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Kiwi Menu Continues Bringing macOS Vibes To GNOME

Phoronix - 3 hours 40 min ago
Kiwi Menu as the macOS-inspired quick menu option for the GNOME Shell desktop is continuing to enhance its macOS-esque experience on GNOME...

GNU C Library 2.44 Released With /etc/tunables.conf, More Optimizations

Phoronix - 4 hours 16 sec ago
GNU developers today released GNU C Library "glibc" 2.44 as the newest feature release for this critical library to modern Linux systems and other platforms...

KDE Plasma 6.8 Introducing New kscreenctl Tool

Phoronix - 4 hours 10 min ago
KDE developers have been working on kscreenctl as a utility replacement to kscreen-doctor. Plasma and related code has also seen a number of bug/crash fixes coming about this week too...

Wine 11.14 Brings WoW64 Mode To FreeBSD, Icon Support In Start Menu

Phoronix - 14 hours 28 min ago
Wine 11.14 was tagged today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...

Debian Considering General Resolution Over LLM Usage In The Project

Phoronix - 17 hours 32 min ago
Debian developers are discussing a general resolution whether to permit AI large language model (LLM) usage within the Debian software project...

AMD ROCm Committed To Six Week Release Cycle Moving Forward

Phoronix - 17 hours 39 min ago
One of many interesting takeaways from this week's AMD Advancing AI event in San Francisco was word that ROCm will be on a rigid six week release cycle moving forward...

Qualcomm QCE Driver On The Chopping Block With ~48x Slower Than Armv8 Crypto Extensions

Phoronix - 19 hours 54 min ago
A few days back I wrote about upstream Linux kernel developers marking the Qualcomm crypto accelerator driver as "broken" and "harmful" due to its slow performance, history of bugs, and other limitations. Now this Qualcomm Crypto Engine "QCE" driver might be removed outright from the Linux kernel source tree after discovering it's even worse than anticipated...

Imagination PowerVR Driver Marking BXM-4-64 MC1 GPU As Supported In Linux 7.3

Phoronix - 21 hours 36 min ago
Sent out today was the weekly round of drm-misc-next patches of new Direct Rendering Manager feature material ready to be queued in DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window...

Ubuntu Linux Looking To Get Rid Of /etc/debian_version Historical Artifact

Phoronix - Fri, 07/24/2026 - 22:20
Ubuntu Linux has shipped /etc/debian_version that is carried over from upstream Debian and in turn just indicating the Debian Sid development version from which the packages are arrived. Besides it being inaccurate, /etc/os-release has been the long preferred standard for reading the OS release information. Thus finally Ubuntu developers are looking at dropping the /etc/debian_version file...

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