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Debian's DebConf25 Kicks Off On France - Video Streams Available
Debian's annual Debian Conference "DebConf" started this morning and runs all week in Brest, France...
2025-07-14 06:17
Linux 6.16-rc6 Released With Transient Scheduler Attacks Mitigations, AMD Zen 2 Fixes
As we approach the stable Linux 6.16 kernel release later this month, Linux 6.16-rc6 is out today as the newest weekly test candidate...
2025-07-13 17:37
CachyOS July 2025 Ships With Mesa Patched For Anti-Lag, Plasma Defaulting To Wayland
The popular Arch Linux based CachyOS operating system is out with its "July 2025" update for providing the latest innovations for this performance-optimized, feature-rich Linux distribution...
2025-07-13 12:33
Linux 6.16 Ready With Fixes For Old AMD Hardware "Which Wasn't Even Supposed To Run Linux"
Ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc6 kernel release due out later today, an x86/urgent pull request was sent out today that includes some fixes for old AMD Zen 2 hardware...
2025-07-13 09:52
AMD NGG Improvements Make It Into Mesa 25.2 Ahead Of Next Week's Code Branching
Last week I wrote about a number of patches coming out of AMD for Next-Gen Geometry "NGG" improvements to the AMD OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for Linux. Some of that code hadn't been merged as of writing but fortunately this week the remainder of the NGG...
2025-07-13 07:19
Linux Patches Updated For The New Fairphone 6 Smartphone
Last month when the Fairphone 6 smartphone was announced, same-day Linux support patches were posted for this modular and repair-friendly smartphone. That Linux support code with the Device Tree (DT) files have been under review and out today is the se...
2025-07-13 07:00
Another Longtime Intel Linux Engineer Leaves The Company
Amid Intel's ongoing financial difficulties and multiple rounds of layoffs some Linux engineers at Intel left last year and there's been at least one prominent departure this week amid the latest round of challenges at the company...
2025-07-13 06:52
Haiku OS Sees Work On Better App HiDPI Scaling, Better Intel WiFI Driver From OpenBSD
The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS had a busy month of June with a number of enhancements made to this OS. Haiku just published their convenient monthly recap that highlights all of the interesting changes made the past mon...
2025-07-13 06:35
GStreamer 1.27.1 Release Brings AMD HIP Plugin & Better Vulkan Video
GStreamer 1.27.1 released this week as the first development version toward the GStreamer 1.28 release coming later in the year. GStreamer 1.27/1.28 is bringing a lot of modern feature enhancements for this widely-used multimedia library...
2025-07-13 06:28
Bcachefs Lands Fixes In Linux 6.16 For Some "High Severity" Regressions
Ahead of tomorrow's Linux 6.16-rc6 kernel release a number of Bcachefs file-system fixes were merged...
2025-07-12 15:21
Wine-Staging 10.2 Release Brings Patch For 11 Year Old Bug
It's been a while since there have been any new patches in the Wine-Staging experimental area to note. More patches though have continued working their way from Wine-Staging to upstream/mainline Wine while this weekend Wine-Staging 10.2 is out at 292 p...
2025-07-12 09:55
Wine-Staging 10.12 Release Brings Patch For 11 Year Old Bug
It's been a while since there have been any new patches in the Wine-Staging experimental area to note. More patches though have continued working their way from Wine-Staging to upstream/mainline Wine while this weekend Wine-Staging 10.12 is out at 292 ...
2025-07-12 09:55
Linux 6.17 Readies EDAC Support For Intel Granite Rapids D, Wildcat Lake, Raptor Lake HX
In addition to Intel preparing Bartlett Lake S EDAC driver support for Linux 6.17, several other recent and upcoming Intel processors are also set to see Error Detection and Correction (EDAC) driver coverage with this next version of the Linux kernel...
2025-07-12 07:13
NVIDIA Publishes RTXNTC 0.7 Beta For Neural Texture Compression
NVIDIA software engineers ended out the week by releasing a new beta of their RTX Neural Texture Compression (NTC) SDK. The RTXNTC software is NVIDIA's interesting solution for compressing material texture sets with very promising results for helping t...
2025-07-12 06:55
GNOME Builder & Digital Wellbeing Code Improved This Week
On top of this week's release of the GNOME 49 Alpha, other application improvements and more came about in the past few days...
2025-07-12 06:43
KDE Preps More Crash KWin Crash Fixes, New Feature Work For Plasma 6.5
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development recap of all interesting things and fixes merged for the week to Plasma...
2025-07-12 06:13
Wine 10.12 Released With Experimental EGL Backend For The X11 Driver
Wine 10.12 has been uncorked as the latest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software running Windows games and applications on Linux and other operating systems...
2025-07-11 20:48
Attack Vector Controls Could Be Ready For Linux 6.17 Introduction
The AMD engineering led work on Attack Vector Controls for the Linux kernel could be mainlined with the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel with the remaining patches now being queued within a TIP branch...
2025-07-11 13:02
AMD Radeon RX 9070 Ray-Tracing Performance Improving With Mesa 25.2
With the feature freeze and code branching for Mesa 25.2 expected to take place next week and kick off the release process for this quarterly Mesa 3D version to debut as stable in August, I've begun running more benchmarks of this latest code on popula...
2025-07-11 09:48
Smarter Cache Flushing For AMD SEV KVM Guest VMs Expected For Linux 6.17
Going back several months have been patches out of Google to optimize AMD cache flushing for KVM-based Linux guest virtual machines when making use of Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV). As anticipated, that AMD SEV cache flushing optimization work ...
2025-07-11 08:46