Building off Friday's release of Wine 8.16 is now Wine-Staging 8.16 for this experimental blend of Wine that offers up nearly 500 additional testing/in-development patches.

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Given the recent discussions stemming from Fedora 40 planning to ship KDE Plasma 6 and drop the KDE Plasma X11 session to focus solely on Wayland for the next-gen KDE desktop, prominent KDE developer Nate Graham has written a lengthy blog post to outline…

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Mastodon running on an Apple IIc at the @mediaarchaeologylab@post.lurk.org!!!

The long-awaited patches for allowing the open-source NVIDIA 'Nouveau' upstream Linux kernel driver to leverage NVIDIA's GPU System Processor 'GSP' firmware for handling GPU re-clocking and other hardware tasks with RTX 20 GPUs and newer have been posted

Hours after posting a large patch series for enabling the Nouveau kernel driver to use NVIDIA's GSP for improving the support for RTX 20/30 series hardware and finally enabling accelerated graphics support on RTX 40 'Ada Lovelace' GPUs, the Red Hat maintainer…

In addition to Fedora 40 planning to ship KDE Plasma 6.0 and without any X11 session support, Fedora stakeholders are also looking at shipping GNOME for the Fedora Workstation 40 release without any X11 session support.

Бен Скеггс (Ben Skeggs) объявил о прекращении участия в разработке проекта Nouveau, развивающего свободный драйвер для GPU NVIDIA, и снятии с себя полномочий мэйнтейнера поставляемого в ядре Linux кода DRM-драйвера (Direct Rendering Manager) Nouveau. В качестве…

Исполнилось 32 года с момента формирования первого выпуска ядра Linux. Ядро 0.01 имело размер 116 Кб в сжатом виде (62 Кб после переупаковки из tar.Z в tar.gz), включало 88 файлов и содержало 10239 строк исходного кода. По мнению Линуса Торвальдса именно…

GNOME 45 is the latest version of GNOME. This release brings many exciting updates and represents countless hours of work from hundreds of contributors throughout the world. See all the details in our release notes: https://release.gnome.org/45/.

To get…

После шести месяцев разработки представлен выпуск десктоп-окружения GNOME 45. Для быстрой оценки возможностей GNOME 45 предложены специализированные Live-сборки на основе openSUSE и установочной образ, подготовленный в рамках инициативы GNOME OS. GNOME 45…

This MR introduces support for basic window management in the Wayland driver. A summary of the commits (but see commit messages for more info):

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Probably the most dramatic app makeover I've been a part of so far 🔥

Kudos to @schmiddionmobile@fosstodon.org and Markus Göllnitz for getting this to such a polished state so quickly!