Wine 10.9 Released With EGL Support For All Graphics Drivers
Wine 10.9 fell slightly off its bi-weekly Friday release rhythm with only debuting today, but in any event it's now available for testing with the latest features for enjoying Windows games/applications on Linux and other platforms...
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Intel Overclocking Watchdog Driver Merged For Linux 6.16
Merged today for the Linux 6.16 kernel were all of the Watchdog subsystem updates for monitoring system health and taking action such as rebooting if the system state goes bad. With the Linux 6.16 is the introduction of the Intel Overclocking Watchdog "OC WDT" driver...
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Intel engineers are preparing the Linux kernel for future Data Center GPUslxer.com
PorteuX 2.1 Linux distribution is now available for download as one of the first distros to ship with the latest Linux 6.15 kernel series.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Linux 6.15 Shipped With A Nasty Power Regression For Some Systems
The Linux 6.15 kernel that shipped as stable last week mistakenly shipped with a nasty CPU power regression for some systems. The issue is now fixed in Linux 6.16 Git and will be fixed shortly in the Linux 6.15 point releases...
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Linux 6.16 Enables Support For Arm Scalable Matrix Extension "SME"
The Linux kernel had not enabled support for Arm Scalable Matrix Extension (SME) due to bugs, but with the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel those issues have been resolved and so SME can now be enabled for the rare SoCs having said hardware support...
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Apparent Git Scripting Issue Raised Concerns Of Possible Malicious Linux Kernel Activity
The Linux 6.16 merge window this weekend suffered an unexpected twist this weekend when Linus Torvalds noticed some unusual Git activity by a longtime Linux kernel developer. The issue is still being sorted through but it would appear that the possible malicious activity came down to some scripting issues around Git...
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FreeBSD 14.3 RC1 Brings OCI Images To Docker & GitHub
The release candidate of FreeBSD 14.3 is now available for testing ahead of the official operating system release this month...
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Arch-based CachyOS's May 2025 update improves NVIDIA support, deprecates its browser, and updates Proton features.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Alpine Linux 3.22 drops Plasma X11 (Wayland is now the default KDE session), deprecates LXD, and introduces kernel 6.12.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Olimex has recently highlighted a new open-source hardware and software project aimed at creating a €20 smart home server.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
OpenBMC 2.18 released on Friday as the newest version of this Linux Foundation project providing an open-source baseboard management controller (BMC) firmware stack implementationlxer.com
Snapdragon X Elite & AMD's Grado + Strix Halo CPUs Captured Phoronix Reader Interest In May
May was another busy month when it comes to Linux hardware and software milestones albeit depressing when looking at the ongoing state of the web/ad industry. In any event there were 25 featured Linux hardware reviews / multi-page benchmark articles and another 268 original Linux-related news articles all written by your's truly for the month. Here is a lo…
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OpenBMC 2.18 Released With Many More Motherboard Ports Upstreamed
OpenBMC 2.18 released on Friday as the newest version of this Linux Foundation project providing an open-source baseboard management controller (BMC) firmware stack implementation. In recent years OpenBMC has been enjoying increasing success in deploying to server platforms from the mega hyperscalers to the more prominent OEM/ODM vendors seeing increasing customer demand for op…
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WireGuard Easy 15.0, a web-based WireGuard VPN admin, lands with a full rewrite, introducing a sleek UI, IPv6 support, 2FA, CLI, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Linux 6.16 Now Enforces A Minimum Compiler Version Of GCC 8
To compile the Linux x86/x86_64 kernel has already enforced a minimum compiler version of GCC 8 while now with Linux 6.16 this requirement is in place for all other architectures. The GCC 8 and GNU Binutils 2.30 baseline for all Linux kernel architectures now allows removing a number of old workarounds from the codebase...
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Linux 6.16 Enabling Support For 11 More SoCs, Sophgo SG2044 & More Snapdragon X Laptops
All of the big SoC and DeviceTree board updates have been submitted for the Linux 6.16 kernel including support for a number of new Arm SoCs as well as a RISC-V server SoC. Plus many new board additions, including continued work on bettering the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite/Plus laptop support under Linux...
