Linux 6.16-rc6 Released With Transient Scheduler Attacks Mitigations, AMD Zen 2 Fixes
As we approach the stable Linux 6.16 kernel release later this month, Linux 6.16-rc6 is out today as the newest weekly test candidate...
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Ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc6 kernel release due out later today, an x86/urgent pull request was sent out today that includes some fixes for old AMD Zen 2 hardware.lxer.com
The CachyOS ISO snapshot for July 2025 is now available for download with a long-awaited requested feature and other improvements.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
CachyOS July 2025 Ships With Mesa Patched For Anti-Lag, Plasma Defaulting To Wayland
The popular Arch Linux based CachyOS operating system is out with its "July 2025" update for providing the latest innovations for this performance-optimized, feature-rich Linux distribution...
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The popular Arch Linux based CachyOS operating system is out with its 'July 2025' update for providing the latest innovations for this performance-optimized, feature-rich Linux distribution.www.phoronix.com
Linux 6.16 Ready With Fixes For Old AMD Hardware "Which Wasn't Even Supposed To Run Linux"
Ahead of the Linux 6.16-rc6 kernel release due out later today, an x86/urgent pull request was sent out today that includes some fixes for old AMD Zen 2 hardware...
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Comment: Many don't realize or forget, but the FOSS world has ideological wings, tooLiam Proven (The Register)
AMD NGG Improvements Make It Into Mesa 25.2 Ahead Of Next Week's Code Branching
Last week I wrote about a number of patches coming out of AMD for Next-Gen Geometry "NGG" improvements to the AMD OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for Linux. Some of that code hadn't been merged as of writing but fortunately this week the remainder of the NGG improvements were successfully merged to Mesa Git for this quarter's Mesa 25.2 release...
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Last week I wrote about a number of patches coming out of AMD for Next-Gen Geometry 'NGG' improvements to the AMD OpenGL and Vulkan drivers for Linuxwww.phoronix.com
Another Longtime Intel Linux Engineer Leaves The Company
Amid Intel's ongoing financial difficulties and multiple rounds of layoffs some Linux engineers at Intel left last year and there's been at least one prominent departure this week amid the latest round of challenges at the company...
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Haiku OS Sees Work On Better App HiDPI Scaling, Better Intel WiFI Driver From OpenBSD
The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS had a busy month of June with a number of enhancements made to this OS. Haiku just published their convenient monthly recap that highlights all of the interesting changes made the past month to this open-source OS...
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GStreamer 1.27.1 Release Brings AMD HIP Plugin & Better Vulkan Video
GStreamer 1.27.1 released this week as the first development version toward the GStreamer 1.28 release coming later in the year. GStreamer 1.27/1.28 is bringing a lot of modern feature enhancements for this widely-used multimedia library...
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KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development recap of all interesting things and fixes merged for the week to Plasma.lxer.com
With the upcoming Ubuntu 25.10 release, Canonical plans to achieve a fully functional desktop session on the RISC-V architecture.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
Calibre 8.6 open-source e-book manager now defaults to AZW3 for Kindle, retires MOBI, and boosts database restore speeds.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
NVIDIA software engineers ended out the week by releasing a new beta of their RTX Neural Texture Compression (NTC) SDKlxer.com
: Tell me, Mr. Smith ... what good is an agent if it's unable to speak?Tobias Mann (The Register)
Ahead of tomorrow's Linux 6.16-rc6 kernel release a number of Bcachefs file-system fixes were merged.lxer.com
GStreamer 1.28 open-source multimedia framework has entered development promising many new features and improvements.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
In addition to Intel preparing Bartlett Lake S EDAC driver support for Linux 6.17, several other recent and upcoming Intel processors are also set to see Error Detection and Correction (EDAC) driver coverage with this next version of the Linux kernel…lxer.com
KDE ISO Image Writer is being revamped with QML and Kirigami for a more modern KDE-aligned UI, including a new ISO selection interface.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Labwc 0.9 window-stacking Wayland compositor lands with wlroots 0.19 support, new terminal integration, theme upgrades, and numerous fixes.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Bcachefs Lands Fixes In Linux 6.16 For Some "High Severity" Regressions
Ahead of tomorrow's Linux 6.16-rc6 kernel release a number of Bcachefs file-system fixes were merged...
