Xfce 4.20 Pre2 Released For Testing

Following the Xfce 4.20 Pre1 release from one month ago, Xfce 4.20 Pre2 is ready for testing ahead of the planned desktop release in two weeks...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Xfce-4.20-Pre2

Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger Retires

While Intel has been under much financial difficulties and as they pursue their build out of new fabs to better compete with TSMC, to much surprise Intel CEO Pat Gelsinger has retired effective today...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-CEO-Pat-Gelsinger-Retires

PostgreSQL Finally Deprecates MD5 Passwords

While long overdue, the PostgreSQL database server has finally deprecated MD5 password support with its latest code...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/PostgreSQL-Deprecates-MD5-Pass

SDL Introducing Async I/O APIs - Backed By IO_uring On Linux

Longtime Linux game porter Ryan Gordon has introduced initial asynchronous I/O APIs for the in-development SDL3 library. On Linux these async I/O APIs allow making use of the modern kernel IO_uring functionality...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/SDL3-Async-IO-APIs

Intel Linux Display Driver Being Adapted For DRM Panic "Blue Screen of Death" Support

The DRM Panic infrastructure has been in the Linux kernel for several releases now and allows for a kernel-based experience similar to Windows' "Blue Screen of Death as well as more recently allowing QR code kernel error messages and other features. The Intel kernel DRM driver has seen some patches for enabling DRM Panic support...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Intel-Linux-DRM-Panic-RFC