Linux 7.1-rc4 Released With Many Fixes, New Documentation For Security/AI Topics
05:20 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 7.1-rc4 - 1 Comment
17 May
Ubuntu Concept ISOs Published For CIX P1 AI CPU
12:00 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu + CIX P1 CPU - 5 Comments
Open-Source "low_latency_layer" Brings Reflex & Anti-Lag 2 To AMD & Intel GPUs On Linux
08:00 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - low_latency_layer - 14 Comments
Claude Code Did The Heavy Lifting To Get Adobe Lightroom CC Running On Linux
06:20 AM EDT - WINE - Adobe Lightroom CC - 36 Comments
FFmpeg Introduces Apple ProRes RAW Vulkan-Powered Video Acceleration
06:09 AM EDT - Multimedia - Apple ProRes RAW + Vulkan - 1 Comment
Panther Lake Powered Framework Laptop 13 Pro Sees Linux Microphone Fix
FluidX3D Lands A Big Speed-Up For This OpenCL CFD Software
04:09 AM EDT - Free Software - FluidX3D 3.7 - Add A Comment
FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 3 Updates OpenZFS, Ensures Cloud Images Up-To-Date On First Boot
12:00 AM EDT - BSD - FreeBSD 15.1 - 2 Comments
16 May
GNOME 51 Could End Up Replacing System Tools With "Resources" App
04:09 PM EDT - GNOME - GNOME 51 - 37 Comments
Memtest86+ 8.10 Improves Support For Newer Hardware
02:37 PM EDT - Free Software - memtest86+ - 19 Comments
Debian 13.5 Released To Ship The Latest Linux Security Fixes
12:36 PM EDT - Debian - Debian 13.5 - 12 Comments
Longtime Leading AMD Linux GPU Driver Developer Now Working For Valve
07:03 AM EDT - Valve - Marek - 39 Comments
Plasma 6.7 Improves Its Built-In Remote Desktop Server, Enhances Plasma Notifications
06:13 AM EDT - KDE - Plasma 6.7 - 28 Comments
Steam Controller Mapping Merged To SDL Library
05:59 AM EDT - Valve - Steam Controller 2026 - Add A Comment
15 May
AMD ROCm 7.13 Released With Instinct MI350P Support, More Ryzen AI APUs
09:55 PM EDT - AMD - ROCm 7.13 - 10 Comments
Wine 11.9 Released With Wayland Pointer Warp, Initial Support For System Threads
06:52 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 11.9 - 10 Comments
Linux Kernel Adds Documentation For What Qualifies As A Security Bug, Responsible AI Use
04:30 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux Kernel - 19 Comments
Linux Patch Introduces Panther Lake R: Ruggedized Version Of Panther Lake
02:55 PM EDT - Intel - Panther Lake R - 3 Comments
Linux 7.0.8 Released & LTS Kernels Updated For ssh-keysign-pwn
10:10 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 7.0.8 - 25 Comments
ZimaCube 2 Makes For A Nice Personal Cloud/NAS With Power Of Linux + Intel CPU
09:15 AM EDT - Computers - 9 Comments
Rocky Linux Launches Optional Security Repository To Get Important Fixes Sooner
08:15 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Rocky Linux Security Repo - 5 Comments
Coreboot + AMD openSIL Powered Firmware Published For The Gigabyte MZ33-AR1
07:17 AM EDT - AMD - Open Firmware - 6 Comments
Cloud Hypervisor 52 Now Supports Launching AMD SEV-SNP Confidential VMs With KVM
06:30 AM EDT - Virtualization - Cloud Hypervisor 52 - Add A Comment
Linux 7.1 Supports Newer Logitech Bluetooth Keyboards, Malicious Input Hardware Sanitization
Vulkan 1.4.352 Introduces VK_NV_cooperative_matrix_decode_vector
06:07 AM EDT - Vulkan - NVIDIA Cooperative Matrix Decode Vector - Add A Comment
14 May
Linux's Latest Vulnerability Allows Reading Root-Owned Files By Unprivileged Users
09:35 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - ssh-keysign-pwn - 55 Comments
SDL Library Adds Support For The New Steam Controller Without Depending On Steam
08:46 PM EDT - Valve - SDL + Steam Controller 2026 - 8 Comments
New AMD Dynamic EPP Feature Causing Some Problems With Linux 7.1
Plasma Big Screen Working Out Quite Well With Plasma 6.7 Beta
01:32 PM EDT - KDE - KDE Plasma Big Screen - 40 Comments
MSI Claw Configuration Driver For Linux Coming Together With The Assistance Of AI
12:24 PM EDT - Hardware - MSI Claw - 18 Comments
ROCm 7.0.0 vs. ROCm 7.2.3 Performance On The AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700
10:20 AM EDT - Display Drivers - 4 Comments
AMD Preps More AIE4 NPU Hardware Enablement For AMDXDNA Driver In Linux 7.2
09:47 AM EDT - AMD - drm-misc-next - Add A Comment
Intel's Cache Aware Scheduling Inches Closer To Being Merged For Linux
08:23 AM EDT - Intel - Cache Aware Scheduling - 3 Comments
KDE Plasma 6.7 Beta Released With Plasma Big Screen, Union Modules
07:31 AM EDT - KDE - Plasma 6.7 Beta - 21 Comments
New AMDGPU Driver Pull Request For Linux 7.2 Preps For HDMI 2.1 FRL
06:20 AM EDT - Radeon - Linux 7.2 AMDGPU - 10 Comments
Linux's KVM With CET Virtualization Is Causing Some Hosts To Hang
06:07 AM EDT - Virtualization - Control-flow Enforcement Technology - 3 Comments
13 May
Older AMD GPUs Score Another Open-Source Driver Win From Valve: DRM Format Modifiers
08:49 PM EDT - Radeon - DRM Format Modifiers - 26 Comments
