Open-source News

While on Linux the desktop environments, graphics stack, and other application software is steadily adopting Wayland support and focusing less on X11/X.Org support, the state of Wayland support and the open-source graphics driver stack in general is less robust among the BSDs. The NetBSD project published a status report around their ongoing dependence and modifications to their X.Org stack...

There's been a lot of improvements coming about in the GNOME desktop space thanks to the ongoing Sovereign Tech Fund and other initiatives toward GNOME 47...

In addition to all of the contributions Valve graphics engineers have been making to the open-source Radeon "RADV" Vulkan driver, they have also begun investing in improvements to the open-source Mesa NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver too. With pending patches there is now explicit GPU synchronization support working for the NVK driver in conjunction with their Gamescope compositor...

Following yesterday's Wine 9.8 release that fixes a nearly 20 year old bug for installing Microsoft Office 97, Wine-Staging 9.8 is out today as the even more experimental blend of Wine that carries hundreds of extra patches that are going through a testing period toward upstreaming into the main codebase...

KDE developers have been busy the first few days of May with all eyes shifting to the upcoming Plasma 6.1 desktop...

The best Linux laptops of 2024: Expert tested and reviewed  MSN

Systemd Looks to Replace sudo with run0  It's FOSS News

Wine 9.8 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for enjoying Windows games/applications on Linux / Chrome OS, macOS, and other platforms...

RHEL 9.4 is here, but RHEL and CentOS 7 are on the way out  The Register

RHEL stays fresh with 9.4 while CentOS 7 gets a Rocky retirement plan  The Register

Google Summer of Code 2024 (GSoC '24) accepted projects have been announced with the GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) seeing seven student developers engaging this summer with several of them focused on enhancing GCC's Rust front-end...

Men of War II releases May 15th with Linux support  GamingOnLinux

Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 Officially Released, Here’s What’s New  9to5Linux

MP 7,1 Linux on Mac Pro 7,1?  MacRumors

TUXEDO Stellaris 17 Gen6 Linux Laptop Launches with Intel Core i9-14900HX  9to5Linux

TUXEDO Stellaris 17 (Gen6): A high-performance portable Linux workstation  BetaNews

The FreeBSD project has published its Q1'2024 status report to outline various advancements over the past few months...

Neofetch is Dead! Here are 7 Alternatives for Your Linux System  It's FOSS

Valve releases Proton 9.0 for Linux— improves Nvidia graphics and high core count CPU compatibility  Tom's Hardware

Classic RTS Perimeter returns as PERIMETER: Legate Edition with Linux support  GamingOnLinux