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The CachyOS ISO snapshot for May 2025 is now available for download with better support for NVIDIA GPUs and other changes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
AMD ROCm 7.0 To Align HIP C++ "Even More Closely With CUDA"
In a blog post dated for 28 May that was only made public on Friday night followed by a new ROCm build tag, AMD engineers have begun sharing more details publicly about changes coming for ROCm 7.0. In particular, the HIP 7.0 interface is going to be "aligning HIP C++ even more closely with CUDA."..
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Linux's Trusted Security Manager Sees First Updates In Over A Year
Merged back in late 2023 for Linux 6.7 was a cross-vendor solution for confidential computing attestation reports with the Linux Trusted Security Manager (TSM). In the succeeding kernel releases there weren't any further TSM updates issued but now for Linux 6.16 there finally is renewed work on this confidential computing code...
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CachyOS Improves NVIDIA Driver Loading, Better Handheld Device Support
The popular Arch Linux derived CachyOS operating system that is known for its nice out-of-the-box performance and other optimizations is out with a new build. CachyOS is closing out the month of May with some nice refinements in its newest ISO refresh of the year...
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A Few New Media Drivers Land In Linux 6.16
A few new media drivers have been introduced as part of the Linux 6.16 merge window...
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KDE Plasma 6.5 Will Help Reduce RAM Use By Keeping Less Wallpaper Copies Around
Along with this week bringing the Plasma 6.4 Beta 2 desktop, there's been other changes merged for Plasma 6.4 as well as some early feature work on Plasma 6.5...
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Incus 6.13 is out with Windows agent support, major CLI enhancements, improved migration tools, and dozens of upgrades for containers, VMs, and storage.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
BeagleBoard.org has released an updated revision of the PocketBeagle 2 featuring the Texas Instruments AM6254 processor. The new Rev A1 replaces the earlier AM6232-based Rev A0, offering a significant performance boost with no change in pricing.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
With how well the open-source and upstream AMD Radeon Linux graphics driver stack is these days between the mainline Linux kernel and Mesa, the Radeon Software for Linux packaged driver releases are not usually notable these days on Phoronix..lxer.com
OBS Studio 31.1 enters public beta testing with support for Multitrack Video on Linux and macOS, and numerous other new features and changes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Sandisk earlier this month announced the WD_BLACK SN8100 as what they claim is the current world's fastest PCIe Gen 5.0 NVMe SSD for consumers.lxer.com
Alpine Linux 3.22 distribution is now available for download with GNOME 48, KDE Plasma 6.3, LXQt 2.2, and Linux kernel 6.12 LTS.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Banana Pi has revealed early details about the BPI-R4 Pro, an upcoming router board powered by the MediaTek MT7988A (Filogic 880).Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
Nobara Linux is named after the character Nobara Kugisaki in the anime series Jujutsu Kaisen. The distro's creator is a fan of the character.Larry Cafiero (FOSS Force)
GStreamer 1.26.2 open-source multimedia framework is now available for download with various improvements and bug fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Intel PTC, Intel EAS & AMD Requested CPU Min Freq Features Merged For Linux 6.16
The many power management subsystem updates and related changes have been merged for the in-development Linux 6.16 kernel...
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OpenAI's o3 just uncovered a remote 0-day in the Linux kernel's SMB code—CVE-2025-37899. A patch has already been rolled out.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
GNOME 48.2 desktop environment is now available as the second maintenance update to the latest GNOME 48 desktop environment series.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Intel Prepping Linux Driver For Future Data Center GPUs Based On Battlemage
Intel engineers are preparing the Linux kernel for future Data Center GPUs. This work confirms new Intel Data Center GPUs coming based on Battlemage...
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Alpine Linux 3.22 Replaces Gummiboot With systemd-efistub
Alpine Linux 3.22 is now available as the newest version of this Linux distribution popular for use with containers and embedded purposes due to its small, simple, and secure focus...
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