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Proton 10.0-2 Beta Delivers More Enhancements For Linux Gaming

Proton 10.0-2 beta was released today by Valve and CodeWeavers for furthering this Wine-derived software powering Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux with great success...

2025-07-29 20:06

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Linux 6.17 Staging Continues Cleaning The Realtek RTL8723BS Driver

The staging area of the Linux kernel, where preliminary code initially appears to mature until being promoted out, continues seeing a lot of code churn. With Linux 6.17 the staging updates were submitted and now merged with one driver in particular sta...

2025-07-29 16:19

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Xtraceroute Ported To GTK4 + Vulkan For Demonstrating The Open-Source Potential For AI

Christian Schaller, a Fedora developer and Director of Software Engineering at Red Hat, recently began exploring the potential of AI usage more from the open-source/Linux perspective. He was left impressed from his ability to easily generate a Python a...

2025-07-29 15:05

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xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0.0 Released With Two Years Worth Of Fixes

It had been two years since the last update to the AMDGPU X.Org DDX driver but now xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0.0 is now available for those relying on this driver/hardware-specific driver for X.Org enabled Linux systems rather than the xf86-video-modesettin...

2025-07-29 14:04

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AMD Streaming SDK Updated With Linux Support - But Recommending X.Org Over Wayland

AMD's GPUOpen group today released the AMD Interactive Streaking SDK 1.1 release that now delivers Linux support alongside the existing Microsoft Windows support. The AMD Interactive Streaming SDK is designed to provide pieces for developers to build-o...

2025-07-29 11:29

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Farewell Benchmarks Of Intel's Clear Linux On AMD EPYC Shows More Performance Left To Tap

Last week I ran the last planned benchmarks of Intel CPU performance on Clear Linux vs. Ubuntu with Intel having ceased development of Clear Linux following the restructuring at the company. In today's article is a final look at how the AMD EPYC perfor...

2025-07-29 10:10

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Linux 6.17 Lands New file_getattr & file_setattr System Calls

Along with the better handling of multi-device file-systems such as Btrfs' native RAID capabilities and now allowing more efficient writing of zeroes to modern storage devices, the number of VFS pull requests for Linux 6.17 also added some other extra ...

2025-07-29 08:15

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A 10x Workaround & Less Network Egress Downtime Change Submitted For Linux 6.17

The kernel locking changes submitted today for Linux 6.17 contain a temporary change worth discussion for yielding a 10x speed-up of a particular function call and as part of that yielding less network egress downtime until a better solution is develop...

2025-07-29 06:50

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TUXEDO InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 Laptop Announced - Powered By AMD Strix Point

For those shopping for a Linux friendly laptop powered by AMD Ryzen AI 300 series "Strix Point" with Zen 5 cores and integrated Radeon graphics plus allowing up to 128GB of RAM, the 15.3-inch InfinityBook Pro 15 Gen10 was announced this morning...

2025-07-29 06:15

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Huge Speedups For CRC32C With Modern AVX-512 CPUs Merged To Linux 6.17

The CRC32C cyclic redundancy check code path within the Linux kernel for error detection is much, much faster with the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel when running on modern Intel and AMD AVX-512 processors...

2025-07-29 06:05

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Linux 6.17 Will Allow Writing Zeroes More Efficiently To SSDs

In addition to the VFS changes merrged yesterday for allowing multi-device file-systems to better cope with losing a disk, another notable change as part of the VFS pull requests for Linux 6.17 allows more efficiently zeroing out a range on modern NVMe...

2025-07-29 05:48

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EROFS Metadata Compression Lands Plus A ~2.5x Speedup For Reading Directories

Merged on Monday were the EROFS file-system updates for Linux 6.17. EROFS continues to be a common read-only file-system choice for some mobile/embedded devices as well as container use-cases...

2025-07-29 05:31

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Linux 6.17 Will Let Multi-Device Filesystems Better Cope With Losing A Disk

The VFS changes were merged a short time ago to the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel. Among the notable changes there is a patch that will allow file-systems like Btrfs and Bcachefs to better handle losing a disk in their built-in RAID/multi-device cap...

2025-07-28 20:20

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GNU C Library 2.42 Released With SFrame Support, Newer Intel CPU Detection

Following yesterday's release of GNU Binutils 2.45, the GNU C Library 2.42 released today...

2025-07-28 17:00

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Hyprland Wayland Compositor Launches Subscription Service For "Premium Desktop Experience"

The Hyprland Wayland compositor that is popular with some Linux enthusiasts today formally announced Hyprperks, its new paid subscription service offering a "premium desktop experience" and other benefits...

2025-07-28 16:01

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Linux 6.17 Preps Many Networking Changes From Broadcom 800G To More WiFi 7

Jakub Kicinski on Sunday sent out the big set of networking subsystem updates heading into the Linux 6.17 kernel. From high-end enterprise and data center hardware down to consumer Ethernet and WiFi devices, the Linux networking space continues to be a...

2025-07-28 14:41

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Bcachefs To Remove Its Experimental Label In Linux 6.18 - If It's Still In The Kernel

With the Linux 6.17 merge window now open, Bcachefs file-system lead developer Kent Overstreet has submitted his planned changes for this next kernel version. But we await to see how Linus Torvalds will respond...

2025-07-28 13:10

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Linux 6.16's New "X86_NATIVE_CPU" Option Enhances I/O & Some Graphics/Gaming Workloads

With the newly-released Linux 6.16 kernel there is the new X86_NATIVE_CPU build option if wanting to optimize your kernel build for your local CPU in use. Enabling CONFIG_X86_NATIVE_CPU is setting the "-march=native" compiler optimizations for the kern...

2025-07-28 11:46

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Ubuntu To Keep Up-To-Date With Linux Kernel Versions During Development

Last year Canonical established a policy to always ship the latest Linux kernel version at Ubuntu release time which for the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 will mean shipping with Linux v6.17. But during the Ubuntu development cycles they typically don't aggres...

2025-07-28 10:10

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Runtime PM For The V3D Raspberry Pi Driver Will Finally Lower The GPU Clock When Idle

While the Broadcom V3D driver has been part of the mainline kernel for supporting the graphics found on recent Raspberry Pi boards, currently it doesn't support run-time power management. The lack of runtime PM has meant the GPU clock remains at full-s...

2025-07-28 09:02

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