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Lutris 0.5.20 Linux Game Manager Brings New Features, Wine Wayland Option

16. Únor 2026 - 21:23
For fans of Lutris as the open-source desktop client for installing and playing many games on Linux, Lutris 0.5.20 is out today with new features that further enhance the integration with different emulators and compatibility layers...

RISC-V In Linux 7.0 Brings User-Space CFI & Optimized strlen Assembly

16. Únor 2026 - 20:05
The RISC-V architecture updates have been merged for Linux 7.0 with a few items to note...

Linux 7.0 Driver Core Changes Bring More Enhancements For Rust Kernel Drivers

16. Únor 2026 - 18:39
Merged a few days ago for the Linux 7.0 kernel were all of the driver core enhancements. As has been the common theme in recent kernel releases, a lot of the driver core code churn revolves around additions for allowing more Rust kernel driver usage...

Linux 6.19.2 & Other LTS Kernels Released To Fix Systems Not Booting

16. Únor 2026 - 17:29
Linux 6.19.1 was released earlier today while it's since been replaced by Linux 6.19.2 to address fallout from that first point release with some systems not booting. This also resulted in new LTS kernel releases too due to the problematic code being picked up there too...

Linux 7.0 Better Segregates Legacy CardBus Code To Avoid On Modern PCs

16. Únor 2026 - 15:16
The PCI subsystem updates for Linux 7.0 are aplenty as usual and contain a wide assortment of different fixes and code improvements...

Firmware Upstreamed For Supporting The Qualcomm Snapdragon X2's Adreno GPU

16. Únor 2026 - 13:35
Upstreamed last week to the linux-firmware.git repository by Qualcomm was the GPU firmware files needed for enabling the Adreno GPU on the new Snapdragon X2 Elite laptop SoC...

OpenRISC With Linux 7.0 Improves Out-Of-The-Box Support For More FPGA Dev Boards

16. Únor 2026 - 12:35
While the OpenRISC project began ten years before RISC-V was started, it hasn't enjoyed the hardware ecosystem successes of the latter but still the upstream Linux kernel support continues moving forward and the ability to run OpenRISC on FPGA developer boards...

InputPlumber 0.74 Released With Hardware Support Improvements

16. Únor 2026 - 12:20
InputPlumber 0.74 is now available for this open-source input routing and control daemon for Linux systems. InputPlumber enables combining of multiple input devices, emulating different inputs, and a variety of other features particularly of benefit for Linux gaming...

Linux 6.19.1 Released To Ship Some Early Fixes & Device Quirks

16. Únor 2026 - 12:10
For those preferring to wait for the first point release of a new Linux kernel version before upgrading, Linux 6.19.1 is out today to address some early bugs that made it into the Linux 6.19 kernel stable release one week ago...

Linux 7.0 Merges The Code To Replace The Tux Boot Logo At Build Time

16. Únor 2026 - 2:24
Linus Torvalds merged the code this weekend that allows easily replacing the Tux penguin boot logo used during the boot process. This new code optionally allows specifying an alternative boot logo at compile/build time...

exFAT Achieves Better Sequential Read Performance With Linux 7.0

16. Únor 2026 - 0:15
The open-source Linux file-system driver for supporting Microsoft's exFAT now can deliver better sequential read performance with Linux 7.0 thanks to multi-cluster support...

wlroots 0.20 Nears Release With New Protocols, Enhanced Vulkan Renderer

15. Únor 2026 - 20:17
Version 0.20 of the popular wlroots Wayland support library is nearing its official release. Over the past week were two release candidates for wlroots 0.20 were published for this library used by Sway, Wayfire, Cage, Gamescope, and numerous other Wayland compositors...

Linux Kernel Improvement Can Make Hibernation Several Times Faster With Slow SSDs

15. Únor 2026 - 12:48
A patch series sent out for review this weekend can significantly improve the system hibernation performance under Linux. Particularly for those with slower SSDs, the patches can make Linux hibernate up to several times faster...

Mesa's KosmicKrisp Vulkan-On-Metal Achieves MoltenVK Feature Parity

15. Únor 2026 - 12:34
Announced last year by consulting firm LunarG was KosmicKrisp as a Vulkan-on-Metal driver for efficiently leveraging the Vulkan API on Apple macOS systems as an alternative to the MoltenVK project. KosmicKrisp was upstreamed for Mesa 26.0 and continues making great progress for opening up more Vulkan possibilities in Apple's world...

NFS Server Adds Dynamic Thread Pool Sizing In Linux 7.0

15. Únor 2026 - 12:20
The NFS server changes for Linux 7.0 happen to include some nice improvements for this big kernel version number release...

Power Sequencing Driver For PCIe M.2 Connectors Makes It Into Linux 7.0

15. Únor 2026 - 12:07
The power sequencing subsystem updates have been merged for the Linux 7.0 cycle. Typically not an area of the kernel too exciting but one new driver addition is the "pwrseq-pcie-m2" to provide power sequencing for PCIe M.2 connectors...

F2FS Delivers "Several Key Performance Optimizations" With Linux 7.0

15. Únor 2026 - 2:26
The Flash Friendly File-System (F2FS) has multiple performance improvements to provide its users with on the in-development Linux 7.0 kernel...

X.Org Server's "Master" Branch Now Closed With Cleaned Up State On "Main"

14. Únor 2026 - 23:47
This Valentine's Day there is a lot of red on the screen for the X.Org Server with the code delta as a result of renaming of their main Git development branch and in the process selectively dropping questionable patches to the prior "master" codebase...

Vim 9.2 Released With Experimental Wayland Support, Better HiDPI Display Support

14. Únor 2026 - 21:28
Vim 9.2 is out today as the newest feature release for this robust and comprehensive text editor. This Valentine's Day release for Vim lovers brings experimental Wayland support, XDG Base Directory specification support, modernized defaults for HiDPI displays, new completion features, and an improved diff mode...

Linux 7.0 Merges Support For Rock Band 4 PS4 / PS5 Guitars Plus More Laptop Quirks

14. Únor 2026 - 17:45
The HID subsystem changes were merged this week for the ongoing Linux 7.0 kernel merge window. Among the Human Interface Devices (HID) work this cycle were supporting more guitars while also adding more device IDs and different laptop quirks...