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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...

AMD Releases Updated ROCm 7.0 Preview For HIP Testing

20. Červen 2025 - 11:10
AMD originally released a ROCm 7.0 preview build back in May as it works to align their HIP API more closely with NVIDIA's CUDA. Last month was the big ROCm 7.0 preview announcement form AMD's Advancing AI Day in San Jose while this week is another new 7.0 preview build focused on further testing of the ROCm 7.0 HIP changes...

Intel Cleans Up LLVM/Clang For Misreporting CLDEMOTE On Arrow Lake & Future Hybrid CPUs

20. Červen 2025 - 2:37
Code compilers like the prominent GCC and LLVM/Clang have been advertising support for the Cache Line Demote "CLDEMOTE" instruction on Arrow Lake processors as well as Lunar Lake and upcoming Panther Lake hybrid processors. Intel engineers added that compiler plumbing but was inaccurate and inadvertently missed until now with this prominent instruction not being supported there...

OpenZFS 2.3.3 Released With Linux 6.15 Support

19. Červen 2025 - 19:45
Following last week's release of OpenZFS 2.2.8, OpenZFS 2.3.3 is now available as the newest point release of this current stable series for this open-source ZFS file-system implementation on Linux and FreeBSD systems...

Windows 11 vs. Ubuntu Linux Performance On The AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 "Strix Halo"

19. Červen 2025 - 15:30
While the results shouldn't be too surprising given the recent AMD Ryzen AI Max+ 395 Windows 11 vs. Linux testing, when the HP ZBook Ultra G1a powered by the step-down AMD Ryzen AI Max PRO 390 arrived with Microsoft Windows 11 Pro, I also took the opportunity to run some Windows vs. Linux performance benchmarks on that AMD Strix Halo SoC.

Fwupd 2.0.12 Released With More Intel Battlemage GPUs & HP USB-C Hub Supported

19. Červen 2025 - 14:06
Richard Hughes of Red Hat just released Fwupd 2.0.12 as the newest version of this open-source firmware updating utility that pairs with the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS) for a nice Linux system/device firmware updating experience...

Intel NPU Accelerator Driver Readies "Turbo Mode" For Better Performance

19. Červen 2025 - 13:30
Sent out today was the latest weekly batch of drm-misc-next changes for consisting of various Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) core updates as well as changes to the smaller display/graphics kernel drivers plus the growing work around accelerator "accel" drivers within the kernel. Intel NPU accelerator driver changes stand out for this week's pull request ahead of Linux 6.17...

OpenBLAS 0.3.30 Released With Performance Improvements & Fixes

19. Červen 2025 - 11:45
OpenBLAS 0.3.30 released this morning as the newest version of this optimized BLAS (Basic Linear Algebra Subprograms) library for multiple CPU architectures...

Debian's tag2upload Reaches Open Beta For Enhancing Packaging Workflow

19. Červen 2025 - 11:41
Debian tag2upload reached an open beta state for allowing Debian developers and maintainers to upload by simply using the git-debpush script for pushing a signed Git tag...

Intel Begins Sending In Kernel Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.17

19. Červen 2025 - 11:10
Intel open-source software driver engineers have begun sending in their new kernel graphics driver feature pulls to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.17 merge window coming up by early August. There is some new feature work included as part of Intel's pull requests for the weeks along with more PCI device IDs being introduced, bug fixes, and other code refactoring...