Published a 5-year plan to guide GNOME towards a more sustainable future
Three main goals:
The explosive growth of the community (unify the community, make GNOME relevant and attractive to diverse people, and increase commercial value)
Create a unified and integrated suite of programs, services, and processes (integrated technology, reorganized events)
Strengthen the GNOME Foundation as a non-profit (document impact, double budget, prioritize health and well-being)
A CPU made by Qualcomm, built on the ARM platform
Contributes to the Linux kernel
Benchmarks show it beats Apple M3 in Gigbench 6 and Intel Core Ultra 7155h
It runs hotter than the Apple M3, but wins in battery life tests
Qualcomm Elite Chip
Announced Windows Recall, a feature that takes screenshots every few seconds to learn from user behavior
This raises privacy concerns, as screenshots may display private information
The feature will be on by default, with unclear encryption and access controls
This feature can use up to 25Gb of memory in your system to save the screenshot.
KDE Plasma 6.1 beta released, with fixes for theming on other desktops (e.g., GNOME)
Triple buffering in KWin for smoother rendering and animations
Explicit sync support for Wayland and Nvidia
Dolphin file manager improvements (generate previews for remote locations, become administrator, session restore)
Mozilla Firefox published a roadmap for features to be implemented in the next year
Features include tab grouping, virtual vertical tabs, streamlined menus, and AI-powered accessibility features
Focus on speed, performance, and compatibility
Netris: a self-hostable, open-source cloud gaming platform using Steam. You can either use their server to host or you can host in your homelab but you need to have the NvidiaGPU for that to work.
Nvidia released beta drivers version 555.42.02, with support for explicit sync on Wayland and other features
