Serpent OS Hopes To Ship Pre-Alpha ISOs In The Coming Weeks

Ikey Doherty's Serpent OS Linux distribution project is hoping to be able to ship their pre-Alpha ISOs in a matter of weeks as they continue bringing up the initial desktop experience and getting more of their operating system's build tools into good shape...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Serpent-OS-Pre-Alpha-Soon

Fedora 42 Change Proposal Wants To Make KDE Plasma The Default Over GNOME

A change proposal filed for fedora 42 seeks to make KDE Plasma the default desktop of Fedora Workstation while GNOME would move to its own separate spin/edition. The proposal has yet to be voted on by the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) but given Red Hat's deep roots with GNOME, I have a hard time seeing this pass at least in the near-term...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-Change-KDE-Default-Prop

PCIe 7.0 Specification v0.5 Published - Full Spec Next Year

The PCI-SIG announced today that they have published their newest revision "version 0.5" of the forthcoming PCI Express 7.0 specification...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/PCIe-7.0-Version-0.5-Spec

GCC 14 Boasts Nice ASCII Art For Visualizing Buffer Overflows

David Malcolm of Red Hat's compiler team is out with his annual blog post summarizing the static analysis improvements to find with the upcoming GCC 14 stable compiler release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-14-fanalyzer-Enhancements

NovaCustom Announces "Fastest Coreboot Laptops In The World" Built On Intel Core Ultra

The Netherlands-based PC vendor NovaCustom that specializes in privacy/security minded hardware and user freedoms has announced their V54 and V56 laptops. These new laptops powered by Intel Core Ultra "Meteor Lake" SoCs are self-proclaimed as the fastest Coreboot laptops in the world...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NovaCustom-V54-V56-Laptops

Google's Jpegli Offers ~35% Compression Improvement For High Quality JPEGs

The Google Open-Source Blog today announced Jpegli, a JPEG coding library for encode/decode that maintains backwards compatibility with JPEG while offering around a 35% compression ratio improvement for high quality JPEG compression...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Google-Jpegli-Library

Qt Creator 13 Released For Enhancing Qt/C++ Development

Following the release of the Qt 6.7 toolkit earlier this week, released today is the Qt Creator 13 integrated development environment. Qt Creator is the Qt/C++ tailored IDE aimed to help accelerate developer productivity with tight Qt integration and supporting a variety of features...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-Creator-13-IDE

AMD Working To Release MES Documentation & Source Code

Following up on their tweet earlier this week that they would be working to open-source more of their GPU software stack and hardware documentation, AMD now says they will be releasing documentation followed by the source code for their Micro-Engine Scheduler (MES) IP block found within Radeon GPUs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-MES-Docs-And-Source-Code

OpenBSD 7.5 Released - Faster Performance For Many-Core ARM Servers

Theo de Raadt has released OpenBSD 7.5 as the newest version of this security-focused BSD operating system. With OpenBSD 7.5 there is a number of improvements for ARM (AArch64) hardware, never-ending kernel optimizations and other tuning work, countless package updates, and other adjustments to this popular BSD platform...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenBSD-7.5-Released

FFmpeg 7.0 Released With Native VVC Decoding & Multi-Threaded CLI

The very exciting FFmpeg 7.0 multimedia library has been released! FFmpeg 7.0 rolls out most notably the new native VVC decoder that is currently experimental for supporting Versatile Video Coding as well as introducing the multi-threaded FFmpeg CLI tool...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/FFmpeg-7.0-Released

OpenBLAS 0.3.27 Adds C-SKY Arch, Improved GEMM For AMD Zen & Sapphire Rapids Fixes

OpenBLAS 0.3.27 is out as the newest version of this prominent open-source Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms (BLAS) library...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenBLAS-0.3.27-Released

OpenZFS Merges Support For Using Multiple Task Queues To Increase Performance

The OpenZFS file-system has merged support for using multiple task queues (TaskQs) to enhance performance for multi-core systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenZFS-Lands-Multi-Taskqs

New EEVDF Linux Scheduler Patches Make It Functionally "Complete"

Veteran Linux kernel developer Peter Zijlstra is working to wrap-up feature work around the EEVDF kernel scheduler code...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Completing-EEVDF-Sched

KDE Plasma 6 Can Now Sync Your RGB-Backlit Keyboard With Your Desktop's Accent Color

KDE developers have had another busy week working on fixes for Plasma 6.0 while simultaneously preparing new features for Plasma 6.1...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-Plasma-6-RGB-Backlit-Accent

GNOME Improving Integration With systemd-homed, Mockups For An OS Installer

In addition to KDE's busy week of development work, GNOME developers have also been busy working on features like improving the systemd-homed integration and beginning to work on mock-ups for an OS installer...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Better-Homed