Wine Wayland Driver's Vulkan Support Is Now Usable

The third and final part of the Vulkan enablement code for allowing Vulkan API graphics use within the Wine Wayland driver has been merged to Wine Git...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-Wayland-Vulkan-Usable

OpenZFS 2.2.2 & OpenZFS 2.1.14 Released To Fix Data Corruption Issue

Following a rare but nasty data corruption issue, OpenZFS 2.2.2 and OpenZFS 2.1.14 were released this evening to address the problem...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-2.2.2-Released

Using Miriway For Empowering Xfce / MATE / LXQt & Other Desktops With Wayland

Miriway is an effort for bringing Wayland to desktops not currently having native Wayland support and is made possible via the Canonical-developed Mir. Miriway has been a side-project of Alan Griffiths as the lead Mir developer and today he published a blog post with more details for users interested in making use of it...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Miriway-How-To

KDE Lands NVIDIA Hardware Cursor Support & Other Last Minute Plasma 6.0 Features

With this week's release of the Plasma 6.0 beta and beta milestones for KDE Frameworks 6 and the latest Gear apps, KDE has now entered the bug-fixing phase ahead of the stable releases coming up in February. But prior to that bug-fixing shift, a few more features were merged...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6-Beta-Week

Cloudflare Teases Next-Gen Server Design, Benefits Going From 1U To 2U Servers

Two years ago Cloudflare rolled out their "Gen 11" server fleet built around AMD EPYC Milan processors and on Friday the company began talking about their forthcoming "Gen 12" server designs that will soon be rolling out across their data centers for powering this widely-used web infrastructure...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Cloudflare-Gen12-Server

systemd 255 Released With A "Blue Screen of Death" For Linux Systems

Ahead of the holidays systemd 255 has debuted as stable and comes with systemd-bsod as a "Blue Screen of Death" service capable of displaying full-screen error messages on Linux. There's also a new tool, systemd-vmspawn, that can be used for spawning virtual machines...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/systemd-255

LVFS Has Supplied More Than 100 Million Firmware Updates To Linux Users

The Red Hat engineers responsible for creating the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) are celebrating tonight with LVFS paired with the Fwupd Linux firmware updating utility now having served more than 100 million firmware updates!..
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LVFS-100-Million-Firmware

Raspberry Pi OS Improves Wayfire Rendering, Enhanced Raspberry Pi 5 Support

As a nice update ahead of the holidays, the Raspberry Pi folks have released Raspberry Pi OS 2023-12-05 as the first update to their Debian-based operating system since the official launch of the Raspberry Pi 5 back in October...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rasberry-Pi-OS-2023-12-05

Wine 9.0-rc1 Released With Upgraded VKD3D, Wine Wayland Improvements

The release process has begun for releasing Wine 9.0 as stable early next year...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wine-9.0-rc1-Released

Linux Mint 21.3 Beta Released With Cinnamon 6.0 Desktop

Linux Mint 21.3 beta is now available for testing as this latest Ubuntu-based, desktop-focused Linux distribution...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Mint-21.3-Beta

Linux 6.6.6 Released Due To WiFi Regression

Following a bumpy weekend due to the EXT4 data corruption bug, Linux 6.6.6 is out with just a sole change for dealing with another headache: WiFi regressions...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.6.6-Released

It Looks Like AMD Zen 5 SoCs Will Support ACPI PHAT

A few months ago I wrote about AMD Linux engineers working on ACPI PHAT support for the Linux kernel. This week new patches around Linux ACPI PHAT handling have been posted with further confirmation of this functionality coming to "future" AMD SoCs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-New-SoCs-With-ACPI-PHAT

Canonical Details Ubuntu 24.04 Desktop Plans + Ongoing X11 Sunsetting Discussions

Tim Holmes-Mitra with Canonical has shared some roadmap highlights for the Ubuntu desktop with the in-development Ubuntu 24.04 LTS...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-24.04-LTS-Desktop-Plans

Firefox 121 Now Available With Wayland Enabled By Default

Ahead of tomorrow's official announcement, the Mozilla Firefox 121.0 release binaries have hit the mirrors and it's keeping to the most exciting Christmas gift for Linux desktop users: Wayland support enabled by default!..
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-121-Available

Plymouth Boot Splash Screen Sees First Update In Nearly Two Years

One of the often overlooked pieces of the Linux desktop software stack is Plymouth that for the past 15 years or so has been providing a graphical boot splash screen that succeeded Red Hat's former RHGB software or having no graphical boot splash screen at all on some Linux distributions. This week marked the first new release of Plymouth in nearly two years...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Plymouth-2023-Release

Lab Wayland Compositor 0.7 Released - Ported To wlroots 0.17

Lab Wayland Compositor (labwc) is out with a new version ahead of Christmas for this wlroots-based window-stacking compositor that is inspired by the Openbox window manager...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/labwc-0.7

Ubuntu Touch OTA-3 Focal Brings PinePhone Images, Initial Snap Support

Ubuntu Touch OTA-3 Focal is out today as the UBport's latest release of this Ubuntu mobile adaptation for smartphones and tablets. This is the third release to be based on their Ubuntu 20.04 LTS base, which is quite aging at this point but still better off than their earlier 16.04 LTS foundation...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-Touch-OTA-3-Focal

LuxCoreRender 2.8 Alpha Released With Initial Blender 4.x Integration

LuxCoreRender as the open-source (Apache 2.0) physically based renderer is working on its next major release. While LuxCore can be used standalone both via its own UI and a console, there is Blender integration too with Blender 4.x support being one of the main focal points of the v2.8 series...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/LuxCoreRender-2.8-Alpha-1