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Wayland Looks To Do Away With Alpha & Beta Releases
Ongoing Wayland release manager Simon Ser has proposed doing away with alpha and beta releases moving forward as a sign of Wayland's maturity and to ease the release management process...
Mesa 25.1.1 Released With Radeon Workarounds For DOOM: The Dark Ages
Following the Mesa 25.1 stable release from earlier this month, Mesa 25.1.1 is now available as the first point release bringing an assortment of different OpenGL and Vulkan driver fixes...
AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 Series Launching In July For Linux Workstations
Along with announcing the Radeon AI PRO R9700 and Radeon RX 9060 XT specifications, on the CPU side AMD used their Computex 2025 keynote for introducing the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series that will be launching in July...
AMD Provides Initial Details On The Radeon RX 9060 XT
In addition to announcing the Radeon AI PRO R9700 and Threadripper 9000 series processors, AMD also introduced the Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card at Computex 2025...
AMD Announces The Radeon AI PRO R9700 Graphics Coming In July
From the AMD keynote at Computex today the Raeon AI PRO R9700 Graphics were announced in delivering RDNA4 graphics for professionals...
AMD Announces ROCm-DS
AMD this evening announced ROCm-DS as a new toolkit for their ROCm compute stack to accelerate data processing workloads on Instinct accelerators...
Linux Scheduler Patches Aim To Address Performance Regression Since Last Year
A set of Linux kernel scheduler patches posted today are trying to address some performance regressions observed since the Linux 6.11 kernel that was released back in September 2024. These performance-fixing patches are flying under a "request for comments" flag and some of the regressions are tricky and perhaps not completely resolved, but it looks to be a step in the right direction...
Fedora 43 Cleared To Ship With Wayland-Only GNOME
The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) today signed off on the planned change for Fedora 43 that the GNOME desktop will be Wayland-only: the GNOME X11 packages will be removed in this next Fedora Linux release...
Red Hat & AMD Collaborating To Further Enhance Open-Source GPU Stack For AI
In addition to AMD being involved with Red Hat on the new llm-d open-source project for Gen AI, AMD and Red Hat also announced today further collaboration around open-source GPU/accelerator support for AI workloads...
Red Hat Announces The llm-d Open-Source Project For Gen AI
In addition to rolling out Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat used their annual developer summit today for introducing llm-d as their newest open-source project...
Some Minor Performance Hits Observed With New Intel Arrow Lake 0x118 CPU Microcode
Last week Intel released new CPU microcode for a number of processor generations due to the Training Solo vulnerability and Branch Privilege Injection. In this article today are some benchmarks looking at the performance difference from simply upgrading to the new CPU microcode on an Intel Core Ultra 9 285K "Arrow Lake" desktop system...
LibreOffice 25.8 Alpha 1 Released With Performance Optimizations
The first alpha release of LibreOffice 25.8 is now available for testing of this cross-platform, free software office suite...
Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 Formally Announced, Joined By RISC-V Developer Preview
While Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0 GA images have been available for download since last week, Red Hat used the Red Hat Summit this week in Boston to formally announce the Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 availability...
VKD3D 1.16 Released With DXIL Shader Support
VKD3D 1.16 was released today by Wine/CodeWeavers developers as this upstream Direct3D 12 over Vulkan API implementation used by Wine for running D3D12 Windows games/applications on Linux...
Adaptive Sharpness Property Still Being Worked On For Intel Lunar Lake & Newer On Linux
Since last summer Intel open-source driver engineers have been working to make use of Lunar Lake's new adaptive sharpening capabilities under Linux. This is being done via a proposed DRM sharpness property for communicating sharpness preferences while the hardware capabilities within Lunar Lake equate to minimal power and performance costs when in use. The DRM sharpness property support still has yet to be mainlined but the newest iteration of the patches were posted on Monday...
Intel Enabling Platform Temperature Control Interface For Linux 6.16
Queued up within the Linux power management subsystem's "linux-next" branch is enabling support for the Intel Platform Temperature Control Interface...
More "Nova" Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Code To Be Upstreamed For Linux 6.16
In addition to the Nouveau driver set to see NVIDIA Blackwell and Hopper GPU support with the upcoming Linux 6.16 cycle, the modern, Rust-based Nova driver for future open-source NVIDIA GPU support is set to become a bit more full with this next kernel release...
Rust Abstractions For CPUFreq Prepped For Linux 6.16
More Rust programming language abstractions are on the way for the upcoming Linux 6.16 cycle to allow for more areas where Rust-based drivers can be created for the kernel...
New Patch Series Allows OverlayFS To Work With Casefolding
Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet posted ap atch series today enabling use of the OverlayFS file-system in cojunction with an underlying file-system supporting case-folding for case insensitive files/folders/..
Debian's APT 3.1 Released With Why/Why-Not Commands, New Solver Default On Ubuntu
Following the release earlier this year of the big APT 3.0 package manager tool release, APT 3.1 was tagged today as another step forward to this key tool on Debian-based Linux distributions...