Btrfs Sees Minor Performance Optimizations With Linux 6.12 The Btrfs file-system continues marching ahead with the Linux 6.12 kernel... image
Mir 2.18 Released With Wayland Server-Side Decorations Canonical today shipped Mir 2.18 as the latest version of this set of open-source libraries for assembly Wayland-based shells. Mir 2.18 brings a number of new features including Wayland server-side decorations... image
AMD Publishes RDNA 3.5 ISA Documentation AMD today made public their RDNA 3.5 instruction set architecture (ISA) programming guide for these updated RDNA3 graphics found within new Ryzen AI 300 "Strix Point" APUs thus far... image
Linux 6.11 Features Many Exciting Updates For AMD Hardware & More It's expected to be the Linux 6.11 release day! We are just hours away from hopefully seeing Linux 6.11 stable christened as the kernel set to power the likes of Ubuntu 24.10 and Fedora 41. Here's a reminder of some of the most interesting new features and changes to look forward to with Linux 6.11... image
AMD GPU Linux Driver Becoming "Really Really Big" That It's Starting To Cause Problems The modern AMD kernel graphics driver "AMDGPU" is the biggest driver within the mainline Linux kernel and is approaching six million lines of code albeit a large chunk of that is made up of auto-generated header files for each supported GPU. But this AMDGPU kernel driver is becoming "really really big" that it's beginning to cause issues for Plymouth … image
Many ACPI Updates Head To The Linux 6.12 Kernel Ahead of the expected Linux 6.11 stable release today and the Linux Kernel Maintainer Summit happening this coming week in Vienna, Intel engineer Rafael Wysocki submitted early the ACPI updates among the other areas of the kernel he oversees as part of the imminent Linux 6.12 merge window... image
Ubuntu Developers Begin Working On Snapdragon X1 Elite Support With the mainline Linux kernel beginning to see DeviceTree support for a few Snapdragon X1 powered laptops like the ASUS Vivobook S15 and Lenovo Yoga Slim7x, Ubuntu developers at Canonical appear to be beginning their exploration around supporting some of the Snapdragon X1 hardware with Ubuntu Linux... image
Fedora 42 On 64-bit ARM Might Make It Seamless To Run x86/x86_64 Programs As one of the early feature proposals for Fedora 42, there is a proposal being considered to make for a nice out-of-the-box experience running x86/x86_64 game/application binaries atop Fedora 42 AArch64 hosts... image
Fedora 42 Will Try Again To Use The New Anaconda Installer's Web UI With Fedora 41 working its way to release toward the end of October, some early feature/change proposals for Fedora 42 are being filed for what will be the Fedora Linux release out next spring... image
KDE Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 Brings New Capabilities Plasma Wayland Protocols 1.14 is out today for providing the set of Wayland protocol XML files for currently non-standard protocols that are relied upon by the Plasma desktop with KWin compositor... image