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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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Bash 5.3 Released With Many Improvements

Three years since the Bash 5.2 release and one year since the first alpha release, GNU Bash 5.3 was released overnight as the newest step forward for this popular shell used on Linux and other operating systems...

2025-07-04 06:09

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Perl 5.42 Released With New Operators, Unicode 16 Support, Security Fixes

Perl 5.42 is out today as the newest feature release for this popular programming language that comes one year after the prior Perl 5.40 release...

2025-07-03 19:55

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Fedora Linux Looks To End Support For UEFI On MBR-Paritioned Disks

A proposal raised for Fedora 43 would end support for allowing UEFI installations on MBR-partitioned disks for x86_64 systems in the Anaconda installer. This would enforce a requirement on using GPT partition tables for all UEFI-based Fedora installati...

2025-07-03 16:06

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Intel Lunar Lake Showing Some Performance Improvements With Linux 6.16

For those on an Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Lunar Lake" system, the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel is looking to be in better shape for those newest Intel SoCs. In testing carried out using a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura edition laptop, there are p...

2025-07-03 10:50

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X.Org Server Lands Big Improvement For Using Zink With GLAMOR

A nice improvement was merged today to the X.Org Server for benefiting the GLAMOR 2D acceleration code when using the Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver...

2025-07-03 08:39

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Linux 6.17 To Finish Clearing Out Old Code For OpenMoko Devices

Linux 6.17 is expected to clear out some final remnants of the OpenMoko Neo 1973 and Neo FreeRunner smartphone support from that Linux smartphone effort from two decades ago...

2025-07-03 06:52

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Lenovo Legion Go S HID Driver Posted For Linux

The Linux support for the Lenovo Legion Go S gaming handheld continues to be improved upon thanks to the option of having Steam OS on this alternative to the Steam Deck...

2025-07-03 06:30

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Improved TTM Memory Management Eviction Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.17

Sent out today was the newest drm-misc-next pull request of changes built up over the past week for DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.17 kernel cycle. The drm-misc-next material is the usual random assortment of DRM display/graphics driver changes and core...

2025-07-03 06:12

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Libreboot 25.06 Released With Support For Two More Outdated Systems

Libreboot 25.06 released this week as the newest version of this Coreboot downstream focused on shipping only with free and open-source components. But due to the strict open-source nature of Libreboot, it continues to primarily see support for long ou...

2025-07-03 05:55

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Steam On Linux Usage Dips Slightly For June, AMD Linux CPU Usage Hits 69%

Steam Survey issues prevented the survey results from being posted on the evening of the 1st as is traditionally done, but the results were just uploaded now to the Steam website. Steam on Linux usage dipped slightly but overall remains healthy with mu...

2025-07-02 20:38

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Debian 13 Installer RC2 Fixes An Annoying Issue, Improves Btrfs Rescue Handling

Following last month's release of Debian Installer Trixie RC1 as the installer for the upcoming Debian 13.0 release, a second release candidate was issued today for testing...

2025-07-02 20:28

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ZLUDA Making Progress In 2025 On Bringing CUDA To Non-NVIDIA GPUs

The ZLUDA open-source effort that started off a half-decade ago as a drop-in CUDA implementation for Intel GPUs and then for several years was funded by AMD as a CUDA implementation for Radeon GPUs atop ROCm and then open-sourced but then reverted has ...

2025-07-02 16:01

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AMD Posts Linux Patches For New AI Engine Driver "amd-ai-engine"

Not to be confused with the AMDXDNA accelerator driver for the Ryzen AI NPUs, AMD software engineers today posted patches for review on the "amd-ai-engine" accelerator driver. This new AMD AI Engine driver is for supporting the IP found on their Versal...

2025-07-02 12:07

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Firefox 120 To Firefox 141 Web Browser Benchmarks

For those curious about the direction of Mozilla Firefox web browser performance over the past year and a half, here are web browser benchmarks for every Firefox release from Firefox 120 in November 2023 through the newest Firefox 140 stable and Firefo...

2025-07-02 11:00

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Wayback Hopes To Be Ready Next Year With Alpine Linux Planning To Use It By Default

A few days ago Wayback was announced as an X11 compatibility layer for X11 desktops environments leveraging a rootful XWayland server. While currently experimental, the hope is that it will be production-ready next year and Alpine Linux is looking at u...

2025-07-02 09:56

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Better Late Than Never: Linux 6.17 To Enable Intel DG1 Graphics By Default

Prior to the DG2/Alchemist discrete GPUs from Intel there was the DG1 graphics processor that served primarily as the initial developer vehicle for facilitating Intel's modern discrete GPU push. DG1 ended up being in the Intel Xe MAX GPU for a small nu...

2025-07-02 08:49

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GNOME Papers Document Viewer Approved To Replace Evince In GNOME 49

GNOME Papers has been in development as a modern GTK4-based document viewer. There have been many improvements made to Papers and now ahead of the GNOME 49 release in September, it's been approved to replace Evince as the official document viewer of th...

2025-07-02 06:33

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