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AMD's GAIA Defaults To Better Model, Continued Improvements For Local AI  Phoronix

Merged on Friday ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc2 kernel release due out tomorrow were this week's batch of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics / display / accelerator driver fixes...

Linux 7.1-rc2 Bringing Some More Improvements/Fixes For Older AMD GPUs  Phoronix

CISA adds Linux Copy Fail flaw to exploited bug list  Bitget

KDE Linux continues making progress as the in-house Linux distribution to best showcase the latest KDE Plasma desktop innovations...

KDE Linux Now Using KMSCON For A Better VT Console Experience  Phoronix

5 more lightweight Linux distros that go easy on your old Windows PC  How-To Geek

Ubuntu’s Official Flavour List Is Shrinking, And That’s Not a Bad Thing  It's FOSS

AMD Finally Cracks HDMI 2.1 On Linux After Years Of Forum Lockout, Thanks To Valve’s Quiet Push  Wccftech

Linux just made 8GB VRAM feel like enough for the Steam Machine  XDA

Steam Survey for April 2026 shows Linux still trending well  GamingOnLinux

AMD preps "full" HDMI 2.1 implementation for Linux  OC3D

Raspberry Pi is still cheap, but it's no longer the smartest choice for a first Linux project  MakeUseOf

AMD Readies Full Open-Source HDMI 2.1 Support for Linux  TechPowerUp

Your high-end PC probably can't run Qubes OS—here's why  How-To Geek

Microsoft, CISA warn on flaw affecting miilions of systems running major Linux distros  Neowin

While the Alliance For Open Media had been aiming for the AV2 release by the end of 2025, as of right now the AV2 specification remains in a draft status. VideoLAN developers though for months have already been working on dav2d as an open-source AV2 decoder and that code was published this weekend...

Following last year's release of FreeBSD 15.0, FreeBSD 15.1 is working its way toward release release in June. For kicking off the release dance, FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 1 is available today for testing...

NVIDIA on Friday released the 595.44.06 beta driver build as their newest Vulkan developer beta for Linux. This was joined by the NVIDIA 595.46 Windows Vulkan beta and there are performance improvements in tow and more work on their descriptor heaps support...

NVIDIA Ships Fixes For Descriptor Heaps, More Vulkan Performance Optimizations  Phoronix