Arm Mali G1 Pro Now Working With Open-Source PanVK & Panfrost Drivers
08:45 PM EDT - Mesa - Arm Mali v14 - Add A Comment
Linux Driver Posted For Intel Silicon Security Engine Interface "ISSEI"
01:03 PM EDT - Intel - Intel Silicon Security Engine - 2 Comments
Fragnesia Made Public As Latest Linux Local Privilege Escalation Vulnerability
11:52 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux Fragnesia - 50 Comments
GCC 16 Produces Faster Binaries Than GCC 15, Competitive Race With LLVM Clang 22
09:45 AM EDT - Software - 29 Comments
Intel Compute Runtime 26.18.38308.1 Brings More Xe3P Enableement, Nova Lake P Support
07:01 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Compute Runtime - Add A Comment
Discord Touts "Year Of The Linux Desktop" With Linux Client Improvements
06:17 AM EDT - Proprietary Software - Discord Linux Client - 41 Comments
NetBSD 11.0-RC4 Comes As Hopefully The Last Release Candidate
06:06 AM EDT - BSD - NetBSD 11.0 - 7 Comments
KDE Receiving Over 1.2 Million EUR Investment From Sovereign Tech Fund
05:41 AM EDT - KDE - Big Investment - 100 Comments
Arm Preparing The Linux Kernel For 128-bit Page Table Entries "FEAT_D128"
05:30 AM EDT - Arm - Arm FEAT_D128 - 5 Comments
12 May
Wine Wayland Driver Merges Pointer Warp Support
08:41 PM EDT - WINE - wp_pointer_warp_v1 - 100 Comments
OpenZFS 2.4.2 Released With Linux 7.0 Kernel Support, Many Bug Fixes
06:28 PM EDT - Linux Storage - OpenZFS 2.4.2 - 59 Comments
FreeBSD 15.2 Will Aim For The Nice KDE Desktop Installation Experience
05:25 PM EDT - BSD - FreeBSD 15.2 + KDE Desktop - 19 Comments
AMD & Intel Roll Out New Linux Updates For Today's Patch Tuesday
01:52 PM EDT - Hardware - Patch Tuesday - 3 Comments
DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.2 Further Improves NVIDIA Integration For Steam Play Linux Gaming
01:16 PM EDT - NVIDIA - DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.2 - 6 Comments
IBM s390 Is The Latest Architecture Seeing Rust Linux Kernel Support
12:55 PM EDT - Hardware - IBM s390 + Linux Kernel Rust - 16 Comments
Running Four Intel Graphics Cards Under Linux On Ubuntu 26.04
10:00 AM EDT - Graphics Cards - 21 Comments
ARCTIC Fan Controller Driver Expected To Land In Linux 7.2
08:27 AM EDT - Hardware - ARCTIC Fan Controller - 7 Comments
Linux Scheduler Work Helping Boost Gaming Performance On Old "Potato" Hardware
06:30 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Flatten The Pick - 40 Comments
Fwupd 2.1.3 Brings Firmware Updating To Modular Smartphones
06:17 AM EDT - LVFS - Fwupd 2.1.3 - 13 Comments
Intel Looking To Move Their Low-Power Mode Daemon Into The Linux Kernel Source Tree
BeOS-Inspired Haiku Finally Sees Initial ARM64 SMP Support
05:51 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Symmetric Multi-Processing - 5 Comments
11 May
Open-Source Radeon Driver For R300 Through R500 GPUs Sees Big Code Cleanup In 2026
08:33 PM EDT - Radeon - NIR NIR NIR - 25 Comments
Vulkan 1.4.351 Brings Six New Extensions, Including A Ray-Tracing Improvement
04:24 PM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan 1.4.351 - 8 Comments
HDMI 2.1 Display Stream Compression "DSC" Also Ready For AMDGPU Linux Driver
01:30 PM EDT - Radeon - HDMI FRL + FRL DSC - 28 Comments
Redesigned Thelio Major Elevates System76's All-AMD, Open-Source Linux Workstation
12:40 PM EDT - Computers - 18 Comments
GNOME's Help Viewer Updated Due To Flatpak Sandbox Escape Vulnerability
10:36 AM EDT - GNOME - Yelp 49.1 - 21 Comments
Intel IGC 2.34.4 Compiler Brings Many Improvements
09:20 AM EDT - Intel - Intel Graphics Compiler 2.34.4 - 2 Comments
F2FS Preparing FSERROR Reporting Support
08:26 AM EDT - Linux Storage - F2FS FSERROR - Add A Comment
Linux 7.2 To Add Support For Switchtec PCIe Gen6 Switches
07:14 AM EDT - Hardware - Microchip Switchtec - 2 Comments
AMD Ryzen AI & Intel NPU Drivers Adding New Power Features With Linux 7.2
06:19 AM EDT - Hardware - AMD + Intel NPU Drivers - 6 Comments
Sculpt OS 26.04 Can Finally Be Used To Self-Host For Developing/Building Genode
06:01 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Sculpt OS 26.04 - 1 Comment
Linux 7.0.6 Released To Finish Mitigating the Dirty Frag Vulnerability
05:51 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 7.0.6 - 3 Comments
10 May
Linux 7.1-rc3 Released With Many Networking Changes
05:45 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 7.1 - 11 Comments
Axboe Hacking On New Linux Patches For 60% Increase To Per-Core I/O Performance
07:13 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Exciting I/O Work - 33 Comments
Debian Release Team: Debian Must Now Ship Reproducible Packages
06:40 AM EDT - Debian - Debian Reproducible Packages - 17 Comments
OpenAI's Coding Agent Helped Create A New AMD Temperature Driver For Linux
06:28 AM EDT - AMD - prom21-xhci - 16 Comments
9 May
Kconfirm Is On A Quest To Clean Up The Linux Kernel's Configuration System
