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Fedora Working To Establish Conflict of Interest Policy

Phoronix - 3 hours 37 min ago
Posted this week is a draft copy of the Fedora Conflict of Interest policy being worked on for dealing with identifying, disclosing, and managing any actual, actual, or perceived conflicts of interest within the Fedora Project...

Kiwi Menu Continues Bringing macOS Vibes To GNOME

Phoronix - Sat, 07/25/2026 - 19:00
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 - Sat, 07/25/2026 - 18:39
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 - Sat, 07/25/2026 - 18:29
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 - Sat, 07/25/2026 - 08:11
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 - Sat, 07/25/2026 - 05:07
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 - Sat, 07/25/2026 - 05:00
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 - Sat, 07/25/2026 - 02:45
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 - Sat, 07/25/2026 - 01:04
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...

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