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Many NGG Improvements Arrive For AMD's Open-Source Linux OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers

Well known AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák has been working on a number of improvements to benefit the Next-Gen Geometry "NGG" support within the RadeonSI and RADV graphics drivers for benefiting modern Radeon GPUs under Linux...

2025-07-06 09:00

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Fedora 43 Looks To Zstd-Compressed Initrd By Default For Space Savings & Faster Boots

A change proposal has been raised to compress the initrd by default using Zstd compression rather than XZ. This change would help provide some disk savings as well as speeding up the boot process on modern systems with Fedora Linux...

2025-07-06 06:44

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Linux 6.16 Performance Regression Tracked Down In New Futex Code

Sent out this morning as part of this week's "locking/urgent" pull request is a performance regression fix ahead of today's Linux 6.16-rc5 release. This latest performance regression in the Linux kernel is around the new Futex code merged this cycle wi...

2025-07-06 06:35

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Many GLAMOR OpenGL ES Improvements Backported To X.Org Server / XWayland 21.1

Nearly one year after the merge request was first opened, back-ported now to the X.Org Server 21.1 stable branch are a number of GLAMOR 2D acceleration fixes around OpenGL ES 2.x as well as supporting OpenGL ES 3.x shaders for this generic 2D accelerat...

2025-07-06 06:26

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Intel Bartlett Lake-S EDAC Driver Support Coming For Linux 6.17

Intel software engineers continue ironing out their Linux support for Bartlett Lake...

2025-07-06 06:16

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Big Improvements For Qualcomm GPU Driver With Linux 6.17 - Especially For Snapdragon X

Sent out today by longtime Freedreno/MSM open-source Qualcomm GPU driver developer Robin Clark are the main set of MSM kernel graphics/display driver updates targeting the upcoming Linux 6.17 merge window. There are several exciting feature additions c...

2025-07-05 20:31

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DXVK 2.7 Released With Many Improvements & Better Support On Newer Intel GPUs

DXVK 2.7 released today as a major feature update for this translation layer for enabling Direct3D 8 / 9 / 10 / 11 based games and applications to run atop the Vulkan API. DXVK is a critical piece of Valve's Steam Play (Proton) software stack for enabl...

2025-07-05 11:45

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SUSE's Agama Installer Switches From X.Org To Wayland For Installation GUI

SUSE developers working on their new operating system installer "Agama" have been making steady progress and on Friday debuted Agama 16. With Agama 16 they have moved from X.Org to Wayland for powering their installer UI along with a number of other ch...

2025-07-05 09:12

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Fedora 43 GNU & LLVM 21 Toolchain Updates Planned

It shouldn't be particularly surprising as Fedora Linux has always been known for shipping with a leading-edge compiler toolchain, but the formalities have now been submitted for Fedora 43 to ship with the latest GNU and LLVM toolchain components...

2025-07-05 09:00

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Intel Wildcat Lake HID Support & Dell + ASUS Additions Ahead Of Linux 6.16-rc5

Ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc5 kernel expected to be released tomorrow, a round of x86 platform driver updates were merged this week with several fixes as well as some new device additions...

2025-07-05 06:41

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GNOME's Glycin Continues Being Built Out, Papers Ready For Document Viewing

It was another exciting week in the GNOME space to kick off July...

2025-07-05 06:27

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KDE Working On New Virtual Keyboard, Many Plasma Improvements Kick Off July

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his usual weekly summary to highlight all of the interesting Plasma desktop developments for the past week...

2025-07-05 06:13

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Coreboot 25.06 Released With Xeon Emerald Rapids Support, Better Panther Lake

Building off Coreboot 25.03 is now the availability of Coreboot 25.06 for further enhancing this open-source system firmware project that continues to see new hardware improvements -- predominantly for Google Chromebook devices but also more Intel plat...

2025-07-04 20:18

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Vulkan 1.4.321 Released With A Handful Of New Extensions

The Vulkan working group is celebrating the US Independence Day with graphics API independence in today publishing Vulkan 1.4.321 that comes with several new extensions...

2025-07-04 19:15

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Bcachefs Fixes Merged For Linux 6.16-rc5

A handful of Bcachefs file-system fixes were submitted yesterday to Linus Torvalds for merging ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc5 release due out on Sunday. Today they were merged...

2025-07-04 14:07

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Rust-Written Redox OS Continues Making Progress With Wayland

The Rust-written Redox OS open-source operating system project just published their June 2025 status report to outline recent progress on this innovative platform...

2025-07-04 11:00

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Acer Nitro Gaming Controller"NGR200" To Be Supported By Linux 6.16

Sent in today for the ongoing Linux 6.16 kernel cycle as part of the input subsystem fixes is enabling support for the Acer Nitro Gaming Controller (NGR200)...

2025-07-04 09:18

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Intel Enables Wildcat Lake Display & Experimental Flip Queue For Linux 6.17 Graphics

Intel today sent out a batch of new kernel graphics/display driver code for queuing ahead of the Linux 6.17 merge window opening in a few weeks. There is now DRM Panic support for the Intel i915 and Xe kernel drivers, Wildcat Lake "WCL" display enablem...

2025-07-04 07:00

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Debian Looks To Attract More Contributors, Eyes Budget For AI/LLM Usage By Debian Developers

The Debian project is hoping to address challenges of mentoring newcomers to contribute to the Debian Linux distribution as well as making it more known that open-source contributors can do more than just work on Debian packaging but that help is neede...

2025-07-04 06:30

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Redis 8.2 Preparing More Performance Optimizations, SVS-VAMANA

The first release candidate of Redis 8.2 is now available for testing of this popular in-memory key-value database. Redis 8.2 is building off the recent Redis 8.0 release that ended up going tri-licensing with the AGPLv3 stemming from developer/communi...

2025-07-04 06:19

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