08:29 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - kconfirm - 6 Comments
Microsoft Releases Azure Linux 3.0.20260506 With Many Security Fixes
02:56 PM EDT - Microsoft - Azure Linux 3.0.20260506 - 6 Comments
Nocturne Is The Latest Music Player For GNOME To Hit v1.0
10:24 AM EDT - GNOME - Nocturne 1.0 - 48 Comments
Hyprland 0.55 Released With Lua-Based Configuration, User-Defined Layouts
09:56 AM EDT - Wayland - Hyprland 0.55 - 24 Comments
FEX 2605 Brings Performance Improvements, Initial Snapdragon X2 Elite Fixes
06:58 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - FEX 2605 - 54 Comments
Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 Improves Handling Of Desktop Apps, Other Fixes
06:45 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 - 3 Comments
NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.17 Fixes Support For GB10 Powered Systems
06:19 AM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA VA-API Driver - 5 Comments
Linux Enables Auto Counter Reload "ACR" For Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids
06:12 AM EDT - Intel - Auto Counter Reload - Add A Comment
8 May
KDE Plasma 6.7 To Support ICC Profiles In HDR Mode, Direct Scan-Out Improvement
08:53 PM EDT - KDE - KDE Plasma 6.7 - 17 Comments
FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 2 Brings Updated Zstd, Bug Fixes
08:22 PM EDT - BSD - FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 2 - 2 Comments
HP Z6 G5 A Continues Working Out Well For Linux-Friendly, High-End Workstation
10:35 AM EDT - Computers - 6 Comments
NVIDIA Releases CUDA-Oxide 0.1 For Experimental Rust-To-CUDA Compiler
10:17 AM EDT - NVIDIA - CUDA-Oxide 0.1 - 16 Comments
DM-INLINECRYPT Expected For Linux 7.2 To Leverage Inline Encryption
09:11 AM EDT - Linux Storage - dm-inlinecrypt - 3 Comments
Qt Creator 20 Beta Expands AI Integration
08:02 AM EDT - Qt - Qt Creator 20 - 3 Comments
OpenZL 0.2 Released For Meta's Content-Aware Compression Software
06:26 AM EDT - Free Software - OpenZL 0.2 - 14 Comments
AMD's Local, Open-Source AI Can Now Easily Interact With Your Gmail
06:12 AM EDT - AMD - AMD GAIA + Gmail - 6 Comments
Linux Erroneously Thinks Intel Bartlett Lake CPUs Run At 7GHz
06:01 AM EDT - Intel - Intel P-State Issue - 39 Comments
7 May
Dirty Frag Vulnerability Made Public Early: Root Privilege On All Distributions
08:08 PM EDT - Linux Security - Dirty Frag - 68 Comments
AMD K5 CPUs The Latest To Be Retired With Linux's Aging & Stagnate Hardware Support
05:44 PM EDT - AMD - AMD K5 CPUs - 15 Comments
Linux 7.2 To Support Realtek RTL8159 10GbE USB Ethernet
12:03 PM EDT - Linux Networking - Realtek RTL8159 - 17 Comments
AMD RadeonSI Code Reorganized To Support Multimedia-Only Driver Builds
Flattened Image Tree 1.0 Specification For Embedded Linux Systems
10:26 AM EDT - Standards - Flat Image Tree 1.0 - Add A Comment
AMD Instinct MI350P: PCIe Add-In Card For High Performance Open-Source AI/Compute
09:00 AM EDT - Graphics Cards - 15 Comments
Linux Drivers For The AMD Elan SoCs From The 1990s On Track For Retirement
08:20 AM EDT - AMD - Farewell AMD Elan - Add A Comment
KDE Plasma 6.7 To Provide A Much Better Experience For CPU-Based Rendering
06:29 AM EDT - KDE - Better Shared Memory Buffer Experience - 29 Comments
SR-IOV Support Appears To Be Coming For Next-Gen Ryzen AI NPUs
06:06 AM EDT - AMD - Ryzen AI SR-IOV - 7 Comments
6 May
Rust-Written Redox OS Sees Improvements For Running On Real Hardware
08:22 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Redox OS April 2026 - 36 Comments
D7VK 1.9 Brings Some Hefty Performance Improvements
07:43 PM EDT - Vulkan - D7VK 1.9 - 13 Comments
Mesa 26.1 Released With Many Improvements For Open-Source Vulkan Drivers
04:03 PM EDT - Mesa - Mesa 26.1.0 - 8 Comments
PCIe 8.0 Spec Draft 0.5 Released For 1TB/s Bi-Directional x16 Bandwidth
03:53 PM EDT - Standards - PCIe 8.0 - 45 Comments
Linux 7.2 To Integrate The AMDGPU "Power Module" To Better Align With Windows
01:30 PM EDT - Radeon - AMDGPU DC Power Module - 5 Comments
Nouveau vs. NVIDIA R595 Linux Driver For Workstation Graphics Performance
12:00 PM EDT - Display Drivers - 20 Comments
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Now Supports Device Generated Commands "DGC"
Vulkan SC SDK Released For Safety-Critical Graphics / Compute
09:22 AM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan Safety-Critical - Add A Comment
Dell & Lenovo Now Sponsoring The Linux Vendor Firmware Service
09:10 AM EDT - LVFS - Dell + Lenovo - 22 Comments
VKD3D-Proton 3.0.1 Brings More Improvements For Direct3D 12 On Vulkan
08:30 AM EDT - Vulkan - VKD3D-Proton 3.0.1 - 3 Comments
AMD Expands ROCm Support On Windows WSL To More Ryzen Hardware
07:43 AM EDT - AMD - librocdxg - Add A Comment
AMD Geode CPU Support Being Orphaned By Linux
06:35 AM EDT - AMD - AMD Geode - 15 Comments
Intel Kernel Graphics Driver Brings Panel Replay Tunneling For Linux 7.2
