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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...

Mesa 25.1.4 Delivers Latest Open-Source OpenGL & Vulkan Driver Fixes

19. Červen 2025 - 10:48
Eric Engestrom released Mesa 25.1.4 on Wednesday as the latest bi-weekly point release for this collection of open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers predominantly used on Linux systems...

Godot 4.5 Beta Released With Better Wayland Support

19. Červen 2025 - 1:26
The first beta release of the Godot 4.5 open-source game engine is now available for testing. Notable for Linux users is the continued quest toward Wayland support at parity to X11...

Cache-Aware Scheduling For Linux Refined - Better AMD & Intel CPU Performance

18. Červen 2025 - 20:18
Going on for several months now has been an effort to wire up cache-aware scheduling / load balancing for the Linux kernel for helping out task placement for processors with multiple cache domains such as modern AMD Ryzen/EPYC and Intel Xeon platforms. This cache-aware scheduling has shown much potential for Linux with further enhancing performance on today's interesting CPUs. Out today is the third iteration of cache-aware scheduling with an important rework...

Zed Editor Introduces Built-In Debugger

18. Červen 2025 - 19:05
The Zed Editor remains a popular code editor written in the Rust programming language and providing modern features for this project started by former Atom developers. One of the long sought features for Zed has been having built-in debugger capabilities and that work has finally been merged to the project's codebase...

XWayland 24.1.8 & X.Org Server 21.1.18 Further Address Yesterday's Security Disclosures

18. Červen 2025 - 18:03
Released yesterday were X.Org Server 21.1.17 and XWayland 24.1.7 to address another batch of six security vulnerabilities reported by security researchers. Out today is X.Org Server 21.1.18 and XWayland 24.1.8 in order to further button up one of the security issues reported yesterday...