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IBM Announces Power11 With "99.9999%" Uptime, 55% Better Core Performance Than Power9

Following all of the Linux and broader open-source software enablement around Power11 the past three or so years, IBM today formally announced their new Power11 hardware...

2025-07-08 10:42

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AMD Hardware Feedback Driver Destined For Linux 6.17 To Benefit Heterogeneous CPUs

The AMD Hardware Feedback Driver has been queued up via a TIP branch for expected merging during the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle. This new open-source AMD driver is designed to help make the kernel's scheduler make better decisions around task pla...

2025-07-08 10:23

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Fan Control Firmware Updated For Intel Battlemage Graphics Cards On Linux

In addition to Intel upstreaming the Xe3 graphics firmware needed for upcoming Panther Lake SoCs to linux-firmware.git so those firmware binaries can get picked up by Linux distributions ahead of Panther Lake laptops shipping, Intel also upstreamed fan...

2025-07-08 09:03

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Ardour Digital Audio Workstation Drops GTK+ Option In Favor Of Its "YTK" Fork

The Ardour digital audio workstation (DAW) software has removed its build support for the GTK+ (GTK2) toolkit in favor of now exclusively relying upon "YTK" as its own localized fork of this toolkit...

2025-07-08 06:40

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AMD Merges New RDNA 3.5 iGPU Firmware Files Ahead Of Next Product Launch

Interestingly a batch of new AMD GPU firmware files were upstreamed to linux-firmware.git yesterday in preparing for the next AMD product launch of hardware featuring RDNA 3.5 integrated graphics...

2025-07-08 06:19

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FEX 2507 Brings New Optimizations & Gets Some Ubisoft Games Running

FEX 2507 is now available for this open-source emulator that allows running x86/x86_64 games and applications atop 64-bit ARM Linux devices whether they be AArch64 servers or ARM64 single board computers and other devices...

2025-07-08 05:57

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OBS Studio 31.1 Released With Explicit Sync For PipeWire Screen Capture

OBS Studio 31.1 is now available for those using this cross-platform free software for screencasting and other screen recording purposes. OBS Studio 31.1 is another great step forward for this open-source software that has a devoted following and user-...

2025-07-07 20:18

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U-Boot 2025.07 Brings New Code For Apple M1/M2 & Raspberry Pi, exFAT Support

U-Boot 2025.07 is out today as the newest version of this popular open-source boot loader that is widely-used among embedded devices across different CPU architectures...

2025-07-07 18:36

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Thunderbird 140 Mail Client Debuts As Newest ESR Release

The Thunderbird mail client developers today formally announced Thunderbird 140 as the newest Extended Support Release (ESR) for this cross-platform alternative to Microsoft Outlook...

2025-07-07 16:22

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AMD openSIL PoC Still Being Worked On For Phoenix SoCs, Turin Code Published

One topic we haven't heard AMD talk too much about publicly this year has been their openSIL effort that was announced back in 2023 as their eventual replacement to AGESA and being an open-source CPU silicon initialization effort. They still appear to ...

2025-07-07 11:00

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Lenovo WMI Gaming Series Drivers Expected To Debut In Linux 6.17

Being worked on for a number of months now has been the Lenovo Gaming Series WMI Drivers for Linux to expose additional power/performance settings for Lenovo gaming series hardware like the Lenovo Legion Go S gaming handheld with Steam OS. With the upc...

2025-07-07 10:04

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GNOME 49 Alpha Released With X11 Support Disabled By Default, Many New Features

The GNOME 49 Alpha "49.alpha" release was just announced as the first formal test release in the road to the GNOME 49 desktop release due out in September...

2025-07-07 08:52

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LLVM Clang Merges -mcpu=gb10 Support For NVIDIA GB10 Superchip

Merged today for the LLVM/Clang compiler is -mcpu=gb10 support for catering to NVIDIA's forthcoming Grace Blackwell GB10 Superchip...

2025-07-07 08:06

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LibreOffice Begins Landing Markdown File Import Support

While coming a few weeks too late for making it into the LibreOffice 25.8 open-source office suite release, merged today to LibreOffice Git for next year's LibreOffice 26.2 is adding initial support for importing Markdown files into the LibreOffice Wri...

2025-07-07 06:52

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AMDKFD Kernel Compute Driver Used By ROCm Can Work On LoongArch Hardware

The AMDKFD "Kernel Fusion Driver" used as the Linux kernel GPU compute driver and necessary part of their ROCm compute stack it turns out can build and run on the Chinese-developed LoongArch systems rather easily...

2025-07-07 06:46

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Intel VSEC/PMT Discovery Driver Expected For Linux 6.17 To Enhance Telemetry

With the upcoming Linux 6.17 kernel cycle Intel is further building out their Platform Monitoring Technology (PMT) capabilities with the introduction of a new discovery driver...

2025-07-07 06:39

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Intel Panther Lake Xe3 Integrated Graphics Firmware Upstreamed

As a good sign of the progress being made on the Xe3 integrated graphics Linux support and of the Core Ultra Panther Lake launch approaching, the necessary graphics firmware binaries have now been upstreamed to the linux-firmware.git repository...

2025-07-07 06:09

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TornadoVM 1.1.1 Released For Java Programming Of Heterogeneous Hardware

TornadoVM version 1.1.1 is now available for this OpenJDK and GraalVM plug-in that supports Java offloading to GPUs, FPGAs, and other heterogeneous hardware. The past few years TornadoVM has been making a lot of progress to automatically run Java progr...

2025-07-07 05:52

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Linux 6.16-rc5 Released With A Performance Fix, Bcachefs Fixes & New Device Support

Linus Torvalds just tagged Linux 6.16-rc5 as the newest test release of Linux 6.16...

2025-07-06 17:24

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Wayland 1.24 Released With Few Improvements

Minutes ago Simon Ser announced the official release of Wayland 1.24...

2025-07-06 09:15

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