GIMP 2.10.38 Released As What Might Be The Last Of GIMP 2

GIMP 2.10.38 was released on Sunday as what might be the "possibly last" GIMP 2 stable release ahead of the upcoming GIMP 3.0 release. GIMP 2.10.38 back-ports more features from the GIMP 3.0 / GTK3 codebase plus other improvements and fixes...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GIMP-2.10.38-Released

Framework Laptop EC Driver Being Prepared For Linux

The modular/upgradeable Framework Laptops employ an open-source embedded controller (EC) firmware derived from Google's Chrome OS EC project. This is great for open-source fans and allows re-using much of the same Chrome OS EC software support that already exists. But there is also vendor-specific commands supported by the Framework Laptop EC and thus a dedicated Linux kernel driver is …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Framework-Laptop-EC-Driver

AlmaLinux 9.4 Released With Support For Hardware Deprecated By RHEL

Following last week's release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 9.4 stable, the AlmaLinux crew today announced AlmaLinux 9.4...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AlmaLinux-9.4-Released

Fedora 41 Approved To Make Package Builds More Reproducible

In addition to approving -O3 optimized Python builds, the Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESC)) this week unanimously approved a Fedora 41 change proposal for making RPM package builds more reproducible...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Fedora-41-More-Reproducible

Microsoft Contributes Windows On ARM64 "aarch64-w64-mingw32" Support To GCC 15

Microsoft engineers have contributed Windows On ARM64 support to the upstream GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) with the new "aarch64-w64-mingw32" target...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GCC-aarch64-w64-mingw32

SteamOS 3.6 Preview Released With Linux 6.5, Updated Arch Linux & Mesa 24.1

Valve tonight released a SteamOS 3.6 Preview as the latest version of their Arch Linux derived operating system that powers the Steam Deck and can be installed on other devices as well...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SteamOS-3.6-Preview

Linux 6.10 Adding TPM Bus Encryption & Integrity Protection

Linux 6.10 is introducing support for Trusted Platform Module (TPM2) encryption and integrity protections to prevent active/passive interposers from compromising them. This follows a recent security demonstration of TPM key recovery from Microsoft Windows BitLocker being demonstrated. TPM sniffing attacks have also been demonstrated against Linux systems too, thus the addit…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-610-TPM-Encrypt-Integrity

NVIDIA's Open GPU Linux Kernel Driver Will Soon Be The Default For Turing & Newer GPUs

While we are all waiting for the NVIDIA R555 series Linux driver beta that is expected to debut as soon as next week based on prior information with Wayland improvements (explicit sync) and more, with the NVIDIA R560 series Linux driver successor is a very interesting change: NVIDIA is planning on defaulting to using their open-source GPU kernel driver b…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/NVIDIA-R560-Open-Default

Wasmer 4.3 Released: WebAssembly Runtime 25% Faster On Cold Startups

Wasmer 4.3 is out as the newest version of this WebAssembly (WASM) runtime that supports WASIX, WASI, and EmScript execution. This cross-platform WASM runtime continues to be focused on driving lightweight containers that can run anywhere in a very secure manner...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wasmer-4.3-Released