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GXVK: 3Dfx Glide API Implemented Atop Vulkan For Modern Usage

29.10.2026

The open-source D7VK project that implements the Direct3D 7 / 6 / 5 / 3 APIs atop the Vulkan API for faster, modern performance is out with a new release. This new D7VK 2.4 release came as a bit of a surprise since it was just last month D7VK announc...

Linux Kernel Developers Considering Removal Of KGDB Debugging Functionality

28.10.2026

Merged to the kernel all the way back in Linux 2.6.26 in 2008 was KGDB for improving the kernel debugging experience. KGDB works in conjunction with the GNU Debugger (GDB) to debug the kernel in a similar fashion to user-space debugging. KGDB require...

System76 Introducing AMD-Powered Linux Small PC

28.10.2026

System76 began teasing today the new Thelio Prime Desktop as an AMD-powered Linux mini PC that will begin shipping in November...

Canonical Reviving Their Immutable Ubuntu Core Desktop

28.10.2026

Canonical engineers back in 2023 outlined plans for Ubuntu Core Desktop as their immutable Linux desktop. They made some good initial progress but since 2024 it went rather silent. Now they are reviving Ubuntu Core Desktop as their immutable desktop ...

CachyOS vs. Fedora 45 vs. Ubuntu 26.10 Performance On AMD Ryzen 9

28.10.2026

With the recently released Ubuntu 26.10 and the nearly-released Fedora Workstation 45, Phoronix readers have begun inquiring about fresh benchmarks looking at how they stack up against the performance-optimized, Arch Linux based CachyOS. Up today are...

NetBSD Adds Alternative Text Editor To vi & xedit For Easing New Users

28.10.2026

NetBSD-current has added a new command line text editor to its base set of packages for helping out new users as an alternative to their vi and xedit editors currently included...

X.Org XCB Co-Creator Praises Wayland's Protocol Design

28.10.2026

Open-source developer Jamey Sharp who is a longtime X.Org developer and co-creator of the X protocol C-language Binding (XCB) finally had the need to write a Wayland client and ended up praising its design...

Provenance Time Proposed As A New Timestamp For Linux

28.10.2026

While the Linux kernel and various file-system drivers already support the notion of the birth time for tracking a file/directory's birth/creation time, a slightly different provenance time "ptime" is now being proposed for the Linux kernel...

Hyprland 0.57 Released With Compiz Inspired Wobbly Windows

28.10.2026

For those that want to reminisce over the days long ago of Compiz and Beryl on the Linux desktop, the Hyprland 0.57 Wayland compositor released today and has added Compiz-inspired wobbly windows support...

VKD3D-Proton 3.1 Released With New Features Ahead Of Big v3.2 Release

28.10.2026

Hans-Kristian Arntzen of Valve's Linux team just tagged the VKD3D-Proton 3.1 release. This version comes with a number of new features and performance optimizations while being the stable point ahead of VKD3D-Proton beginning to see a lot of new feat...

GhostBSD 26.2 Released As FreeBSD 15.1 Powered OS With New Installer

28.10.2026

GhostBSD 26.2 is out as the latest feature release of this FreeBSD-powered desktop operating system...

NTFS3 Hardened In Linux 7.4 Against Corrupted Or Maliciously-Crafted NTFS Volumes

28.10.2026

Paragon Software's Konstantin Komarov sent out the latest NTFS3 driver updates for this in-kernel NTFS read/write driver. With Linux 7.4, the NTFS3 driver is focused on being hardened against corrupted or maliciously-crafted NTFS volumes...

Retiring BSD-Compress Proposed For Linux PPP Network Code

28.10.2026

A patch has been proposed to remove the BSD-Compress support from the Linux kernel for the Linux networking point-to-point protocol (PPP) due to being unmaintained and having fundamental issues with the code that can lead to a fatal error...

Wine Merges Support For MESA_map_buffer_client_pointer To Improve WoW64 32-bit OpenGL

28.10.2026

An initiative led by CodeWeavers this year has come to fruition for improving OpenGL support with WoW64 for bettering Windows 32-bit application/game support while using 64-bit system libraries...

Linux 7.4 Introduces DMA-BUF Support To I/O Path With IO_uring

27.10.2026

Merged today for the ongoing Linux 7.4 merge window is the infrastructure for enabling DMA-BUF support in the kernel's I/O path with the wonderful IO_uring framework...