Intel Begins Sending In Kernel Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 6.17

Intel open-source software driver engineers have begun sending in their new kernel graphics driver feature pulls to DRM-Next ahead of the Linux 6.17 merge window coming up by early August. There is some new feature work included as part of Intel's pull requests for the weeks along with more PCI device IDs being introduced, bug fixes, and other code refactoring...
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Microsoft's open-source command-line text editor works really well on Ubuntu - and a snap makes it easy to install!

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Microsoft’s New CLI Text Editor Works Great on Ubuntu

Edit is a new open source command line text editor from Microsoft that supports Windows, macOS and Linux. Learn what it can do, and how to try it on Ubuntu.

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It's showtime for Showtime, the new GTK4/libadwaita video player, which GNOME promotes to Core app ahead of the desktop's next release.

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GNOME Replace Totem Video Player with Showtime

Roll credits on Totem, roll camera on Showtime — GNOME developers have officially cast a new video player in GNOME 49, out in September. Per an upstream merge, GNOME has formally replaced the a...

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XPG Alpha Wireless Gaming Mouse Being Quirked For Linux Support

The XPG Alpha Wireless Gaming Mouse boasts a 16K DPI sensor and retails for $65~80 USD but turns out it doesn't even work properly under Linux without a pending kernel patch...
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Deferred THP Insertion Nearing The Linux Kernel To Help Avoid Memory Waste

A patch currently residing within Andrew Morton's "MM" memory management branch ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.16 merge window is an addition by Red Hat for introducing deferred THP insertion to khugepaged. This deferred Transparent Huge Page (THP) insertion aims to help reduce memory waste on Linux with some workloads...
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Linux 6.15 Performance Events Adds Support For AMD Zen 5 Load Latency Filtering

Merged a few days ago for the Linux 6.15 kernel were all of the performance events updates for which there are a few notable patches on the AMD and Intel side this cycle...
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When paired with the Blur My Shell extension on GNOME Shell, Tauon 8.0 looks seriously slick 😎 omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/04/tauon-…

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Tauon Music Player Adds Slick Transparency Mode for Linux

A new version of Tauon music player is out, gifting fans of the powerful and unique-looking audio app a raft of new features to play with – including some Linux exclusive eye candy! Tauon 8.0 [&h...

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SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview brings the 'beginnings of support for non-Steam Deck handhelds' gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/stea…

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SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview brings the 'beginnings of support for non-Steam Deck handhelds'

Valve have released SteamOS 3.7.0 Preview, which they noted has the beginnings of support for non-Steam Deck handhelds! So we're closing in on the previously announced Beta for more handhelds. Although this release is still just for Steam Deck.

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One Line Of Code Optimizes F2FS Performance For Small Multi-Threaded Writes

An SK engineer has posted a Flash-Friendly File-System (F2FS) driver optimization for Linux that one line of code changed is helping with performance especially for multi-threaded workloads involving small writes to SSD storage...
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Linux 6.14-rc7 To Support A Few More Gaming Controllers

Ahead of the Linux 6.14-rc7 kernel release later today, a set of input subsystem updates were merged overnight that add in support for a few more gaming controllers...
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Vertical tabs have finally arrived in Firefox! The latest update adds that and a few other neat features, plus hardware video decoding on AMD GPUs for Linux users omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/03/firefo…

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Firefox 136 Released with Vertical Tabs, New Sidebar + More

The new Mozilla Firefox 136 release delivers a number of notable new features—features Mozilla may be hoping help it re-earn some goodwill from users following last week’s privacy palaver. ...

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More Apple Silicon Updates For Linux 6.15 Help M1/M2 Plus iPad / iPod / iPhone

Already queued ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window opening later this month are DeviceTree support for Apple's T2 SoCs as well as other DeviceTree additions set to be mainlined. A third round of DeviceTree patches were sent out on Sunday morning to the Linux kernel mailing list for the upcoming v6.15 cycle...
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Linux's New Way Of Informing User-Space Over Hung GPUs May Become More Useful

Last month I wrote about new code slated to be added for Linux 6.15 that would provide a cross-driver/standardized means of reporting to user-space over hung GPUs. For the likes of the AMD and Intel graphics drivers initially, user-space will be notified via this new wedged event when a GPU is hung in case user-space wants to take additional actions to try…
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March 25 reminder - GamingOnLinux needs your support gamingonlinux.com/2025/03/marc…

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March 25 reminder - GamingOnLinux needs your support

Welcome to March 2025 readers! Here's a gentle reminder that GamingOnLinux is primarily funded by readers - that's you! And we need your support.

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