie Alpha 1 release. The latest is the freeze dates for Debian 13.0 being announced today...

Initial Freeze Dates Announced For Debian 13.0 "Trixie" - Phoronix

With Debian 13 due out in the coming months, the Debian 13 artwork/theme was recently announced as well as the Debian Installer Trixie Alpha 1 release

Intel Calls For More Modular PC Designs, Easier Component Replacement/Upgrades In an Intel blog post today they outlined their desire for a more modular PC design to enhance repairability and reduce e-waste. It's very much along similar lines of the Framework Computer upgradeable and easily serviceable laptops. With some luck hopefully we will be seeing more modular PC designs moving forward...

Intel Calls For More Modular PC Designs, Easier Component Replacement/Upgrades - Phoronix

In an Intel blog post today they outlined their desire for a more modular PC design to enhance repairability and reduce e-waste

Arch Linux Installer Adds Wayfire As A Desktop Option, Btrfs Improvements Archinstall 3.0.2 was just tagged as the newest version of this quick and easy, text-based installer for the Arch Linux operating system...

Arch Linux Installer Adds Wayfire As A Desktop Option, Btrfs Improvements - Phoronix

Archinstall 3.0.2 was just tagged as the newest version of this quick and easy, text-based installer for the Arch Linux operating system.

Free Software Foundation Marking 40 Years Old With A New Logo In October it will mark 40 years since the Free Software Foundation (FSF) was founded by Richard Stallman. In marking forty years of supporting the free software movement, they have been running a logo contest to memorialize the milestone. Today that new logo was unveiled...

Free Software Foundation Marking 40 Years Old With A New Logo - Phoronix

In October it will mark 40 years since the Free Software Foundation (FSF) was founded by Richard Stallman