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GNOME Gains New Clipboard Manager Option With "Copyous"

Phoronix - Sat, 11/29/2025 - 22:32
For those looking to improve their clipboard management experience on the GNOME desktop, Copyous is a new GNOME Shell extension serving as a new clipboard manager...

Arch Linux Based Endeavour OS Updated After ISO Refresh Hiatus

Phoronix - Sat, 11/29/2025 - 19:52
Endeavour OS is one of the popular desktop Linux distributions built around Arch Linux providing a nice out-of-the-box experience. Since their last ISO refresh back in March there hadn't been much news from the project nor any new ISO releases for this rolling-release distro. But thankfully today they are back in the saddle with a new ISO release, Endeavour OS 2025.11.24 "Ganymede"...

Framework Computer Now Sponsoring LVFS / Fwupd Development

Phoronix - Sat, 11/29/2025 - 19:43
With the Linux Vendor Firmware Service serving more than 135 million downloads for Linux users updating their system and device firmware, LVFS has been working to get more hardware vendors to contribute either engineering resources or directly contributing annual dues as sponsors. Framework Computer is now the first one to have executed an agreement under these new sponsorship efforts...

Intel Hiring Two More Experienced Linux Kernel Engineers

Phoronix - Sat, 11/29/2025 - 19:27
While there have been a number of Intel Linux engineers laid off over roughly the past year, other Linux kernel engineers opting to pursue employment opportunities elsewhere amid the ongoing challenges and restructuring at the company, and shifts in their open-source strategy, there's some good news as we work toward the 2025 holidays. Intel is currently hiring for two more experienced Linux kernel software engineers...

KDE Plasma 6.6's KWin Implements RandR Emulation For Better XWayland Experience

Phoronix - Sat, 11/29/2025 - 18:52
KDE developers have been busy ending out the month of November with a number of new features and fixes queued up for next year's Plasma 6.6 desktop release...

Niri 25.11 Rust-Written Wayland Compositor Adds Alt-Tab Switcher, New Animations

Phoronix - Sat, 11/29/2025 - 18:49
Niri 25.11 is now available as the latest feature release for this Rust-written, scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor...

Wine 10.20 Released With VKD3D 1.18 Upgrade For Direct3D 12

Phoronix - Sat, 11/29/2025 - 05:22
Wine 10.20 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software enabling Windows applications and games to run on Linux. This is also with Wine 11.0 stable quickly approaching...

New Patches Work To Optimize Code Generation For Linux Context Switching

Phoronix - Sat, 11/29/2025 - 03:17
As some additional enticing Linux kernel patches posted this week for review, an updated patch series is working to optimize code generation during context switching...

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