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GNOME Glycin Adds XPM/XBM Support To Address Fedora's Last Unsandboxed Image Loader

Phoronix - Sat, 01/03/2026 - 20:01
GNOME's Glycin project as the Rust-based sandboxed and extendable image loading library now supports XPM and XBM images. This is notable since those formats were the last unsandboxed image loading formats used on Fedora Linux...

RADV Driver Lands Another Big Improvement For Early AMD GCN Graphics Cards

Phoronix - Sat, 01/03/2026 - 19:28
Beyond Linux 6.19 switching old AMD GCN 1.0 and 1.1 GPUs to the AMDGPU kernel driver by default for better performance, RADV out-of-the-box, and more, there are still more improvements planned for these aging AMD graphics cards. Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics team has been leading the effort to enhance the old graphics card support and on Friday night merged a big improvement for the RADV Vulkan driver in Mesa 26.0...

KDE Plasma 6.6 Fixes A Common Panel-Related Crash, Improves OpenBSD Support

Phoronix - Sat, 01/03/2026 - 19:13
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with the first issue of This Week in Plasma for 2026. Last week was a warning that This Week in Plasma could become less frequent without new volunteers to help takeover. Nate Graham announced that John Veness has stepped up to help co-author these weekly KDE development posts...

Aeryn OS Continuing To Focus On Tooling & Infrastructure In 2026

Phoronix - Sat, 01/03/2026 - 09:27
The Aeryn OS Linux distribution formerly known as Serpent OS has published a 2025 retrospective to recap the project changes over the past year as well as a look ahead to 2026...

Linux Addressing Out-Of-Memory Killer Inaccuracy On Large Core Count Systems

Phoronix - Sat, 01/03/2026 - 01:50
A patch is on the way to the Linux kernel and looks like it could be ready for the 6.20~7.0 kernel for addressing out-of-memory "OOM" killer inaccuracy behavior when dealing with large core count systems...

New Linux Patches Allow More Easily Changing The Tux Kernel Boot Logo

Phoronix - Fri, 01/02/2026 - 23:30
A new patch series that was posted this week allow for users to more easily replace the default kernel boot logo. While many of us are long accustomed to seeing the picture of Tux as the kernel boot logo, for those preferring to better customize your console boot experience these patches allow it to be easily manipulated via the kernel configuration "Kconfig" options...

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