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Microsoft Upgrades Its WSL2 Kernel Against Linux 6.18 LTS

Phoronix - Sat, 04/11/2026 - 19:03
Microsoft on Friday released linux-msft-wsl-6.18.20.1 as the Windows Subsystem for Linux 2 (WSL2) kernel updated against the Linux 6.18 LTS series...

Cage 0.3 Released With New Wayland Protocol Support

Phoronix - Sat, 04/11/2026 - 18:38
Cage as the Wayland compositor providing a kiosk mode for single, maximized apps is out with a new feature release more than six months after its prior version...

GNOME-Aligned Amberol 2026.1 Music Player Released, Phosh Improves X11 Support

Phoronix - Sat, 04/11/2026 - 18:23
A few weeks past the GNOME 50 release and there continues to be a lot of ongoing GNOME app activity worth highlighting...

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Google News - Sat, 04/11/2026 - 17:04
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Support For AMD GFX11.7 "RDNA 4m" Pending For RADV & RadeonSI Drivers

Phoronix - Sat, 04/11/2026 - 08:36
Back in February we were the first to report on a new AMD "RDNA 4m" target appearing in the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler. While part of the "RDNA 4" family, it's graphics IP version is GFX 11.7 (GFX1170) that is associated with the RDNA 3 family but with some ISA changes to align it slightly more with the newer RDNA 4 graphics IP. While the RDNA 4m AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler patches have been out for two months, the Mesa patches have only been posted this week for enabling the RADV Vulkan driver and RadeonSI Gallium3D (OpenGL) driver support...

Intel's New Shader Compiler "Jay" Merged For Mesa 26.1

Phoronix - Sat, 04/11/2026 - 04:11
It was just a few days ago that Jay was publicly posted as the new shader compiler in-development for Intel GPUs on Linux for both their ANV Vulkan and Iris Gallium3D drivers. While still very experimental, that initial Jay compiler code was merged today for Mesa 26.1-devel...

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