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Ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc6 kernel release due out later today, an x86/urgent pull request was sent out today that includes some fixes for old AMD Zen 2 hardware...

GParted Live 1.7.0-8 Adds Mechanism to Reduce Random Order of Block Devices  9to5Linux

Last week I wrote about a number of patches coming out of AMD for Next-Gen Geometry "NGG" improvements to the AMD OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for Linux. Some of that code hadn't been merged as of writing but fortunately this week the remainder of the NGG improvements were successfully merged to Mesa Git for this quarter's Mesa 25.2 release...

AMD NGG Improvements Make It Into Mesa 25.2 Ahead Of Next Week's Code Branching  Phoronix

Amid Intel's ongoing financial difficulties and multiple rounds of layoffs some Linux engineers at Intel left last year and there's been at least one prominent departure this week amid the latest round of challenges at the company...

Another Longtime Intel Linux Engineer Leaves The Company  Phoronix

Last month when the Fairphone 6 smartphone was announced, same-day Linux support patches were posted for this modular and repair-friendly smartphone. That Linux support code with the Device Tree (DT) files have been under review and out today is the second iteration of those enablement patches...

Linux Patches Updated For The New Fairphone 6 Smartphone  Phoronix

The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS had a busy month of June with a number of enhancements made to this OS. Haiku just published their convenient monthly recap that highlights all of the interesting changes made the past month to this open-source OS...

Haiku OS Sees Work On Better App HiDPI Scaling, Better Intel WiFI Driver From OpenBSD  Phoronix

GStreamer 1.27.1 released this week as the first development version toward the GStreamer 1.28 release coming later in the year. GStreamer 1.27/1.28 is bringing a lot of modern feature enhancements for this widely-used multimedia library...

Canonical Plans for a Fully Functional Desktop Session on RISC-V with Ubuntu 25.10  9to5Linux

5 Ways Ubuntu Changed How I Use My PC  How-To Geek

Ahead of tomorrow's Linux 6.16-rc6 kernel release a number of Bcachefs file-system fixes were merged...

KDE Plasma Kicks Windows 11's Butt With This One Feature  How-To Geek

It's been a while since there have been any new patches in the Wine-Staging experimental area to note. More patches though have continued working their way from Wine-Staging to upstream/mainline Wine while this weekend Wine-Staging 10.2 is out at 292 patches atop upstream Wine and containing two new patches...

Mozilla VPN is Now Available for All Linux Distros  It's FOSS News

The price of software freedom is eternal politics  theregister.com

In addition to Intel preparing Bartlett Lake S EDAC driver support for Linux 6.17, several other recent and upcoming Intel processors are also set to see Error Detection and Correction (EDAC) driver coverage with this next version of the Linux kernel...

Linux 6.17 Readies EDAC Support For Intel Granite Rapids D, Wildcat Lake, Raptor Lake HX  Phoronix