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NetBSD 11.0 Preparing For Release With Improved Linux Emulation, Better RISC-V Support

NetBSD 11.0 release preparations have begun. The NetBSD developers are hoping to officially release NetBSD 11.0 in October and for that to happen the release candidate would be out in September and daily beta builds can already be tested...

2025-08-04 05:54

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GNOME Mutter 49 Beta Released With Pointer Warp Protocol, Wayland Fixes

The GNOME 49 Mutter beta release is now available for testing ahead of the stable release of GNOME 49 coming up In September...

2025-08-03 15:30

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Intel QuickAssist Hit By Second Demotion In Linux 6.17 Due To Lack Of Kernel Benefit

A few days ago the Intel QuickAssist "QAT" accelerators were demoted by FSCRYPT in the Linux 6.17 development code due to being slow and bug prone with AVX-512 showing to be much faster than leveraging the QAT accelerators in this file encryption frame...

2025-08-03 11:24

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Apple HFS/HFS+ File-System Drivers See Many Fixes In Linux 6.17

Earlier this year there was talk of Linux potentially dropping its Apple HFS and HFS+ file-system drivers as they had been orphaned for a decade and proving to be a maintenance burden. Following that some developers stepped up to better maintain the co...

2025-08-03 09:34

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Corsair HX1200i 2025 Power Supply Monitoring Now Works Under Linux

For those shopping for a high-end desktop power supply for use under Linux and interested in being able to take advantage of sensor monitoring capabilities, the 2025 edition of the Corsair HX1200i PSU can now enjoy working sensor monitoring under Linux...

2025-08-03 06:39

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Compute Express Link Code Further Cleaned Up In Linux 6.17

The Compute Express Link code changes landed this weekend for the Linux 6.17 kernel with development continuing to be quite active around this subsystem for supporting latest and next-generation servers...

2025-08-03 06:20

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Linux 6.17 Getting More Rusty With Many Rust Language Additions

As has been the trend with recent Linux kernel releases, a lot of Rust programming language abstractions and other additions are coming for the in-development Linux 6.17 kernel...

2025-08-02 20:42

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Linux 6.17 Memory Management Optimizations, DAMON_STAT & Other Improvements

All of the memory management "MM" changes were merged this week for the ongoing Linux 6.17 merge window...

2025-08-02 11:50

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GNOME AI Virtual Assistant "Newelle" Reaches Version 1.0 Milestone

Newelle is a virtual AI assistant developed for the GNOME desktop that supports voice chat and can handle carrying out web searches, terminal command execution, website reading, file management, document editing, and more. Newell v1.0 was released this...

2025-08-02 09:13

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Linux 6.17 Enables x86 MacBook Pro Touch Bars, Intel THC Wake-On-Touch

All of the HID subsystem device driver updates have been merged for the Linux 6.17 merge window...

2025-08-02 08:35

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FEX 2508 Delivers Major Speedups For x86_64 Binaries On ARM: 39% Faster Cyberpunk 2077

FEX 2508 as the open-source emulator that allows running x86_64 Linux binaries on AArch64, including the likes of Wine and Valve's Steam Play, is boasting some "big juicy" optimizations with its new release. Many games are now significantly faster atop...

2025-08-02 06:41

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FireWire IEEE-1394 Support Further Refined In Linux 6.17

While Apple removed FireWire support from the upcoming macOS 26 "Tahoe" release, Linux support for the IEEE-1394 standard continues. With the in-development Linux 6.17 there is some modernization work on the FireWire subsystem code with plan still bein...

2025-08-02 06:24

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KDE Plasma 6.5 Finally Adds Automatic Day/Night Theme Switching

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly report on the interesting Plasma desktop changes for the week. This week a long-sought feature for the Plasma desktop was finally merged...

2025-08-02 06:11

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Steam Survey For July Shows Linux Use Approaching 3%

Back in February Steam on Linux was at a 1.45% marketshare, then was corrected to 2.33% for Linux gaming in March, 2.27% for April, a nice jump to 2.69% for Linux gaming in May, and June came in at 2.57% for the Linux gaming population as a percent of ...

2025-08-01 20:28

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Wayback 0.2 Brings More Enhancements For This X11 Compatibility Layer

In time for some weekend testing, Wayback 0.2 is now available for this X11 compatibility layer leveraging Wayland components. Wayback 0.2 remains at an alpha quality state but more functionality is now wired up...

2025-08-01 16:51

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Deferred Unwinder Code Upstreamed For Linux 6.17 On Road To SFrame Support

Linus Torvalds today merged the initial deferred unwinder infrastructure into the Linux 6.17 kernel on the path toward enabling SFrame stack trace format support...

2025-08-01 14:22

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Linux Enablement Begins For Intel Nova Lake - The First "Family 18" CPUs

Today the first Linux kernel patch was posted for Intel's Nova Lake as the anticipated successor to the Intel Core Ultra Series 2 "Arrow Lake" processors. Today's patch confirms that Intel Nova Lake will be the first Intel processors under their new "F...

2025-08-01 12:33

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Attack Vector Controls Land In Linux 6.17 To Better Control CPU Security Mitigations

The Attack Vector Controls work is now in Linux 6.17 for those new tuning knobs worked on by AMD engineer David Kaplan to make it more straight-forward for Linux server administrators and power users to more easily select the CPU security mitigations r...

2025-08-01 12:13

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Vulkan 1.4.324 Adds Experimental AMD Extension To Help With Ray-Tracing

Vulkan 1.4.324 is out today as the first Vulkan API specification update in two weeks with a variety of clarifications/corrections plus a new extension from AMD...

2025-08-01 09:00

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More Intel Driver Maintainer Changes In Linux 6.17

Following the recent Intel driver being orphaned due to layoffs at the company and other Intel Linux engineering changes due to the ongoing restructuring at the company, for the Linux 6.17 kernel there are some additional Intel driver maintainer change...

2025-08-01 08:44

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