Flathub Has Now Served More Than Two Billion Downloads For Flatpaks

Flathub as the centralized repository for serving Flatpak sandboxed Linux applications crossed the threshold this weekend of serving more than two billion downloads...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Flathub-Two-Billion-Downloads

OpenShot 3.2 Released With Better Performance For This Open-Source Video Editor

OpenShot 3.2 has been released as the latest feature update to this open-source, non-linear video editor that is popular on Linux systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/OpenShot-3.2-Released

Rust-Written OpenCL Driver Now Works On Raspberry Pi GPUs

Mesa's Rusticl driver as a Rust-based OpenCL driver for GPUs backed by Gallium3D support now works with the Broadcom V3D driver. This V3D support is notable as it's most commonly associated with the Raspberry Pi single board computers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rusticl-V3D-OpenCL-Raspberry-Pi

Arch Linux Installer "Archinstall" 2.8.1 Adds Experimental LVM Support

Archinstall 2.8.1 is now available for the newest version of this easy-to-use, command-line driven installer for the Arch Linux operating system...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Archinstall-2.8.1-Released

AMD's AOMP 19.0-2 Compiler Brings Zero-Copy For CPU-GPU Unified Shared Memory

AMD compiler engineers have released AOMP 19.0-2 as the newest version of their downstream LLVM/Clang compiler that carries all of their latest work around OpenMP/AOCC GPU device offloading to Radeon and Instinct hardware. With this updated AOMP compiler is now run-time support for zero-copy with CPU-GPU unified shared memory and various other new features for th…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-AOMP-19.0-2-Compiler

AMD P-State Core Performance Boost To Be Merged For Linux 6.11

Linux 6.11 is shaping up to be an exciting summertime kernel cycle for AMD Ryzen owners. The newest feature now being queued ahead of next month's merge window is Core Performance Boost support within the AMD P-State CPU frequency scaling driver...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/AMD-Core-Perf-Boost-Linux-6.11

Shotcut 24.06 Supports SVT-AV1 Encode & AVIF Images, Many Fixes

A few days ago was the release of the OpenShot 3.2 open-source video editor while Shotcut 24.06 also released this week as another great cross-platform, free software video editing solution...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Shotcut-24.06-Video-Editor

SUSE's "Agama" OS Installer Rolls Out New Web UI, Better Auto Installations

Besides Red Hat / Fedora working on a new web-based UI for their Anaconda OS installer, (open)SUSE developers remain very busy working on their Agama installer with new web-based interface. Agama 9 has now been announced as the latest iteration of SUSE's OS installer work...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/openSUSE-Agama-9-Installer

Servo Web Engine Gets WebGPU Running On OpenGL ES & Other New Features

The Rust-written Servo web layout engine continues progressing for this open-source project now stewarded by the Linux Foundation Europe and seeing code contribution from a range of developers. They have published their June 2024 status update to outline the latest accomplishments for this alternative web engine...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Servo-June-2024-Update

KDE Developers Fix More Bugs For Plasma 6.1, Begin More Feature Work On Plasma 6.2

KDE developers have still been busy addressing early fallout from the Plasma 6.1 desktop that released earlier this month while also beginning more feature activity for Plasma 6.2...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/KDE-This-Week-6.1-Fixes

Niri 0.1.7 Scrollable-Tiling Wayland Compositor Adds Fractional Scaling

Niri 0.1.7 is out today as the latest version of this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. While the version number may not signify it, Niri 0.1.7 is quite a notable feature update...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Niri-0.1.7-Released

GNOME Ends Out June With New Libadwaita Addition, Optional Building Without X11

This Week in GNOME is out with the latest summary to highlight all of the interesting changes this week...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-End-Of-June-2024

Chrome's Coreboot Firmware Adapting For 64-bit Boot, Prepping For Intel Panther Lake

The Open-Source Firmware Foundation is out with an interesting blog post by Google firmware engineer Subrata Banik around adapting the Coreboot-based Chrome AP Firmware for 64-bit booting. The transition to 64-bit booting is happening for the system firmware powering Chromebooks and other Chrome devices and is driven in part for Intel Panther Lake gene…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Chrome-64-bit-Firmware-Adapt