Among the mainstream Linux distros, Linux Mint has been an outlier, spending many years easing Cinnamon and its users, into Wayland one careful step at a time while other distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora made it the default experience. Now, that patience is paying off, as the project’s June update reveals that Wayland will no…
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AMD on Thursday sent out another round of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver updates to DRM-Next of new feature material ahead of the Linux 7.3 merge window. One of the changes standing put this week is enabling graphics “pipe1” support for GFX11 APUs. This work is around enabling a second graphics…
DankMaterialShell 1.5, codenamed “The Wolverine,” is now available as a major update to this Wayland shell suite designed to give compositors such as Hyprland, Niri, Sway, Labwc, MangoWM, and Miracle WM a more complete desktop environment experience. If you haven’t heard of it yet, DMS tries to replace the usual pile of separate tools many…
DistroWatch.com: MIRACLE LINUX Last Update: 2026-07-10 10:16 UTC MIRACLE LINUX is a Japanese Linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise Linux. The distribution is free to use, with a 10-year support, but users can opt for a paid support provided by a company called Cybertrust, Inc. MIRACLE LINUX started as a high performance back-end server…
Open-hardware manufacturer Pine64 has launched a $50 smart speaker that runs open-source software on a RISC-V chip. PineVoice (previously known as PineVox) is built around a Bouffalo Lab BL606P RISC-V SoC with integrated Wi-Fi, Bluetooth 5.0 and Zigbee radio interfaces. It’s equipped with dual microphone array and speaker with support for ‘local wake word detection’,…
Among the mainstream Linux distros, Linux Mint has been an outlier, spending many years easing Cinnamon and its users, into Wayland one careful step at a time while other distributions like Ubuntu and Fedora made it the default experience. Now, that patience is paying off, as the project’s June update reveals that Wayland will no…
12 Liam’s Desktop UX Brief: KDE Plasma 6.8 is dropping Desktop OpenGL from KWin in favor of OpenGL ES. This guide shows you exactly how to check your current rendering backend, switch it if needed, and understand what this change means for your Linux desktop. I have been running KDE Plasma for years, and this…
While developer Pocketpair are still fighting off Nintendo, they’ve pushed out a huge upgrade for Palworld to bring it out of Early Access for the 1.0. There’s plenty of new Pals to catch as well – 72 were added with this update (47 new Pals and 25 variant Pals) bringing the total to 287. There’s…
Most Bash scripts call sed, awk, or cut for jobs the shell can do by itself. Stripping an extension from a filename, providing a default when a variable is empty, or replacing part of a string are all built into the ${…} syntax, run in the current process, and cost no fork to an external…
