Rust-Written Coreutils 0.0.25 With Improved GNU Compatibility

Out this weekend is a new version of uutils' Coreutils 0.0.25 as the Rust-written drop-in replacement to GNU Coreutils for common utilities found on Linux platforms and other systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-uutils-0.0.25

SysVinit 3.09 Now Allows Building With musl C Library, Passing Boot Messages To Firmware

While most Linux distributions have long since moved on from SysVinit in favor of systemd for init duties, this weekend SysVinit 3.09 was released for any legacy users and holdouts still enjoying the System V-init style experience...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SysVinit-3.09

Inkscape Development Version Switches To Using GTK4

The latest upstream development code for the Inkscape vector graphics program has transitioned to using the GTK4 toolkit...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Inkscape-Switches-To-GTK4

Linux 6.9 Deprecates The EXT2 File-System Driver

While Linux 6.9 brings many great changes and new features / hardware support, on the deprecation side it's deprecating the classic EXT2 file-system driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.9-Deprecates-EXT2

Fedora 40 Beta Released With GNOME 46 & KDE Plasma 6.0 On Wayland Desktops

The beta release of Fedora 40 is now available for testing ahead of the planned official release next month...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-40-Beta-Released

SDL Developers Weigh Reverting Wayland Over X11 For SDL 3.0

With the SDL library that's widely-used by cross-platform games with the current SDL 3.0 development code it prefers Wayland over X11, but a new pull request would temporarily revert that on the basis of the Wayland ecosystem still not being up to par...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL-3.0-Wayland-Possible-Revert

Blender 4.1 Released With Faster Linux CPU Rendering & AMD RDNA3 APU Support

Blender 4.1 is officially out today as the newest version of this wildly popular, open-source and cross-platform 3D modeling software...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Blender-4.1-Released

Fedora 41 Will Try Again To Switch To DNF5 Package Manager

Fedora 39 had hoped to use the DNF5 package manager by default as the next iteration of this package management solution for RPM-based distributions. But DNF5 wasn't ready and then delayed to Fedora 41 -- skipping over the Fedora 40 series due to the RHEL 10 branching from it and not wanting the very new DNF5 to be part of that marge. Now the change proposal has been re-filed for…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-Tries-Again-DNF5

AMD Releases Orochi 2.0 With More CUDA/HIP Functions Implemented For Better Portability

AMD GPUOpen's Orochi project as a remidner is the effort for allowing dynamic runtime switching between the Radeon HIP and NVIDIA CUDA APIs to allow better cross-GPU portability. Today marks the availability of Orochi 2.0 for enhancing this API to target NVIDIA CUDA and AMD HIP hardware...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Orochi-2.0-HIP-CUDA

GitHub Disables The XZ Repository Following Today's Malicious Disclosure

Today's disclosure of XZ upstream release packages containing malicious code to compromise remote SSH access has certainly been an Easter weekend surprise... The situation only looks more bleak over time with how the upstream project was compromised while now the latest twist is GitHub disabling the XZ repository in its entirety...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GitHub-Disables-XZ-Repo

KDE Introduces New Marknote App

KDE developers have announced the first release of Marknote, a new note-taking application for the KDE Plasma desktop...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Marknote-App