Notices by Phoronix (phoronix@masto.ai)

Wayback Is Now Hosted On FreeDesktop.org

Wayback began recently as an experimental X11 compatibility layer for non-Wayland desktop environments to leverage Wayland components. While still in early form, the project has already taken off from being a personal GitHub project to now being hosted on FreeDesktop.org alongside other projects such as Wayland and the X.Org Server itself plus other prominent software like Mesa and GStreamer and much…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayback-FreeDesktop.org

GlobalFoundries Acquiring MIPS

Here's an unexpected company match... GlobalFoundries announced today they have entered into a definitive agreement to acquire MIPS. Yes, the company formerly part of Wave Computing and before that Imagination and Silicon Graphics during its long history. MIPS in recent years hasn't been focused on its namesake CPU architecture but rather RISC-V core designs...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/GlobalFoundaries-MIPS

Linux 6.17 To Finish Clearing Out Old Code For OpenMoko Devices

Linux 6.17 is expected to clear out some final remnants of the OpenMoko Neo 1973 and Neo FreeRunner smartphone support from that Linux smartphone effort from two decades ago...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.17-Dropping-OpenMoko-In

Vulkan 1.4.321 Released With A Handful Of New Extensions

The Vulkan working group is celebrating the US Independence Day with graphics API independence in today publishing Vulkan 1.4.321 that comes with several new extensions...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.321-Release

Debian Looks To Attract More Contributors, Eyes Budget For AI/LLM Usage By Debian Developers

The Debian project is hoping to address challenges of mentoring newcomers to contribute to the Debian Linux distribution as well as making it more known that open-source contributors can do more than just work on Debian packaging but that help is needed for documentation writing, web page creation, sorting out licensing issues, finding project sp…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-More-Newcomers-LLMs

Wine-Based Hangover Project Drops QEMU In Favor Of FEX & Box64 For Emulation

Building off Friday's release of Wine 10.11 for running Windows games and applications on Linux is now Hangover 10.11 for this Wine-based software used for running Windows games/applications cross-architecture such as on AArch64/ARM64 systems...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Hangover-10.11-Released

Mozilla Formally Discontinues Its DeepSpeech Project

One of the interesting projects engaged in by Mozilla that directly wasn't related to their web browser efforts was DeepSpeech, an embedded/offline speech-to-text engine. To not much surprise given the lack of activity in recent years, last week they finally and formally discontinued the open-source project...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-DeepSpeech-Discontinued

The Latest X.Org Server Activity Are A Lot Of Code Reverts

The X.Org Server has been seeing a lot of commits this week... to revert bad code...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/X.Org-Server-Lots-Of-Reverts

Wayland Protocols 1.45 Brings Background Effects, Pointer Warp & Session Management

Wayland Protocols 1.45 was released today with new staging and experimental protocols for Wayland compositors to begin rolling out...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Wayland-Protocols-1.45

Sound Open Firmware 2.13 Released With Intel Panther Lake & Wildcat Lake Support

Sound Open Firmware 2.13 debuted today as the newest feature update to this open-source audio DSP stack started by Intel. With Sound Open Firmware 2.13 comes support for new Intel platforms and other enhancements...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Sound-Open-Firmware-2.13

Linux GPIB Drivers Maturing Into Good Shape 50+ Years After The Bus Was Introduced

Notable with the staging area updates for the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel is word that the GPIB driver code may be ready to leave the staging area in the next kernel cycle (Linux v6.17) in then being promoted to the main driver area in signifying the maturity of the code and being cleaned up to meet kernel coding standards. The GPIB drivers are for the Genera…
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.16-Staging

Qt Bridges To Take The UI Toolkit To New Programming Languages: Rust, C#, Java & Swift

The open-source Qt toolkit is deeply rooted in C++ code but over the past decade also has enjoyed Python language bindings. Now thanks to new work by the Qt Group on what they are calling Qt Bridging Technology, the toolkit will be enjoying more robust support across different programming languages...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Qt-Bridges-New-Languages

Rust Coreutils 0.1 Released With Big Performance Gains - Can Match Or Exceed GNU Speed

With Ubuntu 25.10 planning to ship the Rust-based Coreutils "uutils" by default, it's a big year ahead for this alternative to GNU Coreutils. In furthering along the project's goals, today marks the Rust Coreutils v0.1 release...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Rust-Coreutils-0.1-Released

Ubuntu 25.10 Switching To Chrony By Default, Enabling Network Time Security

Ubuntu 25.10 is joining the likes of Red Hat Enterprise Linux and SUSE Linux Enterprise that are using Chrony as their Network Time Protocol (NTP) implementation. Ubuntu 25.10 is switching over to Chrony in enabling Network Time Security (NTS) support on Ubuntu Linux...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-25.10-Chrony

Mozilla Is Shutting Down Pocket

Mozilla announced today it's going to be shutting down its Pocket read-it-later bookmarking service this summer...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mozilla-Pocket-Ending

Debian's APT 3.1 Released With Why/Why-Not Commands, New Solver Default On Ubuntu

Following the release earlier this year of the big APT 3.0 package manager tool release, APT 3.1 was tagged today as another step forward to this key tool on Debian-based Linux distributions...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-APT-3.1-Released

Intel Announces Arc Pro B-Series, "Project Battlematrix" Linux Software Improvements

Intel is using Computex 2025 to showcase their new Arc Pro B-Series graphics cards that will be available in Q3 for professional use-cases as well as focusing on AI inference workstations and edge computing workloads. Plus they are noting some significant improvements coming to their Linux software stack.
https://www.phoronix.com/review/intel-arc-pro-b-series

Oracle Solaris 11.4.81 CBE Released After Three Year Hiatus

Oracle Solaris 11.4.81 CBE is now available as the newest release of this Oracle Solaris "Common Build Environment" version that is essentially a community-supported. non-production version of Solaris intended for free / open-source software developers. Oracle Solaris 11.4.81 CBE comes after not seeing any CBE updates the past three years and now rather unexpectedly seeing this …
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Oracle-Solaris-11.4.81-CBE

Firefox Source Code Now Hosted On GitHub

The Mozilla Firefox source code is now officially available on GitHub as they work to transition from their hg.mozilla.org servers...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Firefox-On-GitHub

Debian Developers Pursuing A General Resolution Around AI Models

The Debian developer community is pursuing a General Resolution for voting on their policy around AI models...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Debian-Free-AI-Models-GR