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A half-year-old merge request from Igalia's Karmjit Mahil has been merged for Mesa 25.0 that is a Vulkan layer allowing for optionally limiting the amount of video memory reported to games/applications...

Merged this week for the Linux 6.14 kernel were the various sound/audio driver updates. In addition to core API enhancements for better supporting the MIDI 2.0 specification, there is also support for some new audio hardware...

New Sound Hardware Supported By The Linux 6.14 Kernel  Phoronix

The RDMA subsystem updates have been merged for the Linux 6.14 kernel with a light set of changes overall and the most significant being support for the ROCEv2 protocol within the ERDMA driver...

Linux 6.14 Adds ROCEv2 Support For The Alibaba Cloud  Phoronix

Solus 4.7 Released with Linux 6.12 LTS, GNOME 47, KDE Plasma 6.2, and Xfce 4.20  9to5Linux

The Shotcut open-source video editor is out with its first new release of 2025...

Shotcut 25.01 Video Editor Adds Native Wayland Support on Flatpak for Linux  9to5Linux

The Intel Media Driver 2024Q4 release was tagged this Saturday as the quarterly update to Intel's open-source Video Acceleration API (VA-API) driver for Linux systems...

The Best Free Software to Install on Ubuntu Right After Setup  How-To Geek

anyon_e is a DIY Linux laptop with an RK3588 processor, OLED display, and custom aluminum chassis  Liliputing

5 of the Best Tools for Syncing Files Between Linux and Windows  How-To Geek

Linux: Zentyal Is the Small Business Server You May Need  The New Stack

ISD is a new open-source project aiming to provide a more "Interactive SystemD" for simplifying management of Linux systems with systemd...

ISD: A New Interactive Way For systemd Management  Phoronix

War Thunder gets BattlEye anti-cheat enabled for Linux  GamingOnLinux

Much Faster Suspend & Resume For Some Systems With Linux 6.14  Phoronix

Alongside the power management and thermal driver updates this week for the ongoing Linux 6.14 kernel cycle were also the ACPI updates. The ACPI pull request was worth calling out on its own thanks to a change that will allow for faster suspend and resume cycles on some systems with this new kernel...

The Last of Us Part I added AMD FSR3.1 Frame Generation and Super Resolution  GamingOnLinux

All of the Human Interface Device (HID) subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.14 merge window...