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Niri 25.05 Brings New Features To This Innovative Wayland Compositor

Phoronix - Sat, 05/17/2025 - 23:10
Niri 25.05 is out today as the newest major step forward for this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor that has developed a devoted following...

KDE Plasma 6.4 Introducing An HDR Calibration Wizard

Phoronix - Sat, 05/17/2025 - 22:57
Nate Graham is out with his weekly development summary to highlight all of the interesting Plasma happenings for the past week...

Debian Installer Trixie RC 1 Adds Rescue Support On Btrfs, Upgraded Linux 6.12 Kernel

Phoronix - Sat, 05/17/2025 - 22:37
Released today is the RC1 version of Debian Installer for Debian 13 "Trixie"...

High Reliability - Hackaday

Google News - Sat, 05/17/2025 - 22:03
High Reliability  Hackaday

NVIDIA Upstreams Newer GSP Firmware For Open-Source Nouveau Driver

Phoronix - Sat, 05/17/2025 - 17:00
NVIDIA has supplied updated GPU System Processor (GSP) firmware derived from their R570 driver series to the upstream linux-firmware.git repository...

FreeBSD 14.3 Beta 3 Brings KDE Plasma 6 Packages To The DVD ISOs

Phoronix - Sat, 05/17/2025 - 15:00
FreeBSD 14.3 Beta 3 is ready for testing as the newest test release on the road to the FreeBSD 14.3 point release due out in June...

Rockchip Open-Source NPU Driver "RKNN" Continues Making Progress

Phoronix - Sat, 05/17/2025 - 13:00
Started just over one year ago was the effort to create an open-source Rockchip NPU driver. While not yet mainlined to the Linux kernel, progress on this kernel driver and associated user-space driver continues...

Intel ISPC 1.27 Released With AVX10.2 Support

Phoronix - Sat, 05/17/2025 - 12:00
Intel's Implicit SPMD Program Compiler (ISPC) is out with a new feature release in preparing for AVX10.2-enabled processors and bringing other enhancements to this C programming language variant focused on single program, multiple data (SPMD) programming...

Wine 10.8 Released With Performance Improvement

Phoronix - Sat, 05/17/2025 - 09:38
Wine 10.8 is out today as the newest bi-weekly test release for this open-source solution to enjoy Windows games and apps on Linux. Wine is what also forms the basis of Valve's Proton for Steam Play for a great gaming experience on Linux...

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