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