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A new feature that appears ready for introduction in the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle is revocable resource management...

Support for newer HDMI features in the open-source AMD Linux graphics driver have been limited due to being blocked by the HDMI Forum. There are though some new HDMI gaming features being enabled via new AMDGPU kernel driver patches that are coming outside of AMD and based on public knowledge and/or "trying things out until they work/break" for functionality like HDMI Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) and Auto Low Latency Mode...

There have been a number of nice RADV driver Vulkan ray-tracing performance optimizations for Mesa in recent times... Here is yet another merge request now merged for Mesa 26.0 and helping deliver some nice performance uplift for ray-traced games on Linux. And, yes, this is yet another Valve contribution to this open-source AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver...

Following last week's updated Intel LLM-Scaler-vLLM release for helping advance vLLM usage on Intel Arc Graphics, LLM Scaler Omni is out with a new release today for that LLM-Scaler environment focused on image / voice / video generation using Omni Studio and Omni Serving modes...

Myrlyn 1.0 was released today as the package manager GUI developed by SUSE engineers and started out just over one year ago during a SUSE Hack Week event as a SUSE/Qt package manager program not dependent upon YaST or Ruby...

For those organizations on the Software Bill of Materials (SBOM) bandwagon for increasing transparency around software components with license compliance, vulnerability management, and securing the software supply chain, proposed patches to the Linux kernel would introduce an SPDX SBOM Generation Tool...

Linus Torvalds just tagged the Linux 6.19-rc6 kernel in working toward the stable Linux 6.19 kernel release likely on 8 February...

Pravidelná pondělní dávka bezpečnostních novinek a varování. Podíváme se na kritickou zranitelnost u bluetoothových sluchátek, první Patch Tuesday roku 2026, botnet Kimwolf a využití Starlinku v Íránu.

Prostředí Budgie přechází z X11 na Wayland. Canonical představil Minimal Ubuntu Pro – nové minimalistické obrazy s podnikovým zabezpečením a dlouhodobou podporou. Projekt KDE vydal beta verzi KDE Plasma 6.6.

ReactOS as the long-in-development "open-source Windows" project has been on quite a roll recently. Beyond a big Windows NT 6 compatibility improvement and fixing a very annoying usability issue, for this third week of the year there is another big change landing: a significant improvement in networking performance on ReactOS...

Ahead of the Linux 6.19-rc6 kernel release due out later today are two USB fixes for Apple M1 / M2 Macs running the mainline kernel. These Apple USB fixes are also marked for back-porting to the stable Linux kernel series...

With the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle, the HP-WMI driver is slated to add manual fan control support for HP Victus S-Series gaming laptops as well as for some HP OMEN gaming laptops too...

The intel-speed-select tool that lives within the Linux kernel source tree for allowing some control over Intel Speed Select Technology (SST) and managing of clock frequencies / performance behavior will finally allow limited non-root usage...

A new BSD on the block is ChaosBSD that intends to serve as a testing distribution for unfinished and broken drivers not suitable for upstreaming to FreeBSD proper...

With the Linux 6.19-rc6 kernel release due out later today there will be a number of sound fixes/workarounds to note from the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X gaming handheld to several newer laptops seeing fixes for their audio support...

Synex is a Linux distribution that's been around for some months as a Debian-based, minimalistic Linux distribution out of Argentina focused on the needs of small and medium businesses. Making it a bit more intriguing for some now is that with their new release based on Debian 13 is a server edition and they have added native OpenZFS file-system support for new installations...

Ovladač pro Thinkpady dostává nahlašování vadných komponent, KDE už připravuje Plasmu 6.7, GNOME a konec X11, instalátor Adobe Photoshopu 2025 na Linuxu, lepší podpora pro GPU a next-gen produkty Intel v jádru Linux 7.0.

On Friday AMD sent out another set of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver and AMDKFD kernel compute driver patches for queuing in DRM-Next ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle kicking off in February...

FreeBSD 15.0 had been aiming to offer a KDE desktop installation option as part of the FreeBSD OS installer. This initiative as part of the FreeBSD laptop support enhancements project didn't pan out in time for FreeBSD 15.0 but now they are working on getting the installer option ready for FreeBSD 15.1. Adding a NVIDIA GPU driver option to the FreeBSD installer was also recently carried out...

CVE-2026-0915 was published on Friday as a security issue with the GNU C Library "glibc" for code introduced 30 years ago. The latest Glibc Git code is now patched for this issue introduced in 1996...