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LACT 0.8 GPU Configuration & Monitoring Tool Introduces More Features

Sat, 06/28/2025 - 18:24
While a number of Linux desktop users have expressed disappointment over Intel and AMD not providing any GUI for their GPU driver settings and similar functionality like they do under Windows, there are a number of third-party open-source GUI programs for managing graphics driver settings. One of the most capable solutions is LACT for GPU configuration and monitoring. Out today is LACT 0.8 with more features now in place...

KDE Devs Add Wayland Session Management To Qt 6.10, Inertial Scrolling For Qt Quick Apps

Sat, 06/28/2025 - 18:01
KDE developers this week have been busy with a mix of polishing the recent Plasma 6.4 release as well as taking on more feature development work for Plasma 6.5 coming later in the year...

"Tyr" Announced As New Rust-Written Linux Kernel Graphics Driver

Sat, 06/28/2025 - 08:32
An unexpected announcement this Friday evening is an introduction to Tyr, a new Linux kernel DRM graphics driver written in the Rust programming language. As is sadly becoming more common among Linux GPU kernel drivers is the increasing obscure driver names. Tyr?!?..

Wine 10.11 Makes More Preparations For NTSYNC Support

Sat, 06/28/2025 - 06:57
Wine 10.11 is out for testing today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this software for running Microsoft Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms...

RADV vs. AMDVLK Driver Performance For Strix Halo Radeon 8060S Graphics

Fri, 06/27/2025 - 23:10
The latest in our ongoing testing of AMD Strix Halo performance using the HP ZBook Ultra G1a is analyzing the Vulkan API performance between Mesa's RADV driver and the AMDVLK official open-source AMD Vulkan driver for Linux systems. More than one hundred benchmarks were run looking at the performance from Steam Play games to Vulkan compute workloads.

Ubuntu Concept 25.04 ISOs Published For Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Laptops

Fri, 06/27/2025 - 21:54
Similar to the Ubuntu 24.10 concept ISOs for Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptops, Canonical has begun publishing new "concept" images of Ubuntu 25.04 ISOs optimized for use on the growing number of Qualcomm Snpadragon X Elite laptops. This week marks the release of the new ISOs for enhancing Ubuntu Linux on various ARM laptops...

Canonical Makes Multipass VM Manager Fully Open-Source

Fri, 06/27/2025 - 21:05
Canonical's Multipass lightweight VM manager for not only Linux systems but also Windows and macOS is now considered fully open-source. Multipass started out as a means of running an Ubuntu environment with ease from a single command on major operating systems. With today's Multipass 1.16 release candidate, it's now fully open-source...

NVIDIA Blackwell Support Coming Together For NVK Vulkan In Mesa

Fri, 06/27/2025 - 18:43
Merged for the current Linux 6.16 cycle was initial NVIDIA Blackwell GPU support with the Nouveau open-source driver. NVIDIA Blackwell GPU support was tacked onto the existing Nouveau kernel driver rather than having to wait for the new "NOVA" driver and like prior generations continuing to leverage the GSP firmware. For going along with that Nouveau support, the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver support for Blackwell continues being put together too...

Bcachefs Changes End Up Being Merged Into Linux 6.16, For 6.17: "We'll Be Parting Ways"

Fri, 06/27/2025 - 18:27
Last week was a Bcachefs pull request consisting of fixes and a new "journal_rewind" feature to aide as a disaster recovery tool for the file-system. But with that code being submitted as part of the ongoing Linux 6.16 release candidates, it drew criticism from Linus Torvalds and other kernel developers. However, one week later and that discussion having subsided a few days ago, Linus Torvalds ended up merging all of the code. But there is a concerning warning for the future of Bcachefs in the mainline Linux kernel...

AMD Platinum Sponsor Of Debian's DebConf25 - Promoting ROCm

Fri, 06/27/2025 - 18:05
The Debian project announced on Thursday that AMD has got on-board for being a platinum sponsor of their upcoming DebConf25 developer conference happening in July in Brest, France...

VirtualBox 7.2 Beta 2 Preps Linux 6.16 Support, More Windows On ARM Enhancements

Fri, 06/27/2025 - 08:31
In addition to releasing Oracle Linux 10 today, Oracle also released the second beta of the upcoming VirtualBox 7.2 cross-platform virtualization software...

Ubuntu Maker Canonical Generated Nearly $300M In Revenue Last Year

Fri, 06/27/2025 - 02:47
A decade ago Canonical did around $81 million in revenue (2014) with a head count of around 337 at the company behind Ubuntu Linux while their Linux desktop efforts were still gaining a footing with OEMs/ODMs pre-loads, within enterprise desktop environments, and the lucrative server/cloud space. Canonical recently filed their 2024 annual report and they are now up to almost $300 million USD in revenue and a headcount of more than 1,100...

Rust 1.88 Released With Improvements For Naked Functions, Chaining Let Statements

Fri, 06/27/2025 - 02:38
Last month saw the release of Rust 1.87 that celebrated ten years of the Rust programming language while out today is Rust 1.88 that continues iterating the language with new features...

Mesa 25.2 RADV Driver Merges Support For AV1 Vulkan Video Encode

Fri, 06/27/2025 - 00:28
Published last November as part of Vulkan 1.3.302 was the VK_KHR_video_encode_av1 extension for adding AV1 video encoding to the Vulkan Video API. Ahead of next quarter's Mesa 25.2 release, the open-source Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" has merged its AV1 encode support...

Mir 2.21 Released With Cursor Scaling & Mouse Keys Support

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 23:18
Mir 2.21 is out today for this Ubuntu/Canonical project to serve as a set of libraries used to simplify the development of Wayland-based shells/environments...

Oracle Linux 10 Reaches GA, Available With Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel 8.1

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 22:39
Building off the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 (RHEL 10.0) just over one month ago, Oracle today announced the general availability of Oracle Linux 10.0...

Firefox 141 Beta Lowering RAM Use On Linux But Still Benchmarking Behind Chrome

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 20:41
Following this week's release of Firefox 140, Firefox 141 was promoted to beta. Most exciting for Linux users with next month's Firefox 141 release is finally lowering system RAM use! I've been running some benchmarks looking at the impact.

Ubuntu 25.10 Snapshot 2 Released

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 19:47
Last month Canonical announced plans for releasing monthly Ubuntu Linux development snapshots and was followed by the Questing Snapshot 1 release in the road toward Ubuntu 25.10. Out today is the Questing Snapshot 2 release for incorporating the latest Ubuntu 25.10 development changes...

AMD CPUID Faulting Support Looks To Be Coming For Linux 6.17

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 18:30
As a follow-up to the article a few weeks ago about AMD enabling User CPUID Faulting support for Linux, that code looks like it's ready to go for being introduced in the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel...

Bochs DRM Panic Support, Panfrost Adds Mediatek MT8370 SoC For Linux 6.17

Thu, 06/26/2025 - 18:18
Maxime Ripard at Red Hat sent out the latest weekly pull of "drm-misc-next" changes to DRM-Next for queuing of these kernel graphics/display driver changes ahead of the Linux 6.17 merge window opening up in about one month's time...

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