06:22 AM EDT - Intel - drm-intel-next - Add A Comment
GCC Git Lands Fix For Missing AVX-512 Optimizations On AMD Zen 6
5 May
Fedora Yet To Decide On x86_64-v3 Packages For Fedora Linux 45
09:13 PM EDT - Fedora - x86_64-v3 Packages - 25 Comments
Flatpak 1.17.7 To Track The Age Of Configurations For Providing Much Better Performance
08:35 PM EDT - Free Software - Flatpak 1.17.7 - 17 Comments
Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Lands Experimental Support For Descriptor Heaps
04:00 PM EDT - Intel - VK_EXT_descriptor_heap - 3 Comments
Rusticl Driver Ready To Go With OpenCL 3.1 Working On Radeon, Intel Iris & Zink/Vulkan
10:42 AM EDT - Software - Add A Comment
Intel Drivers With Mesa 26.2 Ready With Xe In Linux 7.1 To Better Handle vRAM Pressure
08:57 AM EDT - Intel - Out Of Memory Behaviro - 4 Comments
Manjaro 26.1 Preview Released With GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6 & Xfce 4.20 Options
08:17 AM EDT - Arch Linux - Manjaro 26.1 - 21 Comments
AMD Preps Linux For CPPC HighestFreq Feature Coming With Future ACPI Spec
07:36 AM EDT - AMD - AMD CPPC HighestFreq - Add A Comment
OpenCL 3.1 Released To Bolster AI & HPC Workloads
06:22 AM EDT - Standards - OpenCL 3.1 - 68 Comments
Qt's Latest AI Push Is Letting AI Agents Deal With Performance Profiling
06:08 AM EDT - Qt - QML Profiler For AI Agentic Development - 3 Comments
4 May
AlmaLinux 10.2 Beta Released With Legacy 32-bit Software Support
08:24 PM EDT - Operating Systems - AlmaLinux 10.2 Beta - Add A Comment
NVIDIA Looking To Create New Tool For Generating AutoFDO Profiles For GCC
04:29 PM EDT - NVIDIA - AutoFDO Profiling For GCC Toolchain - 12 Comments
ROCm 7.2.3 Brings Minor Updates, ROCm XIO Documentation
03:55 PM EDT - AMD - ROCm 7.2.3 - 2 Comments
Valve's Steam Controller Now Shipping
01:15 PM EDT - Valve - Steam Controller - 37 Comments
Omarchy 3.7 Linux Distribution Overhauls Gaming Support, Adds Unified CLI
10:55 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Omarchy 3.7 - 47 Comments
GCC 16 Compiler Delivering Some Decent Performance Gains Over GCC 15
09:42 AM EDT - Software - 6 Comments
CachyOS Switches Python To Using Tail-Call Interpreter For 5~15% Better Performance
09:12 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Better CachyOS Python Performance - 13 Comments
Linux File-System Proliferation A Burden: Requirements Laid Out For Any Future File-Systems
06:28 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Requirements For New File-Systems - 84 Comments
Mesa Begins Seeing Patch Activity For AMD GFX12.1 Graphics
05:58 AM EDT - Radeon - AMD GFX12.1 - 4 Comments
3 May
Linux 7.1-rc2 Released With Audio Fix For Steam Deck OLED, Other Fixes
05:30 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 7.1 - Add A Comment
Brush v0.4 Released As "Significant" Release For This Rust-Based Shell
12:02 PM EDT - Programming - Bash Rust Shell - 45 Comments
ReactOS Introduces Unified Live/Install Media, New Storage Driver
10:14 AM EDT - Operating Systems - ReactOS Improvements - 13 Comments
Many Exciting Google Summer of Code 2026 Projects & A Lot Of AI
09:23 AM EDT - Google - GSoC 2026 - 12 Comments
Turtle Beach WaveFront ISA Sound Cards Seeing Suspend/Resume Support On Linux In 2026
06:46 AM EDT - Multimedia - Turtle Beach WaveFront - 8 Comments
The GNOME-Aligned RustConn Connection Manager Continues Piling On More Features
06:29 AM EDT - GNOME - RustConn Features - 10 Comments
New NTFS Driver Sees More Fixes With Linux 7.1-rc2
06:15 AM EDT - Linux Storage - NTFS Driver Fixes - 53 Comments
2 May
Linux 7.1 Fixes Audio For The Steam Deck OLED After Being Broken 2 Years On The Upstream Kernel
08:33 PM EDT - Valve - Linux 7.1-rc2 Fix - 7 Comments
FUSEX File-System Being Developed For Extended/Experimental Features
06:00 PM EDT - Linux Storage - FUSEX File-System - 5 Comments
AMD's GAIA Defaults To Better Model, Continued Improvements For Local AI
04:19 PM EDT - AMD - Generative AI Is Awesome - 27 Comments
Linux 7.1-rc2 Bringing Some More Improvements/Fixes For Older AMD GPUs
02:16 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 7.1 AMDGPU Fixes - 1 Comment
KDE Linux Now Using KMSCON For A Better VT Console Experience
01:04 PM EDT - KDE - KDE Linux + KMSCON - 11 Comments
VideoLAN Publishes Dav2d For Open-Source AV2 Decoder
07:03 AM EDT - Multimedia - dav2d - 49 Comments
FreeBSD 15.1 Beta Released For Early Testing
06:53 AM EDT - BSD - FreeBSD-15.1 Beta - 15 Comments
NVIDIA Ships Fixes For Descriptor Heaps, More Vulkan Performance Optimizations
06:41 AM EDT - NVIDIA - NVIDIA 595.44.06 Vulkan Beta Driver - 10 Comments
KDE Plasma 6.6.5 Fixes Some NVIDIA Performance Issues, More Features Land For Plasma 6.7
06:19 AM EDT - KDE - Plasma This Week - 12 Comments
1 May
Steam On Linux In April Pulled Back From Its Record High Marketshare
08:16 PM EDT - Valve - Steam April 2026 Stats - 31 Comments
