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Jonas Ådahl released Wayland-Protocols 1.37 as the newest update to this defined set of Wayland protocols. With the new release there are three new protocols added plus various other maintenance items addressed within the Wayland-Protocols repository...

Plasma 6.2 this week entered its soft feature freeze ahead of the Plasma 6.2 stable release in October. The focus now is on bug-fixing for Plasma 6.2 and at the moment they are at 301 bug reports, which is their lowest amount going back to 2015. The KDE developers hope over the next month to drop that to less than 200 bug reports...

Using RISC-V cores on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 board and RP2350 MCU - From blinking an LED to building Linux  CNX Software

Using RISC-V cores on the Raspberry Pi Pico 2 board and RP2350 MCU – From blinking an LED to building Linux  CNX Software

I am a complete acolyte of the Great...Richard Stallman !!! - Linux - Thailand News, Travel & Forum  ASEAN NOW

AI+OS, Famous Linux Distribution deepin 23 Officially Released  openPR

The Ultimate Fire Island Survival Guide (According to Linux)  Papermag

How LinkedIn migrated from Red Hat to Azure Linux  Techzine Europe

Following the pull request from earlier this week that enables Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake and Battlemage graphics by default for Linux 6.12, a final set of feature updates for the Intel kernel graphics driver have been submitted ahead of this next kernel cycle...

Intel Battlemage Battles More Linux 6.12 Kernel Graphics Driver Changes  Phoronix

Intel To Push Out Xe2 Graphics Enablement At Linux By Default In Upcoming 6.12 Kernel  Wccftech

Following last week's Vulkan 1.3.294 with pipeline binary extension, Vulkan 1.3.295 is out today and it too introduces a prominent new extension...

Linux Kernel 6.12 sees optional QR code during kernel panics  Tom's Hardware

Microsoft engineers continue contributing to the open-source Mesa graphics driver code for benefiting Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) usage and other related use atop Windows 11. The latest contribution to Mesa is wiring up direct DPB management for the D3D12 video acceleration code...

While all of the focus recently when it comes to Intel's open-source Linux graphics driver has been around getting Lunar Lake and Battlemage graphics ready, there is an important last-minute fix that is also needed for ensuring Arrow Lake graphics support is ready for Linux users...

Important Linux Patch Arriving For Intel Arrow Lake Graphics  Phoronix

Longtime Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem maintainer David Airlie of Red Hat has written an interesting blog post providing an analogy to types of developers compared to road builders and hotels...

Rust Linux Developers Compared To Road Builders & Mapmakers  Phoronix

Bazzite Linux gets keyboard-less installation (good for handhelds) and smaller updates  GamingOnLinux

The Wine project has released VKD3D 1.13 as the newest version of this open-source code for mapping Microsoft's Direct3D 12 API atop the Vulkan API for helping to accelerate Windows games and applications on Linux...