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Open-source developers are working on allowing the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver to support the "Cyan Skillfish" graphics processor IP found within the Sony PlayStation 5 APU as well as the AMD BC-250 mining cards...

Ubuntu-Based Rhino Linux 2025.1 Is Out with Linux 6.12, Rhino Stampede, and More  info-mods.com

Kodi 21.2 Brings Enhanced Stability and Fixes  info-mods.com

How to Upgrade to Linux Mint 22.1 from Mint 22  info-mods.com

Beyond Ubuntu: Other Linux Distributions You Should Try  The New Stack

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Arrives For Linux Testing  Phoronix

Earlier this month at CES was the announcement of the GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" series. Among the first of these consumer Blackwell GPUs is the GeForce RTX 5090 flagship graphics card that is set to retail for $1999 USD. The NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5090 Founder's Edition graphics card arrived at Phoronix a few days ago to begin Linux testing.

The Linux 6.14 kernel will enable the VirtualBox guest drivers to be built for ARM64 Linux virtual machines (VMs)...

Linux 6.14 To Allow VirtualBox Guest Support On ARM64 VMs  Phoronix

Linux kernel 6.13: Filesystem upgrades, Rust boost, and more  Developer News

StreamUnlimited Introduces Multi-Stream Audio and StreamSDK Lite, Powered by StreamSDK in a Linux container  PR Newswire

StreamUnlimited Introduces Multi-Stream Audio and StreamSDK Lite, Powered by StreamSDK in a Linux container  Yahoo Finance

StreamUnlimited Introduces Multi-Stream Audio and StreamSDK Lite, Powered by StreamSDK in a Linux container  WV News

Fwupd 2.0.4 Linux Firmware Updater Released with New Features and Bug Fixes  9to5Linux

For the Linux 6.13 cycle the Rust code was hitting a "tipping point" with more Rust kernel drivers expected soon. For Linux 6.14 there is indeed a lot more Rust code being primed for this next kernel version...

More Rust Code Is Coming For Linux 6.14 Along With Hitting Another "Major Milestone"  Phoronix

Intel software engineers overnight published their new quarterly release of the Intel FFmpeg Cartwheel, the collection of the company's patches against this open-source multimedia library for enhancing the Intel GPU acceleration support while the patches work their way for upstream FFmpeg...

Ingo Molnar sent out the big batch of scheduler enhancements bright and early today for helping kick off the start of the Linux 6.14 merge window...

The "TURNIP" open-source Vulkan API driver within Mesa for supporting Qualcomm Adreno graphics is now able to expose accelerated ray query support for ray-tracing with newer Adreno GPUs...

Among the VFS pull requests sent out this weekend in advance of the Linux 6.14 merge window formally opening were the VFS direct I/O (DIO) updates that introduce a new STATX_DIO_READ_ALIGN field for addressing a possible performance pitfall...