Wine 11.8 Improves VBScript Compatibility, Finally Fixes Microsoft Golf 1999
05:52 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 11.8 - 22 Comments
EndeavourOS "Triton" To Ship New Desktop/WM Options, Titan Neo Brings Various Updates
04:13 PM EDT - Operating Systems - EndeavourOS Titan Neo - 1 Comment
Vulkan 1.4.350 Released With Three New Extensions
02:56 PM EDT - Vulkan - Vulkan 1.4.350 - Add A Comment
AMD Posts HDMI 2.1 FRL Patches For Their AMDGPU Linux Driver
10:44 AM EDT - Radeon - HDMI 2.1 FRL - 40 Comments
Linux Support Coming For The ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II: A $160 High-End Gaming Controller
09:12 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - ASUS ROG RAIKIRI II - 13 Comments
Intel Making More GPU Driver Improvements For Crescent Island With Linux 7.2
Mesa Developers Consider Branching Off Some Older GPU Drivers - Including AMD R300/R600
06:17 AM EDT - Mesa - Mesa Amber2 - 59 Comments
Linux 7.0 Release, Age Verification Laws, Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 & Other April Happenings
05:56 AM EDT - Phoronix - April 2026 Highlights - Add A Comment
30 April
Linux 7.2 To Set Default DRM Scheduler Priority To "Fair", New AIE4 Hardware In AMDXDNA
08:26 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - drm-misc-next - 11 Comments
Shotcut 26.4 Released With Timeline Improvements, Vulkan Accelerated Speech-To-Text
05:29 PM EDT - Multimedia - Shotcut 26.4 - 4 Comments
Linux Mint To Begin Publishing HWE ISOs For Better Hardware Support
12:53 PM EDT - Operating Systems - Linux Mint HWE ISOs - 18 Comments
CachyOS Linux Performance Leading Over Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, Fedora Workstation 44
11:45 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 42 Comments
AerynOS Updated With Linux 7.0, Gaming Optimized Kernel Flavor
10:57 AM EDT - Operating Systems - AerynOS April Update - 3 Comments
Linux 7.1-rc1 Showing Off Some Wins On AMD Ryzen Threadripper
08:23 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Threadripper + Linux 7.1 - 1 Comment
GCC 16.1 Released With AMD Zen 6 Support, Algol 68 & Many C++ Improvements
06:37 AM EDT - GNU - GCC 16.1 - 10 Comments
3mdeb Gets More Bits Of AMD openSIL & Coreboot Working On Ryzen AM5 Motherboard
06:28 AM EDT - Coreboot - Latest Milestone Achieved - 4 Comments
AMD Posts Newest Linux Patches To Accelerate Page Migration For Better Performance
06:12 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Accelerated Page Migration - 7 Comments
Servo Browser Engine Seeing Progress On FreeBSD Support
05:52 AM EDT - BSD - Servo + FreeBSD - 12 Comments
CPPC v4 Support Being Worked On NVIDIA For The Linux ACPI Driver
05:45 AM EDT - Standards - ACPI CPPC v4 - Add A Comment
29 April
The Intel Lunar Lake CPU Performance Gains On Linux Over The Past Year
01:30 PM EDT - Operating Systems - 13 Comments
Linux's sched_ext Sees A Bunch Of Bug Fixes Following Increased AI Code Review
11:47 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - sched_ext Fixes - 19 Comments
OpenCL Introducing Cooperative Matrix Extensions For Machine Learning
11:13 AM EDT - Programming - OpenCL Cooperative Matrix - 6 Comments
Rust-Written Zed 1.0 Code Editor Released
11:02 AM EDT - Programming - Zed 1.0 - 56 Comments
Hygon C86-4G CPU Support Added To The GCC 17 Compiler
09:14 AM EDT - GNU - HYGON C86-4G - 6 Comments
Libcamera 0.7.1 Released With Improved Software ISP
06:30 AM EDT - Multimedia - libcamera 0.7.1 - 3 Comments
Wayland Developers Target June For Weston 16 Release
06:17 AM EDT - Wayland - Weston 16 - 8 Comments
Devuan Developer Working On Reviving GTK2 With Modern Fixes
06:05 AM EDT - Free Software - gtk2-ng - 84 Comments
28 April
AMD Introducing New Linux Driver For Their Halo Box: For Its RGB LED Light Bar
08:49 PM EDT - AMD - AMD Halo Box - 6 Comments
Valve Updates GameNetworkingSockets After Nearly Four Year Hiatus
08:22 PM EDT - Valve - GameNetworkingSockets - 11 Comments
IBM Updates Linux Patches For Introducing ARM64 KVM Virtualization On s390
12:54 PM EDT - Virtualization - ARM64 On s390 / IBM Z - 3 Comments
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Leads Over Windows 11 In Creator Workstation Performance
11:00 AM EDT - Operating Systems - 19 Comments
AMD's Lemonade SDK 10.3 Now 10x Smaller By Getting Rid Of Electron
10:35 AM EDT - AMD - Lemonade 10.3 - 16 Comments
Sovereign Tech Agency Launches New Initiative To Help Open Standards
09:35 AM EDT - Free Software - Sovereign Tech Standards - 11 Comments
GCC 16's Improved Error Messages, Experimental HTML Output
09:13 AM EDT - GNU - GCC 16 Error Messages - 11 Comments
Fedora 44 Released For Living On The Leading-Edge Of Linux Innovations
08:31 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora Linux 44 - 37 Comments
Proton 11.0 Beta 2 Updates VKD3D-Proton
07:00 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - Proton 11.0 - 1 Comment
