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In addition to last minute feature work on the latest AMD RDNA4 graphics cards ahead of the Mesa 25.2 code branching, there's also some new fixes going into Mesa for the open-source Radeon driver code... Coming in this Monday morning by surprise are some fixes for the Radeon HD 2000/3000 series approaching two decades old as well as a fix for the Radeon HD 4000 graphics processors...

Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 code branching / feature freeze expected later this week, last minute feature additions and other changes continue landing in the codebase for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. One of the additions today worth mentioning are continued Vulkan Video improvements for AMD Radeon graphics...

RADV Vulkan Video Improvements Make It Into Mesa 25.2 For AMD RDNA4 GPUs  Phoronix

One of the interesting new additions with the upcoming Intel Xe3 integrated and discrete graphics is the Variable Register Thread "VRT" feature. Making use of Variable Register Thread can reduce register splitting, reduce bandwidth consumption, and improve overall performance. More background information on Intel VRT can be found in that aforelinked Phoronix article. But now the ability is coming to optionally disable VRT...

LMDE 7 Will Follow Linux Mint 22.2  Phoronix

The Linux Mint developers have put out their monthly status update to outline their work in recent weeks. Over the course of June, Linux Mint developers were primarily focused on Linux Mint 22.2 with the beta release expected soon...

Debian's annual Debian Conference "DebConf" started this morning and runs all week in Brest, France...

edForce, Linux Foundation Join Hands for Open-Source Training  Asia Business Outlook

Open source Medal of Honor: Allied Assault adds better bots and a new master server for online play  GamingOnLinux

Split-screen game launcher for Linux / SteamOS adds support for multiple keyboards and mice  GamingOnLinux

System76 reveal the new Adder WS laptop, their "most affordable" powerhouse  GamingOnLinux

edForce partners with Linux Foundation APAC to accelerate enterprise open-source upskilling in India  CRN - India

GE-Proton 10-9 released with NTSYNC and FSR4 upgrade support  GamingOnLinux

Linux 6.16-rc6 is back on track after Linus Torvalds squashed a nasty bug  Neowin

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The Restart Project releases the "End of Windows 10 toolkit" to help communities move over to Linux  XDA

9to5Linux Weekly Roundup: July 13th, 2025  9to5Linux

As we approach the stable Linux 6.16 kernel release later this month, Linux 6.16-rc6 is out today as the newest weekly test candidate...

Linux 6.16-rc6 Released With Transient Scheduler Attacks Mitigations, AMD Zen 2 Fixes  Phoronix

I dual-booted Linux to try it out, and I forgot I had Windows installed  XDA