Linux 6.19-rc2 Adding Support For CRKD Guitar Controllers Most notable with the input subsystem updates sent out today ahead of the Linux 6.19-rc2 release is some new hardware support. New this week is adding support for CRKD Guitars for those into musical gaming/apps...

Linux 6.19-rc2 Adding Support For CRKD Guitar Controllers - Phoronix

Most notable with the input subsystem updates sent out today ahead of the Linux 6.19-rc2 release is some new hardware support

Linux 6.19 Lands Fix For Seagate Barracuda HDD Taking Down The SATA Bus It's not often getting to talk about hard drives on Phoronix these days, but there's an important fix merged to the Linux 6.19 kernel today ahead of Linux 6.19-rc2. If you happen to be using a Seagate ST2000DM008 Barracuda 2TB HDD, an important fix was merged to avoid it taking down the systems' SATA bus and/or potentially other issues...

Linux 6.19 Lands Fix For Seagate Barracuda HDD Taking Down The SATA Bus - Phoronix

It's not often getting to talk about hard drives on Phoronix these days, but there's an important fix merged to the Linux 6.19 kernel tod...

Arch Linux's Main NVIDIA Driver Packages Now Using The Open Kernel Modules With the Arch Linux packages for the NVIDIA official graphics driver moving to the now-stable NVIDIA 590 driver series that drops the GeForce GTX 900 and GTX 1000 series GPU support, Arch Linux users with those old Maxwell and Pascal graphics cards will need to transition to using the NVIDIA legacy driver packages from the Arch Linux AUR. Meanwhile for those o…

Arch Linux's Main NVIDIA Driver Packages Now Using The Open Kernel Modules - Phoronix

With the Arch Linux packages for the NVIDIA official graphics driver moving to the now-stable NVIDIA 590 driver series that drops the GeForce GTX 9...

GNU Debugger 17.1 Released With CET Shadow Stack Support, New DAP Features The GNU Debugger "GDB" 17.1 is out today with a number of new features for enhancing the open-source debugging experience...

GNU Debugger 17.1 Released With CET Shadow Stack Support, New DAP Features - Phoronix

The GNU Debugger 'GDB' 17.1 is out today with a number of new features for enhancing the open-source debugging experience.

Mesa 26.0 NVK Driver Lands Improvement For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 "Turing" GPUs In addition to the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver in Mesa merging compression support for big performance wins, another performance optimization was merged earlier in the week that stand to benefit GeForce RTX 20 "Turing" graphics processors...

Mesa 26.0 NVK Driver Lands Improvement For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 20 "Turing" GPUs - Phoronix

In addition to the open-source NVIDIA 'NVK' Vulkan driver in Mesa merging compression support for big performance wins, another performan...

KDE Plasma 6.6 Finally Supporting Ambient Light Sensors, Fixing Windows Games With HDR There are some nice KDE Plasma 6.6 improvements that were merged ahead of Christmas...

KDE Plasma 6.6 Finally Supporting Ambient Light Sensors, Fixing Windows Games With HDR - Phoronix

There are some nice KDE Plasma 6.6 improvements that were merged ahead of Christmas.

Vulkan 1.4.337 Debuts With Long Vector & 3D ASTC Compression Extensions Vulkan 1.4.337 released a short time ago as what could be the last Vulkan API spec update of 2025 depending upon how much time the working group takes off or not around the holidays. In any case, it's a nice holiday treat with the new VK_EXT_texture_compression_astc_3d and VK_EXT_shader_long_vector extensions...

Vulkan 1.4.337 Debuts With Long Vector & 3D ASTC Compression Extensions - Phoronix

Vulkan 1.4.337 released a short time ago as what could be the last Vulkan API spec update of 2025 depending upon how much time the working group ta...

Linux Foundation Expects To Break $300M In Revenue This Year The Linux Foundation today published their 2025 Annual Report where they offer a glimpse into the finances of the organization for this year...

Linux Foundation Expects To Break $300M In Revenue This Year - Phoronix

The Linux Foundation today published their 2025 Annual Report where they offer a glimpse into the finances of the organization for this year.

Kdenlive 25.12 Video Editor Brings New Docking System, Menu Restructuring In addition to the release this week of OpenShot 3.4, released today is a major update to another popular open-source video editing application: Kdenlive. The Kdenlive 25.12 release brings many improvements to help with editing of any year-end / holiday videos...

Kdenlive 25.12 Video Editor Brings New Docking System, Menu Restructuring - Phoronix

In addition to the release this week of OpenShot 3.4, released today is a major update to another popular open-source video editing application: Kd...

Mesa NVK Driver Merges Compression Support For Better Performance Merged today to the Mesa 26.0-devel code for the open-source NVIDIA "NVK" Vulkan driver is compression support for helping to deliver better performance...

Mesa NVK Driver Merges Compression Support For Better Performance - Phoronix

Merged today to the Mesa 26.0-devel code for the open-source NVIDIA 'NVK' Vulkan driver is compression support for helping to deliver bet...