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KDE Linux To Provide Better Hardware Support & Better Performance

Phoronix - 1 hour 51 min ago
Following the September release of the KDE LInux reference distribution for the KDE desktop in alpha form, KDE Linux developers have been working toward the beta release with more improvements to this open-source desktop distro...

KMS Recovery Mechanism Being Worked On For Linux Display Drivers

Phoronix - 2 hours 6 min ago
A Linux kernel engineer at Microsoft is working on a useful Linux desktop improvement. Hamza Mahfooz who previously worked for AMD on their AMDGPU Linux display driver code has been spearheading work on a KMS recovery mechanism to help kernel mode-setting display drivers recover in case of problems...

GNOME's Glycin 2.1 Beta Enables JPEG 2000 Support By Default

Phoronix - 2 hours 15 min ago
GNOME's Rust-based and sandboxed Glycin image loading library focused on safety now supports JPEG 2000 images by default...

Linux 6.19 Sees Last Minute Scheduler Regression Fixes

Phoronix - 2 hours 23 min ago
Ahead of the planned Linux 6.19 stable kernel release tomorrow, there have been some last-minute fixes submitted for the scheduler code, including for performance regressions...

Mesa 25.3.5 Brings Vulkan Driver Fixes & Other Minor Changes -- Even For Old The R600g

Phoronix - 8 hours 26 min ago
While Mesa 26.0 stable will be out soon, the belated Mesa 25.3.5 point release is now available for serving as the current latest stable point release...

KDE Plasma 6.6 Fixing Significant Issues With Fingerprint Authentication

Phoronix - 12 hours 17 min ago
There is less than two weeks to go until the official KDE Plasma 6.6 desktop release. Plasma 6.6 is still seeing bug fixes in this final stretch of development while KDE developers are also busy already on Plasma 6.7 feature work...

Wine 11.2 Released With More Improvements & 32 Bug Fixes

Phoronix - 15 hours 54 min ago
Wine 11.2 is out as the latest bi-weekly development release in the road toward the Wine 12.0 stable release next January...

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