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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...

Linux 6.17 Features: Great Intel Graphics Improvements, AMD HFI, Attack Vector Controls + Lenovo Gaming Drivers

Phoronix - Sat, 08/16/2025 - 04:15
With the Linux 6.17-rc1 release this past Sunday, the Linux 6.17 merge window is over. Here is a look back at the most exciting changes that made it for Linux 6.17.

Wine 10.13 Released With One Month Worth Of Improvements

Phoronix - Sat, 08/16/2025 - 03:04
One month has passed since the Wine 10.12 release. While typically new Wine development releases are on a bi-weekly release cycle, summer holidays typically interfere for one release per year with the Wine project. Thankfully Wine 10.13 is out today to start the cycle anew...

Patches Posted For Raspberry Pi 5 Ethernet With The Upstream Linux Kernel

Phoronix - Sat, 08/16/2025 - 00:52
While the Raspberry Pi 5 is a great and popular Arm single board computer, some elements of getting the hardware support upstream have lagged behind just as was also the case with prior generations of the Raspberry Pi SBC. One of the enablement bits now inching its way toward the mainline kernel is Ethernet support on the Raspberry Pi 5...

Ubuntu Developing New "Dangerous" Desktop Images Concept

Phoronix - Sat, 08/16/2025 - 00:13
The Ubuntu Release Management Team is pursuing a new concept called "Dangerous" Desktop Images that will ship leading-edge Snaps atop the latest Ubuntu daily development images...

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