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      Gaim 3 Is In Development For Restoring The Original Gaim Instant Messaging App In GTK4

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 April 2026

    Gaim! Any desktop Linux users from 20+ years ago likely remember the Gaim instant messaging app that was commonly shipped by desktop Linux distributions for interfacing with different instant messaging platforms like AIM, MSN, ICQ, etc. About twenty years ago Gaim was renamed to Pidgin though due to the AOL Instant Messenger trademark. But with the AIM trademark since expired and wanting to take a differing approach from the latest Pidgin, Gaim 3 is under development...
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      AerynOS 2026.03 Brings GNOME 50, Other Wayland Compositor Updates

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 April 2026

    AerynOS 2026.03 is now available as the newest release of this from-scratch Linux distribution originally known as Serpent OS. With this month's update comes GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6.3, and various Wayland compositor updates alongside other software improvements...
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      MidnightBSD 4.0.4 Released With Aged & Agectl For Age Verification/Attestation

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March 2026

    MidnightBSD 4.0.4 is out today as the newest update to this desktop-minded BSD operating system. Notable with this update is introducing the Aged daemon and Agectl program for handling age verification and age attestation given the increasing number of US states pursuing laws around age verification at the OS user level...
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      xx-fractional-scale-v2 Aims To Improve Wayland Fractional Scaling

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March 2026

    A merge request for Wayland Protocols was opened today for introducing "xx-fractional-scale-v2" as an experimental protocol to address current shortcomings with current Wayland fractional scaling. There is also a KDE KWin compositor merge request already out for review that implements this xx-fractional-scale-v2 protocol...
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      New Rust-Based BUS1 In-Kernel IPC In Development For The Linux Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March 2026

    After KDBUS failed to make it into the mainline Linux kernel more than one decade ago as an in-kernel version of D-Bus, BUS1 was proposed as a clean sheet design for in-kernel, capability-based inter-process communication (IPC). BUS1 didn't gain enough traction to make it to the mainline kernel and then many of the same developers devised Dbus-Broker as a more performant D-Bus user-space implementation. Well, as a big surprise now, a new version of BUS1 is being worked on for the Linux kernel...
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      A Lot Of Rust Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 7.1, NVIDIA Nova Driver Additions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March 2026

    Sent out yesterday were the DRM Rust feature changes for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 7.1 merge window coming in April. The Rust graphics/display driver code for Linux 7.1 includes more programming language abstractions and other Rust infrastructure work to make graphics drivers written in Rust more capable...
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      Intel Panther Lake & Linux AI/LLM Debates Dominated Q1 For Linux Users

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March 2026

    With Q1 wrapping up, here is a look back at the most popular news and reviews for the quarter that excited Linux readers the most. During this quarter on Phoronix were 881 original news articles thus far and 61 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles...
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      Meta Optimizing /proc/interrupts Reading As It's Too Costly At Scale: 29% Speedup

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March 2026

    One of the latest Linux kernel optimizations being worked on by Meta's large kernel engineering team is making reading of /proc/interrupts less costly. Due to monitoring of their servers frequently reading /proc/interrupts, it's actually become a noticeable cost over time with their massive fleet of systems...
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      Servo 0.0.6 Released With Many Great Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 31 March 2026

    Servo 0.0.6 is out today to round out the month with many great improvements made in recent weeks to this Rust-based browser engine advancing with its servoshell implementation and many prospects around using it for embedded browser use cases...