Ubuntu's "AI Kill Switch" Is Achieved By Removing Snaps, Initially Opt-In
06:25 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu AI - 24 Comments
AMDXDNA Driver Preps Hardware Scheduler Time Quantum For Ryzen AI Multi-User Fairness
06:06 AM EDT - AMD - Hardware Scheduler Time Quantum - Add A Comment
7-Zip 26.01 Now Allows Making Use Of Huge Pages On Linux For Faster Compression
05:55 AM EDT - Free Software - 7-Zip 26.01 - 9 Comments
WayVNC 0.10 Released For Advancing This Leading VNC Server For Wayland
05:43 AM EDT - Wayland - WayVNC 0.10 - 37 Comments
27 April
Red Hat's Stratis Storage 3.9 Released With Online Encryption/Decryption/Reencryption
08:21 PM EDT - Linux Storage - Stratisd 3.9 - 19 Comments
RADV Vulkan Driver Adds Memory Protection Using AMD Trusted Memory Zone
03:33 PM EDT - Radeon - Vulkan protectedMemory - 23 Comments
Valve Confirms Steam Controller Release Date, $99 Price
01:33 PM EDT - Valve - Steam Controller - 91 Comments
Intel Core Ultra 5 250K Plus Provides Exceptional Value For Linux Users
11:06 AM EDT - Processors - 23 Comments
With Linux 7.1 The Mainline Kernel Now Supports Real-Time "RT" On ARM
XWayland 24.1.11 Brings Crash Fixes
08:59 AM EDT - Wayland - XWayland 24.1.11 - 8 Comments
Ubuntu Linux Will Begin Landing AI Features Throughout The Next Year
06:30 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu + AI - 31 Comments
Linux 7.1 Adds SoC Slider Support To x86_energy_perf_policy Utility
06:27 AM EDT - Intel - x86_energy_perf_policy - Add A Comment
AMD VPE 2.0 Support Merged For Mesa 26.2
06:10 AM EDT - Radeon - AMD VPE 2.0 - 2 Comments
D7VK v1.8 Continues Improving Legacy Direct3D Atop The Vulkan API
12:00 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - D7VK 1.8 - 14 Comments
26 April
Linux 7.1-rc1 Released With New NTFS Driver, FRED By Default & Much More
05:37 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 7.1 - 4 Comments
CachyOS Introduces New Default GUI Package Manager, Kyber For NVMe I/O Scheduler
12:50 PM EDT - Arch Linux - CachyOS April 2026 - 38 Comments
The Linux Kernel Tree About To Hit 40 Million Lines, AMD Driver Above 6 Million Lines
10:48 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Nearly 40 Million Lines - 17 Comments
The New Linux Kernel AI Bot Uncovering Bugs Is A Local LLM On Framework Desktop + AMD Ryzen AI Max
07:00 AM EDT - AI - gregkh_clanker_t1000 - 42 Comments
Apple M3 Support On Asahi Linux Is Approaching The Original Alpha Quality Of The M1
06:40 AM EDT - Apple - Apple M3 Linux Support - 90 Comments
Legacy NVIDIA xf86-video-nv Driver Sees First Release In Years
06:10 AM EDT - NVIDIA - xf86-video-nv - 28 Comments
25 April
LACT 0.9 Released With UI Updates, Voltage-Frequency Curve Editor For NVIDIA
04:10 PM EDT - Free Software - LACT 0.9 - 29 Comments
Niri 26.04 Wayland Compositor Adds Much Sought After Blur Support
12:59 PM EDT - Wayland - Niri 26.04 - 16 Comments
Microsoft Reportedly Looking At Rebasing Azure Linux On Fedora
09:53 AM EDT - Operating Systems - Fedora-Based Azure Linux - 46 Comments
Linux 7.1 Brings Audio Support For The Line6 POD HD PRO & NexiGo N930W Webcam
09:30 AM EDT - Multimedia - Linux 7.1 Sound - 2 Comments
New NTFS Driver Sees A Number Of Fixes Ahead Of Linux 7.1-rc1
07:26 AM EDT - Linux Storage - NTFS Improvements - 14 Comments
07:08 AM EDT - Fedora - Fedora 44 Next Week - 34 Comments
LoongArch Improvements Land In Linux 7.1
06:54 AM EDT - Hardware - LoongArch - Add A Comment
Godot 4.7 Reaches Beta With HDR Output, Ray-Tracing Improvements & Editor Enhancements
06:42 AM EDT - Linux Gaming - Godot 4.7 - 1 Comment
KDE Plasma 6.7 Enables Overlay Planes For Intel Graphics, More Performance/Efficiency
06:25 AM EDT - KDE - Plasma 6.7 - 10 Comments
24 April
Farewell ISDN, Ham Radio & Old Network Drivers: Linus Torvalds Merges 138k L.O.C. Removal
02:49 PM EDT - Linux Networking - Linux 7.1 Drops Old Networking - 59 Comments
GCC Establishes Working Group To Decide On AI/LLM Policy
01:17 PM EDT - GNU - GCC + LLMs? - 21 Comments
Fwupd 2.1.2 Brings Support For Firmware Updates On More Hardware
11:12 AM EDT - LVFS - Fwupd 2.1.2 - 2 Comments
Linux 7.1 Is Performing Well Overall In Early Benchmarks
10:43 AM EDT - Software - 7 Comments
Many Intel & AMD Laptop Improvements Merged For Linux 7.1
10:00 AM EDT - Hardware - x86 Platform Drivers - 4 Comments
AMD SBI Driver Preps For EPYC Venice With Linux 7.1
09:43 AM EDT - AMD - Linux 7.1 EPYC - Add A Comment
Linux 7.1 Removes Drivers For Long Obsolete Input Hardware: Bye Bus Mouse Support
09:22 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 7.1 - 19 Comments
Arm C1-Ultra Scheduling Model Merged For LLVM/Clang 23
06:23 AM EDT - Arm - C1-Ultra - 11 Comments
Pull Request For Linux To Remove Old Network Drivers, ISDN Subsystem Due To AI/LLM Noise
06:08 AM EDT - Linux Networking - Removal - 19 Comments
23 April
HDMI FRL Support Achieved With Open-Source Nouveau For NVIDIA GPUs
