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RADV Driver Lands VK_EXT_shader_float8 Support

23. Červen 2025 - 11:29
The Mesa Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" is now the first Mesa in-tree driver supporting 8-bit floating point use within shaders via the new VK_EXT_shader_float8 extension...

AMD GFX1250 Support Starts Being Built Up Within LLVM

23. Červen 2025 - 11:00
Over the past three days the new AMD "GFX1250" GPU target has started being built out within the upstream LLVM compiler codebase for the AMDGPU LLVM shader compiler back-end...

IceWM 3.8 Brings New Optimizations & Changes

23. Červen 2025 - 8:00
For those preferring an X11-based desktop experience on Linux, IceWM 3.8 released on Sunday as the newest version of this lightweight X11 window manager focused on speed and simplicity...

Linux 6.16-rc3 Released: Various Bug Fixes While Bcachefs Changes Not Pulled

22. Červen 2025 - 21:52
Linus Torvalds just announced the release of Linux 6.16-rc3 in marching toward the Linux 6.16 kernel release due out around late July...

More Intel TDX Code Merged For KVM In Linux 6.16

22. Červen 2025 - 21:18
Merged minutes ago ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc3 release due out shortly was this week's batch of Kernel-based Virtual Machine (KVM) updates. Beyond the usual KVM fixes merged for the week, a bit of feature code was pulled in by Linus Torvalds for this post-merge-window phase...

Disabling Intel Graphics Security Mitigations Can Boost GPU Compute Performance By 20%

22. Červen 2025 - 14:27
While not talked about as much as the Intel CPU security mitigations, Intel graphics security mitigations have added up over time that if disabling Intel graphics security mitigations for their GPU compute stack for OpenCL and Level Zero can yield a 20% performance boost. Ubuntu maker Canonical in cooperation with Intel is preparing to disable these security mitigations in the Ubuntu packages in order to recoup this lost performance...

3mdeb Carries Out Experimental Port Of AMD OpenSIL To Zen 1 Platform

22. Červen 2025 - 11:55
The 3mdeb firmware consulting firm recently hosted another one of their virtual events about open-source firmware and beer. There they talked about AMD's ongoing work around OpenSIL for open-source CPU silicon initialization. In addition, they shared work on an experimental port of OpenSIL back to Zen 1 processors...

KDE Plasma Remains Committed To A Wayland Future: 70%+ Already On Wayland

21. Červen 2025 - 20:24
Prominent KDE developer Nate Graham put out a blog post today reaffirming the KDE Plasma's intent that Wayland is their main focus and X11 support continues to be maintained but eventually it will go away. Nate Graham also noted around 73% of KDE Plasma 6 users are already using the Wayland session...

Ubuntu 25.10 Planning To Raise RISC-V Support Baseline To RVA23 Profile

21. Červen 2025 - 11:55
Ahead of the all-important Ubuntu 26.04 LTS cycle, Canonical is looking to raise the required RISC-V ISA baseline for its Ubuntu 25.10 release due out later this year...

GNOME Fixes Years-Old Bug Of Trash Not Always Being Properly Emptied

21. Červen 2025 - 11:31
This Week in GNOME is out with its latest issue that outlines some UI progress made as well as addressing an aging GNOME bug that could result in not all files/directories being properly removed when emptying the Trash from the GNOME desktop...

XLibre 25.0 Released As Inaugural Version Of X.Org Server Fork

21. Červen 2025 - 11:18
XLibre 25.0 was just released as the first tagged release of this recent X.Org Server fork...

KDE Plasma 6.4 Is Looking To Be In Good Shape, Fewer Bugs

21. Červen 2025 - 11:04
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly blog post summarizing all of the interesting KDE Plasma developments for the past week. Notable this week was the debut of Plasma 6.4 stable and from early user feedback appears to be in good shape...

AMD Instinct MI350X Series Microcode Upstreamed - Other AMD GPUs See Updates Too

20. Červen 2025 - 21:00
A number of AMD firmware/microcode updates were upstreamed today to the linux-firmware.git repository, including introducing the AMD Instinct MI350 series files that are necessary for the open-source Linux compute driver stack to function for those newly-announced Instinct accelerators...

Intel Continues Working On Linear Address Space Separation "LASS" For Linux

20. Červen 2025 - 18:59
Going back to January of 2023 there were the initial Intel patches for the Linux kernel introducing Linear Address Space Separation (LASS). Two and a half years later, these Intel LASS patches remain in-development with today the sixth iteration of these patches having been posted...

Apple x86 Touch Bar Input & Apple Magic Keyboard USB-C Support In Linux 6.17

20. Červen 2025 - 18:10
Over the past week a number of Apple device support additions have been queued up into the HID subsystem's "for-next" branch ahead of the Linux 6.17 kernel cycle...

Vulkan 1.4.319 Published With New Data Graph Extension

20. Červen 2025 - 15:00
Just one week after Vulkan 1.4.318 was introduced with a new Valve extension, Vulkan 1.4.319 released this morning with another new extension...

Linux Delivering Driver Fix For 30 Year Old Creative SoundBlaster AWE32 ISA Sound Card

20. Červen 2025 - 13:52
Thirty-one years after Creative Technology introduced the Sound Blaster AWE32 ISA-based sound card, the open-source driver support within the Linux kernel continues to be worked on... Submitted today for Linux 6.16 is fixing support for this once mighty ISA sound card from the mid 90's...

Intel's OpenVINO 2025.2 Brings Support For New Models, GenAI Improvements

20. Červen 2025 - 13:35
Intel open-source software developers this week released OpenVINO 2025.2 as the latest update to this prominent free software AI toolkit...

Latest Bcachefs Code Draws Torvalds' Ire Over Late Feature Code

20. Červen 2025 - 11:38
There is some tension on the Linux kernel mailing list with some late Bcachefs feature work sent in as part of "fixes" for the ongoing Linux 6.16 kernel cycle. Established rules aim for only new feature code to be introduced during the kernel merge windows, which ended nearly two weeks ago for Linux 6.16, but Bcachefs wanting to be exempt to continue to allow new feature code to still land for the cycle in the name of data safety...

Microsoft Releases WSL 2.6 As The First Open-Source Release

20. Červen 2025 - 11:22
Microsoft announced back in May at their Build developer conference that WSL would be going open-source. Today Windows Subsystem for Linux 2.6 was released as their first new release now being an open-source project...