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KDE Plasma Remains Committed To A Wayland Future: 70%+ Already On Wayland

Phoronix - Sun, 06/22/2025 - 03:24
Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham put out a blog post today reaffirming the KDE Plasma's intent that Wayland is their main focus and X11 support continues to be maintained but eventually it will go away. Nate Graham also noted around 73% of KDE Plasma 6 users are already using the Wayland session...

Ubuntu 25.10 Planning To Raise RISC-V Support Baseline To RVA23 Profile

Phoronix - Sat, 06/21/2025 - 18:55
Ahead of the all-important Ubuntu 26.04 LTS cycle, Canonical is looking to raise the required RISC-V ISA baseline for its Ubuntu 25.10 release due out later this year...

GNOME Fixes Years-Old Bug Of Trash Not Always Being Properly Emptied

Phoronix - Sat, 06/21/2025 - 18:31
This Week in GNOME is out with its latest issue that outlines some UI progress made as well as addressing an aging GNOME bug that could result in not all files/directories being properly removed when emptying the Trash from the GNOME desktop...

XLibre 25.0 Released As Inaugural Version Of X.Org Server Fork

Phoronix - Sat, 06/21/2025 - 18:18
XLibre 25.0 was just released as the first tagged release of this recent X.Org Server fork...

KDE Plasma 6.4 Is Looking To Be In Good Shape, Fewer Bugs

Phoronix - Sat, 06/21/2025 - 18:04
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly blog post summarizing all of the interesting KDE Plasma developments for the past week. Notable this week was the debut of Plasma 6.4 stable and from early user feedback appears to be in good shape...

AMD Instinct MI350X Series Microcode Upstreamed - Other AMD GPUs See Updates Too

Phoronix - Sat, 06/21/2025 - 04:00
A number of AMD firmware/microcode updates were upstreamed today to the linux-firmware.git repository, including introducing the AMD Instinct MI350 series files that are necessary for the open-source Linux compute driver stack to function for those newly-announced Instinct accelerators...

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