Intel's Lead Engineer For Linux Performance Monitoring Is Leaving The Company This morning while finishing up work on the concerning Intel open-source comments from Intel Tech Tour in Arizona and summing up the declining open-source contributions and departures of numerous Intel open-source/Linux developers from the company, yet another Linux engineering departure crossed my wire... image
OpenGL Mesh Shader Extension Merged Proposed last year was GL_EXT_mesh_shader as a cross-vendor mesh shading extension. That OpenGL mesh shader work led by an AMD engineer was merged today into the OpenGL Registry... image
Blender 5.0 Beta Builds Available Ahead Of Next Month's Official Release Beta builds of the Blender 5.0 3D modeling software are now available ahead of the planned stable release in mid-November... image
GCC 16 Compiler Shifting To "Stage 3" Development Next Month The GNU Compiler Collection will be shifting to its "stage three" development in November as focusing more on bug fixing now and new ports and less on existing compiler functionality/features... image
Python 3.14 Released With Performance Improvements, Free-Threading & Zstd Python 3.14 is now available as the newest annual major feature release for the Python programming language... image
The Many Memory Management Improvements In Linux 6.18 The many memory management "MM" changes were recently merged into the Linux 6.18 kernel, consisting of a number of interesting patch series... image
Qt 6.10 Released With PipeWire Audio Backend & Many Other Improvements Qt 6.10 is now available as the latest feature update to this open-source and cross-platform toolkit... image
Ubuntu 25.10 Delivering Some Nice Performance Gains For Intel Core Ultra "Lunar Lake" Ubuntu 25.10 is looking quite nice in the performance department ahead of its official release later this week. On various systems tested thus far, Ubuntu 25.10 is delivering nice gains over Ubuntu 25.04 and compared to the current Ubuntu 24.04 LTS. The latest Ubuntu 25.10 benchmarking at Phoronix is looking at the Intel Core Ultra Lunar Lake performance … image
Many Networking Performance Improvements & New Hardware In Linux 6.18 The networking subsytem updates for Linux 6.18 have been merged. There is a lot of enticing performance optimizations in different areas of the networking stack for this new kernel. Plus new wired and wireless networking hardware support and other improvements to get excited about for this LTS kernel version... image
Linux 6.18 DRM Pull Include New Tyr & Rocket Drivers, More AMD & Intel GPU Enhancements The Direct Rendering Manager "DRM" pull request ended up leading to Linus Torvalds complaining over text and Rust code formatting but in the end he pulled all of these kernel graphics driver updates and also the associated "accel" accelerator subsystem drivers too... image