Zstd 1.5.7 Pushing Compression Performance Even Further
Zstandard 1.5.7 was released a short time ago as the newest update to this widely-used compression algorithm backed by Meta. Zstd 1.5.7 packs more than 500 commits, including new performance optimizations and other enhancements...
Mozilla Announce Leadership Changes, Plans to ‘Diversify’
Mozilla Corporation’s president, Mark Surman, today announced plans to tackle what he says are ‘major headwinds’ facing the company’s ability to grow, make money, and remain relevant. “Mozilla’s impact and survival depend on us simultaneous...
Mesa 25.0 Released with Support for Vulkan 1.4 & OpenGL 4.6
A new version of the Mesa graphics library has been released. Mesa 25.0 features Vulkan 1.4 support, which the team bill as the ‘flashiest addition’ in this new development release as it spans Anv (Intel), Asahi (Apple), Lavapipe (software), NVK (N...
Linux Foundation Newsletter: February 2025
Welcome to the February 2025 edition of the LF Newsletter. We’ve got a lot to cover–an intent to form, a new initiative around cyber readiness legislation, project milestones, and a new survey in the field! We are so glad you’re here. Check out ...
VKD3D 1.15 Released With Better Tessellation Shader Support
VKD3D 1.15 is out today as the newest version of this upstream Wine project for implementing the Microsoft Direct3D 12 APIs atop the Vulkan API for better Windows gaming on Linux and other D3D12 workloads on Linux or macOS when paired with MoltenVK...
RISC-V and Fedora: All Aboard!
2025 is the year of Linux on RISC-V. No, seriously. Sit back down–you can’t get off until the next stop anyways. Fedora is jumping on the RISC-V train as a fifth architecture. While there’s still some work to be done, we’ve hit some major miles...
Servo Begins Reworking Its Embed API So It's Easier To Integrate
One of the most logical paths forward for the Servo web browser engine is making it compelling for embedding within applications as an alternative to the Chromium Embedded Framework (CEF), WebKitGTK, and other browser engines. Servo developers recently...
AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" On Linux?
Yesterday a number of Windows reviews began appearing for the AMD Ryzen AI Max+ PRO 395 "Strix Halo" with the debut of the ASUS ROG Flow Z13 as the first laptop to ship this SoC with 16 cores / 32 threads, 64 MB L3 cache, and 40 graphics cores with the...