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KDE ships Frameworks 6.16 with updated icons, enhanced Python support, and fixes in Baloo, KIO, Kirigami, and more.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Wine-Staging 10.2 Release Brings Patch For 11 Year Old Bug
It's been a while since there have been any new patches in the Wine-Staging experimental area to note. More patches though have continued working their way from Wine-Staging to upstream/mainline Wine while this weekend Wine-Staging 10.2 is out at 292 patches atop upstream Wine and containing two new patches...
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What happens when two open source reformers decide the old rules no longer work? Are you ready for the license that could change everything?Christine Hall (FOSS Force)
Linux 6.17 Readies EDAC Support For Intel Granite Rapids D, Wildcat Lake, Raptor Lake HX
In addition to Intel preparing Bartlett Lake S EDAC driver support for Linux 6.17, several other recent and upcoming Intel processors are also set to see Error Detection and Correction (EDAC) driver coverage with this next version of the Linux kernel...
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In addition to Intel preparing Bartlett Lake S EDAC driver support for Linux 6.17, several other recent and upcoming Intel processors are also set to see Error Detection and Correction (EDAC) driver coverage with this next version of the Linux kernel…www.phoronix.com
NVIDIA Publishes RTXNTC 0.7 Beta For Neural Texture Compression
NVIDIA software engineers ended out the week by releasing a new beta of their RTX Neural Texture Compression (NTC) SDK. The RTXNTC software is NVIDIA's interesting solution for compressing material texture sets with very promising results for helping to reduce game data sizes moving forward...
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GNOME Builder & Digital Wellbeing Code Improved This Week
On top of this week's release of the GNOME 49 Alpha, other application improvements and more came about in the past few days...
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KDE Preps More Crash KWin Crash Fixes, New Feature Work For Plasma 6.5
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his weekly development recap of all interesting things and fixes merged for the week to Plasma...
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Wine 10.12 is out with optional EGL backend, Bluetooth Low Energy support, and various bug fixes, including improvements for games and system utilities.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
Learn how to install Magento on AlmaLinux 10 or get our system admins to install it for you and get your shop up and running immediately.Jeff Wilson (RoseHosting)
Wireless-Tag’s WT99P4C5-S1 is a versatile multimedia development board built around the WT0132P4-A1 core module, which integrates Espressif’s ESP32-P4 dual-core RISC-V SoC.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
For those who seldom update to new compiler versions, GCC 12.5 was released today as the newest and final update to the GCC 12 compiler that debuted back in 2022.lxer.com
Follow https://github.com/mylinuxforwork/dotfiles/ and start script $ bash -c "$(curl -s https://raw.githubusercontent.com/mylinuxforwo...lxer.com
Calibre 8.6 open-source ebook manager is now available for download with various new features, improvements, and bug fixes.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
QuestDB 9.0 debuted today as the latest major update to this high performance, time-series database that is open-source under an Apache 2.0 licenselxer.com
Wine 10.12 Released With Experimental EGL Backend For The X11 Driver
Wine 10.12 has been uncorked as the latest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software running Windows games and applications on Linux and other operating systems...
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The Radxa E24C is a fanless network computer based on the Rockchip RK3528A processor, designed for routing, edge networking, and industrial tasks. It combines four RJ45 ports, 4K HDMI output, and an M.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
The FireBeetle 2 ESP32-P4, previewed earlier this year, is now available from DFRobot starting at $11.90.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
KDE Frameworks 6.16 open-source software suite is out now with various improvements and bug fixes for KDE apps and the Plasma desktop.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)