Linux NewsCOSMIC Desktop’s Big Visual Upgrade Moves Closer to Release
COSMIC Desktop’s Frosted Glass effect moves closer to release with new Settings controls for opacity, thickness, panels, applets, and windows.
This dev’s personal website is a working GNOME 2 desktop
Reliving the glory days of the GNOME 2 desktop is but a browser tab away – well, kinda. The personal website of Benny Powers, a software developer at Red Hat, is not a traditional vertical column of text. Nor is it a slop-soup of purple gradients, rounded glassy cards and monospaced datapoints (the ‘vibe-coded website’ aesthetic everywhere right now). No, it’s an interactive GNOME 2 ‘desktop’. He built it after digesting an essay on how websites used to be weird and playful and unique. Looking at his own site, he decided it wasn’t nearly wacky enough, so restyled it to […]
3 unheard-of Linux tools that fix everyday command-line annoyances
If you've used Linux, you've undoubtedly experienced these problems, so why not take a look?
Hyprland 0.55.3 Rolls Out with a Long List of Stability Fixes
Hyprland 0.55.3 backports fixes from main to the 0.55 branch, covering config reloads, rendering, monitors, XWayland, and more.
Windows only pretends it can't read Linux partitions—there's a built-in way to access them
Let's stop Windows from gaslighting you and show you your Linux files.
Firefox Merges Support For Vulkan Video Decoding
As an exciting development for GPU-accelerated video decoding within the Mozilla Firefox web browser, initial support for Vulkan Video has landed in the web browser!..
The Single Biggest Reason Why ProtonMail is Killing My Productivity
6 years of ditching Gmail and I still miss that tiny but handy feature.
Armbian Imager 2.0 Flashing Tools Debuts with First-Boot Setup Profiles
Armbian Imager 2.0 now allows users to preconfigure a username, password, Wi-Fi, timezone, locale, SSH keys, and shell before flashing.
Wayland Protocols 1.49 Released With Improved Multi-GPU Support, Windows BT.2100
Simon Ser just published Wayland Protocols 1.49 as the latest version for this primary set of Wayland protocol definitions...
"Flatten The Pick" Linux Patches Progress For Better cgroup Scheduling While Linux Gaming
A month ago I wrote about Linux scheduler work to help boost gaming performance on old "potato" hardware with Intel engineer Peter Zijlstra noting that Linux cgroup scheduling has continued to be "a pain in the arse." This work continues advancing with a third iteration of these "flatten the pick" patches being posted...
Mesa 26.2 Lands VK_GOOGLE_display_timing Support For Direct Display Mode
The VK_GOOGLE_display_timing extension for obtaining display timing information that can be useful for frame-pacing and eliminating micro-stuttering in games now has direct display mode support with KHR_display for the Mesa Vulkan drivers. This now merged addition immediately benefits the Intel ANV and Radeon RADV drivers as well as the PowerVR, Turnip, and V3DV drivers too...
Linux 7.1-rc7 Adding More AMD Zen 6 CPU Models
Ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc7 test kernel release due out later today, a pull request has been submitted of some "x86 fixes" for this kernel release. Most notable with this pull request is acknowledging some additional AMD Zen 6 CPU models...
Some Broadcom V3D Graphics Support On Path For Removed Over Lack Of Testing
Broadcom V3D 3.3 and V3D 4.1 graphics IP is set to be deprecated and removed from the V3D kernel graphics/display driver after the Mesa driver support was removed two years ago already. The situation in both cases amount to lack of hardware by developers for testing and with that likely no other known users of these particular Broadcom graphics in selects SoCs...
Armbian Imager 2.0 Flashing Tool for Armbian Linux Officially Released
Armbian Imager 2.0 open-source utility for flashing the Armbian Linux operating system on single-board computers is now available for download with a completely new design and rewritten flashing engine.
FreeBSD 15.1 Delayed To Mid-June Due To Critical x86 Bug Fixes
FreeBSD 15.1 was supposed to be out at the start of June but a second release candidate pushed it back by a week and now a third needed release candidate has pushed out the stable release by an additional week...
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