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For those Linux desktop users in the US needing another reason to be thankful this Thanksgiving, a huge and long-awaited accomplishment is ready for merging to the kernel: the Color Pipeline API that is important for HDR is ready for merging! As of last night the code is queued in DRM-Misc-Next for this years-in-the-making effort...
Just a few days ago I wrote about the Glibc math code seeing a 4x improvement on AMD Zen by changing the used FMA implementation. Merged overnight was a new generic FMA implementation for the GNU C Library and now yielding up to a 12.9x throughput improvement on AMD Zen 3...
Canonical announced today the Ubuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon" Snapshot 1 images as their first monthly ISO snapshots of the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release...
Hey everyone! Recording this week's Linux.org update on Friday and wanted to give you a heads up on what we're covering: Your Weekly Stats: Top 10 threads by views & replies Most active posters this week New member count Latest forum activity Feature Topic: GNU Screen - The Old School Way Yeah yeah, I know tmux is the "cool" thing everyone uses now... but some of us remember when Screen was THE multiplexer. Still pre-installed on... https://www.linux.org/threads/this-...ideo-friday-recording-t-shirt-giveaway.59081/
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Ubuntu developers confirm plans to ship 2 new apps in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, replacing its video and system monitor apps with a pair it feels are more 'modern'.
I'm biased, but I'm loving the new logo/stickers! Perfect size for laptops! About $2 each.. https://www.redbubble.com/i/sticker/linux-org-2025-logo-long-by-kprojects/175890389.EJUG5 https://www.linux.org/threads/linux-org-laptop-stickers.59080/
Two years and one week since the prior point release, Common Desktop Environment 2.5.3 is now available as the latest iteration of this Unix desktop environment built around the Motif toolkit. CDE has been open-source for more than a decade now but its development not exactly brisk. But for those resisting the likes of Wayland and other modern display tech -- especially with KDE announcing today Plasma 6.8 will be Wayland-exclusive -- CDE 2.5.3 is now available...
Originally opened in September 2020 by NVIDIA Linux engineer James Jones, tonight the Vulkan VK_EXT_present_timing extension was finally merged! Five years in the making and incorporating contributions from Google, NVIDIA, AMD, Collabora, Samsung, Unity, and Red Hat is this prominent new addition to the Vulkan API...
GNOME 49.2 is now available as the second point release to the latest GNOME 49 desktop environment series with various bug fixes and improvements.
GNOME 49.2 desktop environment updates Shell, GTK, GLib, Nautilus, Epiphany, and other key components, focusing solely on stability and bug fixes.
The upcoming KDE Plasma 6.8 desktop environment will drop the Plasma X11 session and fully adopt the Plasma Wayland session.
These are some updates to make things better.
KDE Plasma 6.8 will be Wayland-only, joining GNOME 50 in removing support for running the desktop session on the legacy X display server. As with GNOME, the change does not mean X11 applications will no longer work in Plasma 6.8 as they will run on Wayland using Xwayland. But a Plasma X11 desktop session will not be provided. “For most users, this will have no immediate impact,” the KDE team say, adding that “the vast majority of our users are already using the Wayland session, it’s the default on most distributions, and some of them have already dropped — or […]
KDE's Plasma team has announced that KDE Plasma will drop X11 session support with Plasma 6.8: The Plasma X11 session will be supported by KDE into early 2027. We cannot provide a specific date, as we're exploring the possibility of shipping some extra bug-fix releases for Plasma 6.7. The exact timing of the last one will only be known when we get closer to its actual release, which we expect will be sometime in early 2027. What if I still really need X11? This is a perfect use case for long term support (LTS) distributions shipping older versions of Plasma. For example, AlmaLinux 9 includes the Plasma X11 session and will be supported until sometime in 2032. See the blog post for information on running X11 applications (still supported), accessibility, gaming, and more.
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