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VK messenger Max becomes available on Astra Linux  Telecompaper

We eagerly await to see if the AMD ISP4 driver will be ready for mainlining in the imminent Linux v6.19 merge window but it's getting down to the wire and thus looking less likely it will make it unless action is taken in the coming days. Today though a sixth version of this AMD ISP4 image signal processor driver was posted for this last piece of the puzzle in enabling the web camera on the HP ZBook Ultra G1a Strix Halo laptop as well as future Ryzen high-end laptops...

AMD ISP4 Linux Webcam Driver Updated For HP ZBook Ultra G1a & Future Ryzen Laptops  Phoronix

Damaged Pocket Computer Becomes Portable Linux Machine  Hackaday

Damaged Pocket Computer Becomes Portable Linux Machine  Hackaday

AV Linux 25 Multimedia Production Distro Brings Enlightenment to MX Linux 25  9to5Linux

The NTFSPLUS Linux kernel driver as a modern NTFS file-system driver implementation continues quickly taking shape as it aims to become the most performant and feature-rich NTFS read/write driver for Linux systems...

A Huawei engineer has sent out patches proposing HQspinlock as a Hierarchical Queued NUMA-aware spinlock for the Linux kernel. HQspinlock aims to addresss inefficiencies within the Linux kernel's spinlock on modern NUMA-systems due to frequent and costly cross-NUMA cache-line transfers...

HQspinlock Proposal For Linux Shows Very Nice Performance Benefits For Large Servers  Phoronix

KDE is going Wayland-only in the future  gHacks Technology News

itch.io is hosting a creator day today where they take no fee from developers  GamingOnLinux

Self-Hosting is Rising and Linux Users are Leading This Revolution  It's FOSS

My favorite Linux desktop environment is finally canning X11 for good, but don't panic just yet  XDA

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Vulkan 1.4.335 released a few hours ago as the latest iteration of this high performance graphics and compute API. With being just a week since the prior update and given the US Thanksgiving week, it's on the lighter side in terms of issues addressed. There is one new extension though and it's a big one: VK_EXT_present_timing is finally merged...

It's been two months since there were any notable Intel Linux engineering departures to note following various layoffs and voluntary departures this year that have unfortunately impacted their Linux/open-source talent. Sadly this US Thanksgiving is a new departure to note: one of Intel's maintainers for the Xe open-source Linux kernel graphics driver is leaving the company. This is for the modern Xe driver used by default since Lunar Lake and playing a pivotal role for Intel Linux graphics moving forward...

One Of Intel's Xe Open-Source Linux Graphics Driver Maintainers Is Departing  Phoronix

Intel Core Ultra 9 285K Gains 9% Performance Boost on Linux After One Year  eTeknix

Red Hat Research Quarterly - “It’s the wild frontier”: Security, agentic AI, and open source Luke Hinds and Ryan Cook discuss the urgent need to develop security in AI, the importance of model provenance and transparency, the essential role of the open source community, and adapting authorization protocols for AI agents. Learn more Alliander modernises its electricity grid with Red Hat for long-term reliability in balance with rapid innovationAlliander, a Dutch grid operator, modernized its electricity network by decoupling short-lifecycle control software from long-lasting hardware us

Windows vs macOS vs Linux: the time to switch is now | by Kostas Farkonas | Turn On | Press Play | Nov, 2025  Medium