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Fedora Copr Repository Offers XLibre Packages For Alternative X Server

Phoronix - Sun, 08/17/2025 - 08:30
While a proposal to replace the upstream X.Org Server with the XLibre fork was ultimately withdrawn prior to voting by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo), a Fedora Copr repository has now surfaced for those wanting to try out this alternative X Server implementation on Fedora Linux...

Linux 6.16.1 Fixes A Large Intel GPU Driver Performance Regression - Up To 30%

Phoronix - Sat, 08/16/2025 - 20:53
Released on Friday were the Linux 6.16.1 and Linux 6.15.10 stable kernel point releases. Notable there is an Intel i915 kernel graphics driver performance regression fix with some users having reported as much as a 30% performance hit on prior Linux kernel versions...

GNOME Disks Continues Being Ported To Rust

Phoronix - Sat, 08/16/2025 - 18:45
In addition to yesterday's GNOME 49 beta release marking the 28th birthday of GNOME, a lot of other exciting GNOME developments materialized this week...

Wine-Staging 10.13 Adds Patch For 13 Year Old Bug

Phoronix - Sat, 08/16/2025 - 18:21
Building off yesterday's Wine 10.13 release following the month-long summer release hiatus, Wine-Staging 10.13 is out today with some 300 patches atop the upstream codebase...

KDE Breeze Drops Colorful Third-Party App Icons, Plasma Adds Plug-In Device Notification

Phoronix - Sat, 08/16/2025 - 18:05
KDE Plasma developers this week focused a lot on improving performance, fixing bugs, and enhancing the user interface. KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly report to highlight all of these interesting Plasma changes for the week...

GNOME 49 Beta Ships Many Last Minute Features - Including Greater systemd Reliance

Phoronix - Sat, 08/16/2025 - 06:07
The GNOME 49 beta release is out this Friday evening as the next stepping stone on the path to GNOME 49 in September. Making the GNOME 49 Beta release even more notable is that it's the 28th birthday of GNOME...

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