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Following up on the discussion from earlier this month among GCC developers over switching to C++20 by default for the GCC compiler as the default C++ standard when not otherwise set, that change has indeed happened. Merged now is the change defaulting to C++20 (well, the GNU++20 dialect) rather than C++17/GNU++17 when not otherwise specified when compiling C++ code...

Valve just fixed several broken games on Linux with a Proton Experimental update  How-To Geek

Intel Battlemage Graphics Enjoyed Nice GPU Compute Performance Gains In 2025  Phoronix

In addition to Intel Arrow Lake desktop performance evolving nicely on Linux over the course of 2025, the Intel Arc B-Series graphics that launched last December with the Arc B580 have evolved quite nicely too with their open-source driver stack. With it coming up on one year since the Arc B580 launch, here is a look at how the GPU compute performance has evolved since that point. Similar Intel Arc B580 Linux graphics comparisons are also coming up in a follow-up comparison on Phoronix.

KDE Plasma 6.8 to Drop X11 Support, Goes All-In on Wayland  It's FOSS

Silicon Synchronicity: How Qualcomm’s Day-Zero Linux Support for Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Rewrites the Rules of Hardware Adoption  WebProNews

KDE Plasma Linux DE Drops X11 Support in 6.8 Release  TechPowerUp

Ubuntu is replacing some legacy tools in 26.04 LTS  How-To Geek

Zlib-ng 2.3.1 is out today as the first stable release in the v2.3 series for this Zlib replacement that carries a variety of performance optimizations for speedier compression/decompression...

How to dual-boot macOS and Linux on Apple Silicon  How-To Geek

THIRDREALITY Unveils Linux Box Dev Edition: Open Smart Home Gateway for Developers and Solution Providers  PRWeb

Rest in Peace Windows? Large YouTube channel tests gaming performance on Linux  gHacks Technology News

Gnome Foundry Is a New ‘IDE in a Box’ for Linux  The New Stack

This search tool will make Windows folks feel at home on Linux  How-To Geek

Oracle updates Linux suite for complete Red Hat synergy  SDxCentral

Google Is Building A New OS  Hackaday

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...

Valve-Backed Color Pipeline API For Linux Is Finally Ready For Upstream  Phoronix

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...