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New GNOME Executive Director Named: Steven Deobald

Phoronix - Thu, 05/08/2025 - 02:12
Last July it was announced Holly Million was stepping down as the GNOME Foundation's Exeuctive Director after less than a year at the helm. Richard Littauer took over as interim Executive Director while this week a new GNOME Foundation Executive Director was hired...

Mesa 25.1 Released With Many Open-Source Vulkan Driver Improvements

Phoronix - Thu, 05/08/2025 - 01:23
Mesa 25.1 is out today as the new quarterly feature release for this set of open-source user-space graphics drivers primarily consisting of OpenGL and Vulkan driver support on Linux systems...

Fwupd 2.0.9 Released With Firmware Updating Support For Intel Arc Battlemage

Phoronix - Thu, 05/08/2025 - 00:35
Following his recent PremDay talk on LVFS/Fwupd, Richard Hughes of Red Hat today released Fwupd 2.0.9 as the newest feature release for this open-source firmware updating utility for Linux systems...

Raspberry Pi OS Updated With More Wayland Work, Likely The Last Based On Debian 12

Phoronix - Wed, 05/07/2025 - 21:48
Raspberry Pi today announced the latest update to their Raspberry Pi OS, which continues to be based on Debian Linux and likely their last major release before migrating from a Debian 12 base to Debian 13 later in the year...

AMD Strix Point & Intel Lunar Lake: Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu 25.04 Linux Performance

Phoronix - Wed, 05/07/2025 - 20:45
Last month was a fresh look at the Intel Lunar Lake graphics performance between Windows and Linux while this article is Microsoft Windows 11 Pro vs. Ubuntu 25.04 again but looking at the CPU performance between these competing operating systems. For additional reference, some of the recently completed AMD Strix Point Windows vs. Linux benchmarks were also included for additional insight.

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