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It's not only KDE seeing nice improvements ahead of the holidays but GNOME developers were also busy this week preparing new improvements to their open-source desktop stack. There's been some rather exciting changes on the GNOME front as we prepare to cap off the year...

Firaxis reveal Sid Meier's Civilization VII system requirements for Linux  GamingOnLinux

Mesa 24.3.2 released with more graphics driver bug fixes for Linux  GamingOnLinux

While the Christmas holidays are quickly approach, KDE developers remain busy working on new features for the upcoming Plasma 6.3 desktop as well as continuing to land many bug fixes...

Google’s Security Warning For 3 Billion Chrome Users—Update Now  Forbes

Rockchip RK3588 mainline Linux support – Current status and future work for 2025  CNX Software

Building off the ROCm 6.3 release from earlier this month, there's been a Friday night drop of ROCm 6.3.1 with some rather exciting end-of-year improvements...

How to Use Emacs as a Desktop Environment in Linux with EXWM  Make Tech Easier

The third weekly release candidate of Wine 10.0 is now available for testing with another 15 bugs fixed this week...

Direct3D to Vulkan translation layer DXVK v2.5.2 brings fixes for Alpha Protocol, The Sims 2, Borderlands 2 and more  GamingOnLinux

Debian-Based Grml 2024.12 Linux Distro Is Out with Support for 64-Bit ARM CPUs  9to5Linux

openSUSE Unveils YQPkg, a Standalone GUI Package Management Tool  LXer

Linux 6.13-rc4 To Fix A Nasty USB Problem Plaguing The Kernel For A Few Weeks  Phoronix

Merged to Linux Git minutes ago and ahead of the Linux 6.13-rc4 tagging on Sunday were this week's set of USB fixes that are particularly noteworthy. Most significant is fixing a USB regression that had been present in the stack since the Linux 6.13 merge window last month...

Grml 2024.12 ''Adventgrenze'' drops x86 support and welcomes 64-bit ARM CPUs  Notebookcheck.net

If you are looking for some interesting technical content to watch over the holidays or end-of-year downtime, AMD shared today that they have launched their own YouTube channel for developer-related content...

The openSUSE project announced today YQPkg as a new package management tool for openSUSE Linux distributions...

OpenSUSE Announces New "YQPkg" Package Management Tool  Phoronix

Jonas Ådahl of Red Hat just released Wayland Protocols 1.39 as the latest set of updates to this de facto repository for Wayland protocols...

Following the recent Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux benchmarks I wanted to expand the testing to look at how well other Linux distributions as well were performing on this new 24-core Arrow Lake desktop processor. To much surprise Intel's own Clear Linux distribution didn't take the top spot this round but as a surprising upset the Arch Linux based CachyOS distribution outperformed Clear Linux, Ubuntu, Arch Linux, and Fedora Workstation on this flagship Arrow Lake processor.