08:16 PM EDT - Nouveau - HDMI FRL On Nouveau - 47 Comments
Opera GX Browser Gets Flatpak'ed & Snap'ed On Linux
05:22 PM EDT - Proprietary Software - Opera GX Browser - 24 Comments
Linux 7.1 Removes Some Obsolete PCMCIA Drivers That Likely Haven't Been Used In Years
04:18 PM EDT - Linux Kernel - PCMCIA Host Controller Drivers - 4 Comments
Oracle To Reduce The Frequency Of Solaris 11.4 Updates
04:03 PM EDT - Oracle - Solaris 11.4 Updates - 13 Comments
Ubuntu 26.04 LTS Now Available & Powered By Linux 7.0
12:32 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu 26.04 LTS - 45 Comments
Godot 4.7 Will Finally Have HDR Output, Including On Linux With Wayland
12:25 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - Godot 4.7 - 6 Comments
Exploring The Workloads Where The AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Makes A Lot Of Sense
11:30 AM EDT - Processors - 34 Comments
Ubuntu Server 26.04 LTS Will Now Automatically Install HWE/OEM Kernel Packages
System76 Thelio Major Workstation Updated For Better Thermals, More Performance
10:49 AM EDT - Hardware - System76 Thelio Major - 2 Comments
Ubuntu 26.04 Allows "sudo apt install rocm" But It's Months Out-Of-Date
09:28 AM EDT - Radeon - sudo apt install rocm - 31 Comments
OpenBLAS 0.3.33 Released With Automatic "BIGNUMA" For More Than 256 CPU Cores
08:23 AM EDT - Programming - OpenBLAS 0.3.33 - 1 Comment
Many USB Improvements & New Hardware Merged For Linux 7.1
06:28 AM EDT - Hardware - Linux 7.1 USB - Add A Comment
Linux 7.1 Lands The Apple SMC Power Driver For Reporting Battery Metrics On MacBooks
06:12 AM EDT - Apple - Apple SMC Power Driver - 3 Comments
FreeRDP 3.25 Adds Experimental AV1 Support
05:56 AM EDT - Desktop - FreeRDP 3.25 - 7 Comments
22 April
Linux 7.1 Adds Support For 12 New SoCs, Other ARM & RISC-V Hardware
Intel Ends Open Ecosystem Community/Evangelism, Archives Other Open-Source Projects
04:28 PM EDT - Intel - Intel GitHub Projects Archived - 42 Comments
Ubuntu Rust Coreutils Audit Revealed 113 Issues, Ubuntu 26.10 Aims For "100% Rust Coreutils"
12:21 PM EDT - Ubuntu - Ubuntu Rust Coreutils - 67 Comments
GCC 16 Compiler Nearly Ready For Release With Zen 6, AVX10.2, APX & Algol 68
11:53 AM EDT - GNU - GCC 16.1 - 13 Comments
FreeBSD Working On Intel FRED Support, Laptop Improvements Continue
11:30 AM EDT - BSD - FreeBSD Q1-2026 - Add A Comment
KMSCON Continues Improving For VT Terminal Emulator In User-Space
10:26 AM EDT - Free Software - KMSCON 9.3.4 - 25 Comments
Many Great Networking Improvements Arrive In Linux 7.1
10:11 AM EDT - Linux Networking - Linux 7.1 Networking - 3 Comments
Ubuntu Looks Toward More Snap-Based Devpacks Moving Forward
09:50 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Developer Packs - 39 Comments
Intel LLM-Scaler vllm-0.14.0-b8.2 Released With Official Arc Pro B70 Support
08:54 AM EDT - Intel - LLM-Scaler vllm-0.14.0-b8.2 - 2 Comments
Ghostty OpenGL-Accelerated Terminal Available On Ubuntu 26.04 LTS
06:27 AM EDT - Ubuntu - Ghostty On Ubuntu - 31 Comments
QEMU 11.0 Released With CET Virtualization Support, Native Nitro Enclaves
06:14 AM EDT - Virtualization - QEMU 11.0 - 13 Comments
21 April
F2FS, EXT4 & XFS Focus On Fixes For Linux 7.1
08:48 PM EDT - Linux Storage - Flash-Friendly File-System - 5 Comments
Linux May Drop Old Network Drivers Now That AI-Driven Bug Reports Are Causing A Burden
03:45 PM EDT - AI - AI Bug Reports - 65 Comments
Framework Computer Announces The Framework Laptop 13 Pro
02:15 PM EDT - Hardware - Framework Laptop 13 Pro - 40 Comments
Framework Previews The OCuLink Dev Kit
02:15 PM EDT - Hardware - Framework OCuLink Dev Kit For eGPUs - 3 Comments
AlmaLinux Comments On California Age Verification Law
12:40 PM EDT - Operating Systems - AlmaLinux - 55 Comments
NTFS-3G FUSE Driver Sees First New Release In Four Years
11:41 AM EDT - Linux Storage - NTFS-3G - 14 Comments
AMD Ryzen 9 9950X3D2 Benchmarks: The Best Desktop Performance For Linux Developers, Creators
09:00 AM EDT - Processors - 68 Comments
Intel IRDMA Driver Adds Support For GEN4 Hardware In Linux 7.1
08:55 AM EDT - Intel - Intel IRDMA Gen4 - Add A Comment
RADV Driver Enables Host Image Copy By Default For RDNA2 & Newer
08:24 AM EDT - Radeon - VK_EXT_host_image_copy - 3 Comments
Linux 7.1 Lands Workaround For Arm C1-Pro Erratum
06:35 AM EDT - Arm - C1-Pro Bug - 2 Comments
Initial Linux Driver Patches For Smart Data Accelerator Interface "SDXI"
06:22 AM EDT - Hardware - Smart Data Accelerator Interface - Add A Comment
Linux 7.1 Staging Ushered In More Developers To Make Their First Kernel Contributions
06:00 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 7.1 Staging - Add A Comment
20 April
AMD's GAIA Makes It Easier To Import/Export Custom AI Agents Across PCs
HarfBuzz Continues Improving Its New GPU-Accelerated Text Shaping Library
08:23 PM EDT - Free Software - HarfBuzz - 4 Comments
