Open-source News

KDE KWin Patches Aiming To Optimize Gaming Latency To Better Compete With Windows  Phoronix

Open-source developer Jakub Okoński has been working on comparing the gaming latency between Linux and Windows and in turn working to drive some improvements into KDE's KWin Wayland compositor so the latency is more competitive with the gaming experience under Microsoft Windows 11...

The linux-firmware.git repository that serves as the de facto home of all the binary blobs used by the mainline Linux kernel open-source drivers has now introduced AGENTS.md documentation and other preparations for embracing AI coding agents...

While not as exciting as features like HDMI 2.1 FRL and Display Stream Compression itself, as part of AMD's efforts to provide a fully open-source HDMI 2.1 driver implementation for AMDGPU, new code is being prepped for their kernel driver to support the HDMI compliance testing efforts...

AMDGPU Linux Driver Preps For HDMI 2.1 Compliance Testing  Phoronix

Cave Story+ 2026 major update out now - Native Linux version dropped  GamingOnLinux

Among the Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) work being queued ahead of the upcoming Linux 7.2 merge window are preparations for supporting Advanced Performance Extensions within KVM virtual machines...

Linux's KVM Preps For APX Support In VMs  Phoronix

Initially introduced in RDNA3 (GFX11) GPUs is INST_PREF_SIZE to specify the number of instruction bytes to prefetch prior to a wavefront beginning execution. The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is now making use of this feature in RDNA3/RDNA4 GPUs for better instruction cache prefetching...

RADV Driver Now Leveraging RDNA3+ Hardware Feature For Better Instruction Cache Prefetching  Phoronix

Budget Linux or premium Android? TRIMUI's upcoming Brick handheld lineup gives you two options  Android Authority

AORUS RTX 5060 Ti AI Box: Portable eGPUs Are So Hot Right Now  Tedium.co

Alpine Linux 3.24 released with support for COSMIC Desktop and other improvements  Neowin

Made public today is CVE-2025-10263 as a "critical" security vulnerability affecting many different Arm CPU cores. CVE-2025-10263 could allow for privilege escalation on affected systems due to a specific timing condition during a memory permission change. Fundamentally it comes down to completion of affected memory accesses might not be guaranteed by the completion of a TLBI...

Linux Sees Patches For "Critical" Vulnerability Affecting Many Arm CPUs  Phoronix

Alpine Linux 3.24 Released with GNOME 50, KDE Plasma 6.6, and COSMIC Desktops  9to5Linux

Alpine Linux 3.24 Brings COSMIC Desktop to Its Community Repository  Linuxiac

Alpine Linux, the Linux distribution popular especially for containers / micro-services and embedded devices, is out with its newest feature release...

How AI and Linux devs are keeping old AMD Radeon cards alive  MakeUseOf

Microsoft's new Linux utilities for Windows are missing the point—here's why WSL wins  How-To Geek