NVMe Controller Data Queue "CDQ" Patches Posted For Linux
New feature patches posted for review today on the Linux kernel mailing list are working to implement the NVMe specification's Controller Data Queue (CDQ) functionality within the NVMe storage driver...
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Old Radeon HD 2000/3000/4000 GPUs Still Seeing Open-Source Driver Fixes In 2025
In addition to last minute feature work on the latest AMD RDNA4 graphics cards ahead of the Mesa 25.2 code branching, there's also some new fixes going into Mesa for the open-source Radeon driver code... Coming in this Monday morning by surprise are some fixes for the Radeon HD 2000/3000 series approaching two decades old as well as a fix for the Radeon HD 40…
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RADV Vulkan Video Improvements Make It Into Mesa 25.2 For AMD RDNA4 GPUs
Ahead of the Mesa 25.2 code branching / feature freeze expected later this week, last minute feature additions and other changes continue landing in the codebase for these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers. One of the additions today worth mentioning are continued Vulkan Video improvements for AMD Radeon graphics...
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Intel Mesa Drivers Add Option To Disable Xe3's Variable Register Thread "VRT" Feature
One of the interesting new additions with the upcoming Intel Xe3 integrated and discrete graphics is the Variable Register Thread "VRT" feature. Making use of Variable Register Thread can reduce register splitting, reduce bandwidth consumption, and improve overall performance. More background information on Intel VRT can be found in that aforelinked Phoronix…
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One of the interesting new additions with the upcoming Intel Xe3 integrated and discrete graphics is the Variable Register Thread 'VRT' featurewww.phoronix.com
Last month when the Fairphone 6 smartphone was announced, same-day Linux support patches were posted for this modular and repair-friendly smartphonelxer.com
LMDE 7 Will Follow Linux Mint 22.2
The Linux Mint developers have put out their monthly status update to outline their work in recent weeks. Over the course of June, Linux Mint developers were primarily focused on Linux Mint 22.2 with the beta release expected soon...
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In May, NordVPN got full scale on board with Linux with it released a Linux client. We just took it for a spin!Christine Hall (FOSS Force)
Debian's DebConf25 Kicks Off On France - Video Streams Available
Debian's annual Debian Conference "DebConf" started this morning and runs all week in Brest, France...
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Debian's annual Debian Conference 'DebConf' started this morning and runs all week in Brest, France.www.phoronix.com
A step-by-step guide to installing Docker on Rocky Linux 10, offering a solid Enterprise Linux foundation for containerized workloads.Bobby Borisov (Linuxiac)
The Haiku open-source operating system project inspired by BeOS had a busy month of June with a number of enhancements made to this OSlxer.com
The 9to5Linux Weekly Roundup for July 13th, 2025, brings news about GNOME 49 Alpha, Amarok 3.3, Calibre 8.6, Ubuntu 24.10 EOL, and more.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
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.lxer.com
GParted Live 1.7.0-8 open-source partition editor is now available for download with a mechanism to reduce the random order of block devices.Marius Nestor (9to5Linux)
The HH-SCDAYU800A is another RISC-V development board built around the Alibaba T-Head TH1520 system-on-chip.Giorgio Mendoza (LinuxGizmos.com)
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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