Linux 7.1 KVM Adds "Very Experimental" Support For pKVM Protected Guests
03:59 PM EDT - Virtualization - pKVM Protected Guests - 2 Comments
While New NTFS Driver Merged, NTFS3 Driver Sees Fixes & Minor Changes For Linux 7.1
03:41 PM EDT - Linux Storage - NTFS In Linux 7.1 - 5 Comments
Box64 0.4.2 Begins Working On POWER PPC64LE Backend, Support For SteamRT3 + Proton 11
01:16 PM EDT - Linux Gaming - Box64 0.4.2 - 10 Comments
Git 2.54 Released With New Experimental "git history" Command
01:03 PM EDT - Programming - Git 2.54 - 10 Comments
GNU Coreutils 9.11 Brings New Performance Improvements: Up To 15x Faster cat
10:48 AM EDT - GNU - GNU Coreutils 9.11 - 45 Comments
Firefox 150 Available With GTK Emoji Picker, CSS Media Element Pseudo-Classes
10:34 AM EDT - Mozilla - Firefox 150 - 50 Comments
Intel Compute Runtime Promotes Support For Wildcat Lake, "Early" Crescent Island
A Lot Of Memory Management "MM" Improvements Merged For Linux 7.1
09:35 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 7.1 MM - 7 Comments
Popular Rust-Based Database Turns To AI For Up To 1.5x Speedup, Other Improvements
06:27 AM EDT - Linux Storage - Redb 4.1 - 22 Comments
Linux 7.1 Kernel Graphics Driver Changes Merged With Intel & AMD Leading The Way
06:12 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 7.1 DRM - Add A Comment
JFS Sees Data Integrity Hardening With Linux 7.1
05:58 AM EDT - Linux Storage - JFS File-System - 8 Comments
LXQt 2.4 Released With More Wayland Fixes/Improvements
05:36 AM EDT - Desktop - LXQt 2.4 - 5 Comments
19 April
New Lenovo Legion Go Drivers & More Sony HID Device Support In Linux 7.1
08:42 PM EDT - Hardware - Linux 7.1 HID - Add A Comment
GIMP 3.2.4 Released With A Fix For Its XCF Code That Has Existed Since 1999
06:45 PM EDT - Free Software - GIMP 3.2.4 - 8 Comments
New Debian Project Leader Elected For 2026
04:58 PM EDT - Debian - Sruthi Chandran - 61 Comments
GNOME Fixes Screencasting Issue With H.264 Recordings Being ~18x Larger Than VP8
03:14 PM EDT - GNOME - Rate Control - 15 Comments
Linux 7.1 Adds Some New PCIe Drivers While Nuking Some PCI Drivers
Valve Developer Further Improves Old AMD GPUs: HD 7870 XT Finally Working On Linux
09:25 AM EDT - Radeon - Harvested GPU Support - 63 Comments
Linux 7.1 Sound Code Adds Bus Keepers: Aiming For Better Apple Silicon Support
07:07 AM EDT - Multimedia - Linux 7.1 Sound - 5 Comments
CachyOS Rolls Out A Super-Charged Linux 7.0 Kernel
06:44 AM EDT - Arch Linux - CachyOS + Linux 7.0 - 49 Comments
Intel QAT Zstd, QAT Gen6 Improvements Merged For Linux 7.1
06:30 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 7.1 Crypto - Add A Comment
18 April
Linux 7.1 Sees RAID Fixes, IO_uring Enhancements
08:25 PM EDT - Linux Storage - Linux 7.1 Block - 3 Comments
GhostBSD 26.1 Now Based On FreeBSD 15.0, Switches to XLibre X Server
03:15 PM EDT - BSD - GhostBSD 26.1 - 147 Comments
Linux 7.1 Adds New AMD SMCA Bank Types, Presumably For Upcoming EPYC Venice
02:41 PM EDT - AMD - New AMD SMCA Bank Types - Add A Comment
WireGuard For Windows Reaches v1.0
01:40 PM EDT - Microsoft - WireGuard - 14 Comments
Linux 7.1 Scheduler Changes May Benefit Some Workloads
07:06 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - Linux 7.1 Scheduler - Add A Comment
GNOME's Maps, Graphs, RustConn & Other App Improvements
06:45 AM EDT - GNOME - GNOME Apps - 7 Comments
Linux 7.1 Lands High Resolution Timer "HRTIMER" Overhaul
06:36 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - HRTIMER Rework - 6 Comments
KDE Plasma 6.7 Ready With Wayland Session Management, Other New Improvements
06:05 AM EDT - KDE - KDE Plasma 6.7 - 25 Comments
17 April
The "NTFS Resurrection" Has Occurred For Linux 7.1
08:57 PM EDT - Linux Storage - New NTFS Driver - 80 Comments
AMD FP-DSS Security Bug For Zen 1 CPUs Made Public, Linux Kernel Patched
08:35 PM EDT - AMD - AMD FPDSS - 10 Comments
Wine 11.7 Brings VBScript Fixes, DirectSound 7.1 Channel Support
08:24 PM EDT - WINE - Wine 11.7 - 8 Comments
Intel Xe2 Lunar Lake Linux Graphics Performance Up ~17% Over Past Year
10:52 AM EDT - Display Drivers - 5 Comments
Valve Developer Lands RADV/ACO Changes For AMD's GFX11.7 / RDNA 4m
09:48 AM EDT - Radeon - AMD RDNA 4m - 9 Comments
Glibc Lands A Big Optimization For LoongArch CPUs
08:47 AM EDT - Hardware - Faster LoongArch - 5 Comments
Linux 7.1 Crypto Code Rework Enables More Optimizations By Default
08:27 AM EDT - Linux Kernel - More Performance - 1 Comment
Fedora 44 Will Not Be Released Next Week
08:17 AM EDT - Fedora - No-Go - 33 Comments
GCC Compiler Adds Arm AGI CPU Target
06:19 AM EDT - Arm - -mcpu=armagicpu - 3 Comments
Linux 7.1 x86/x86_64 Aligns With Other Architectures Now For Supporting Custom Restart Handlers
06:07 AM EDT - Hardware - Custom Restart Handlers - 3 Comments
New Lenovo Fan Driver, More ASUS Motherboards With Sensor Monitoring For Linux 7.1
05:53 AM EDT - Hardware - HWMON - Add A Comment