Fedora 41 and Wayland
- Fedora 41 will ship with Wayland only, no X11 support by default
- X11 support remains in the repository, can still be installed if needed
- Explicit sync support in Gnome and latest NVIDIA drivers should reduce compatibility issues
Gnome Foundation
- Holly Million, executive director of Gnome Foundation, is leaving after 10 months
- Richard Leow becomes interim director
- Holly accomplished a lot in her short tenure, including creating a plan for the future and finding funding avenues
Cosmic
- Only 20 issues to resolve before alpha release
- New features include styling inactive windows, settings page for keyboard shortcuts, ALT tab feature, and display mirroring
- Compositor is now multi-threaded, should perform better with multi-monitor setups and high refresh rates
Gnome 47
- Default font will likely be replaced with Inter, a maintained and open-source font
- Experimenting with font size
- HDR-related improvements, including ability to display HDR and SDR content side by side
- Nautilus will be used as the file chooser
- Global keyboard shortcuts feature is being implemented
- Notification portal spec is being implemented
Lawsuit against GitHub Co-Pilot
- Part of the lawsuit was dismissed, but another part will proceed
- Claim that GitHub Co-Pilot breaches open-source licenses of code it used will go to court
- Could result in AI tools having to follow attribution and licensing rights
Epic Games and Apple
- Epic Games’ App Store was initially rejected by Apple due to similarities with Apple’s store
- Apple eventually approved the store, but told Epic that changes would still be required
- Tim Sweeney, CEO of Epic Games, criticized Apple’s restrictions
Gaming News
- DXVK update (version 2.4) brings support for DirectX 8
- Improvements to memory usage, AMD GPU support, and game-specific fixes
- Bottles app update adds support for latest DXVK version and improves performance
- Valve refines game recording feature in Steam beta, including clip editing and screenshot saving
