GCC 15.2 Released With More Than 123 Bugs Fixed Following the release of GCC 15.1 at the end of April as the first stable version of the GCC 15 compiler, GCC 15.2 is now available with a variety of bug fixes back-ported... image
Mesa 25.2 Released With Many Improvements For RADV, Intel & NVK Drivers Mesa 25.2 is now available as the newest quarterly feature release for this set of open-source Linux graphics drivers predominantly for OpenGL, Vulkan, and video acceleration support on the Linux desktop... image
AlmaLinux Introduces Native NVIDIA Support Using Open-Source Kernel Driver The AlmaLinux project announced today that there is now "native" NVIDIA graphics driver support for AlmaLinux 10 and AlmaLinux 9 using NVIDIA's open-source kernel modules that are now conveniently packaged in an AlmaLinux repository for easy usage complete with NVIDIA's closed-source user-space packages like CUDA... image
Btrfs Sees Urgent Fix Following Recent Reports Of Log Tree Corruption On Linux 6.15.3+ there have been increased reports of log tree corruption being hit by users of the Btrfs file-system. Fortunately, a fix has now been submitted for Linux 6.17 Git and then for back-porting to the recent stable kernel versions... image
Valve's ACO Compiler Used By AMD Drivers Optimize Scheduling Heuristic For Newer GPUs Merged today for Mesa 25.3-devel to benefit the RADV Vulkan and RadeonSI Gallium3D AMD drivers are improved scheduling heuristics for the ACO compiler back-end developed by Valve... image
openSUSE Leap 16.0 Enters RC Phase With New Installer, Xfce On Wayland Option Working toward the stable openSUSE Leap 16.0 release in late 2025, the release candidate period has begun for this Linux distribution aligned with SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 sources... image
Mesa NVK Driver Now Exposes Vulkan 1.4 For NVIDIA GeForce RTX 50 "Blackwell" GPUs Merged a short time ago to Mesa 25.3-devel Git and marked for back-porting to the Mesa 25.2 series is advertising Vulkan 1.4 conformance for NVIDIA's latest Blackwell GPUs... image
NVIDIA 580 Beta Linux Driver Brings Fixes, Wayland fifo-v1 Support With Vulkan NVIDIA today published the v580.65.06 as their first beta driver version in the new NVIDIA 580 Linux driver series... image
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... image
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... image