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Mesa 25.0 Gets A New Vulkan Layer For Limiting The Amount Of Reported vRAM

A half-year-old merge request from Igalia's Karmjit Mahil has been merged for Mesa 25.0 that is a Vulkan layer allowing for optionally limiting the amount of video memory reported to games/applications...

2025-01-26 06:49

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New Sound Hardware Supported By The Linux 6.14 Kernel

Merged this week for the Linux 6.14 kernel were the various sound/audio driver updates. In addition to core API enhancements for better supporting the MIDI 2.0 specification, there is also support for some new audio hardware...

2025-01-26 06:40

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Linux 6.14 Adds ROCEv2 Support For The Alibaba Cloud

The RDMA subsystem updates have been merged for the Linux 6.14 kernel with a light set of changes overall and the most significant being support for the ROCEv2 protocol within the ERDMA driver...

2025-01-26 06:21

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Shotcut 25.01 Open-Source Video Editor Brings New Features

The Shotcut open-source video editor is out with its first new release of 2025...

2025-01-25 20:49

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Intel Media Driver 2024Q4 Released With Battlemage Video Encode

The Intel Media Driver 2024Q4 release was tagged this Saturday as the quarterly update to Intel's open-source Video Acceleration API (VA-API) driver for Linux systems...

2025-01-25 15:27

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ISD: A New Interactive Way For systemd Management

ISD is a new open-source project aiming to provide a more "Interactive SystemD" for simplifying management of Linux systems with systemd...

2025-01-25 09:28

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Much Faster Suspend & Resume For Some Systems With Linux 6.14

Alongside the power management and thermal driver updates this week for the ongoing Linux 6.14 kernel cycle were also the ACPI updates. The ACPI pull request was worth calling out on its own thanks to a change that will allow for faster suspend and res...

2025-01-25 07:19

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Intel THC, Wacom PCI Device & SteelSeries Arctis 9 Support Land In Linux 6.14

All of the Human Interface Device (HID) subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.14 merge window...

2025-01-25 07:01

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SUSE's New "Agama 11" Installer Preps For SLES 16 Beta / openSUSE Leap 16

The SUSE/openSUSE Agama Installer is a modern web UI driven installer for the SUSE/openSUSE Linux distributions. It's modern, sports a cleaner UI and underlying architecture, and supports more features. The Agama 11 installer update was released this w...

2025-01-25 06:46

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Linux 6.14 Drops EFI's Long Obsolete UGA Protocol

The EFI updates have been merged for the Linux 6.14 kernel. The EFI updates this cycle aren't the most exciting but the kernel has finally bid farewell to the long obsolete UGA graphics protocol support...

2025-01-25 06:35

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KDE Plasma 6.4 Begins Seeing Early Feature Work, Plasma 6.3 Sees More Fixes

This week saw an updated KDE Plasma 6.3 beta release and more bug fixing taking place there while also beginning to see early feature work toward the follow-on Plasma 6.4 desktop...

2025-01-25 06:15

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Uncached Buffered I/O & Some Other Nice Memory Management Optimizations With Linux 6.14

Andrew Morton made for an exciting Friday evening by sending out his "MM" pull request for Linux 6.14 as the large collection of memory management related patches for this next kernel version...

2025-01-24 20:28

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Linux 6.14 Adds Support For Blaize BLZP1600, SpacemiT K1 & Snapdragon 8 Elite SoCs

The four SoC pull requests were sent out today for the ongoing Linux 6.14 merge window. These pull requests are principally about various ARM SoC and platform hardware additions/changes but also an increasing number of RISC-V SoC activity too...

2025-01-24 13:52

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Vulkan 1.4.306 Published With Two More Extensions

Vulkan 1.4.306 was published this morning as the newest routine specification update to this graphics/compute API...

2025-01-24 13:10

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NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Linux GPU Compute Performance Benchmarks

While there have been a lot of GeForce RTX 5090 Windows gaming benchmarks since the review embargo lift yesterday, for those more fascinated by this high-end Blackwell desktop graphics card for its GPU compute potential on Linux, this article is for yo...

2025-01-24 11:36

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Several Linux DRM Drivers Orphaned Due To Developer Health

Several of the upstream Linux Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) drivers have become orphaned due to the unfortunately declining health of their lone driver maintainer...

2025-01-24 10:06

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Linux 6.14 Bringing Better Read Performance For CIFS

The Common Internet File System (CIFS) as an implementation of the SMB protocol for commonly sharing files with Windows systems will enjoy better read performance with the Linux 6.14 kernel...

2025-01-24 08:57

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Linux 6.14 Delivering Better Read Performance For CIFS

The Common Internet File System (CIFS) as an implementation of the SMB protocol for commonly sharing files with Windows systems will enjoy better read performance with the Linux 6.14 kernel...

2025-01-24 08:57

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GNOME Showtime Video Player Won't Be Ready Until GNOME 49

While there are many exciting new features in the GNOME 48 Alpha as well as a new app with Decibels becoming the official audio player, there isn't a new official video player for this desktop release...

2025-01-24 07:05

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NVIDIA Maxwell, Pascal & Volta Support Looks Like It Will Soon Move To A Legacy Driver

Now that NVIDIA is rolling out the "Blackwell" GPU driver support, it looks like the NVIDIA Maxwell, Pascal, and Volta generations will soon be moving to a legacy driver branch...

2025-01-24 06:44

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