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Linux 6.7-rc7 Released Early Ahead Of Christmas Eve Festivities

Phoronix - Sun, 12/24/2023 - 08:47
New upstream Linux kernel releases are typically issued on Sunday evenings (US time) but Linus Torvalds has released Linux 6.7-rc7 a day early in preparations for Christmas Eve festivities...

Enlightenment 0.26 Released With Various Improvements

Phoronix - Sun, 12/24/2023 - 04:33
It's been two years since the release of Enlightenment 0.25 and now just ahead of Christmas there is Enlightenment 0.26 released by Carsten Haitzler...

LLVM Moves To A Versioning Scheme Like GCC - N.1 Version For Stable Branch

Phoronix - Sat, 12/23/2023 - 19:30
Following discussions with upstream developers, LLVM is changing its versioning as part of the branch creation process to better distinguish mainline development builds of LLVM against those from stable (or soon to be stable) release branches...

Razer Wolverine V2 Controller Support Coming With Linux 6.7

Phoronix - Sat, 12/23/2023 - 19:20
With a set of input driver patches set to be merged today for the Linux 6.7-rc6 kernel, the XPad driver is adding support for Razer's Wolverine V2 Xbox controller...

KDE Developers Prepare For Christmas With More Bug Fixes & Qt 6 Porting

Phoronix - Sat, 12/23/2023 - 18:52
This week brought the second beta of KDE Plasma 6.0 along with KDE Gear and KDE Frameworks updates too. The holidays haven't resulted in KDE development slowing down too much with still a number of bug fixes being merged this week and other minor enhancements...

Lab Wayland Compositor 0.7 Released - Ported To wlroots 0.17

Phoronix - Sat, 12/23/2023 - 18:35
Lab Wayland Compositor (labwc) is out with a new version ahead of Christmas for this wlroots-based window-stacking compositor that is inspired by the Openbox window manager...

Autoconf 2.72 Released With C23 Support, New Year 2038 Safety Option

Phoronix - Sat, 12/23/2023 - 13:00
For those still relying on GNU Autoconf for generating configure scripts for building/installing/packaging software rather than more modern alternatives like CMake and Meson, Autoconf 2.72 is out today as a nice holiday treat...

Wine 9.0-rc3 Released With 35 Fixes In Total, Some Wayland Driver Fixes

Phoronix - Sat, 12/23/2023 - 06:15
The third weekly release candidate of Wine 9.0 is now available for this open-source software that allows running Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms...

Intel Is Hosting An Open-Source Community Survey For Developers

Phoronix - Sat, 12/23/2023 - 02:06
In helping to guide Intel's open-source interests in 2024, the company is hosting an Open-Source Community Survey. Intel is looking for feedback from open-source developers and other community stakeholders about your principal interests and concerns...

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