SquashFS Tools 4.7.3 Brings Optimizations For As Much As "1500 Times" Speed Improvement

For those dealing with SquashFS compressed, read-only file-systems, a new version of the user-space tools were released this week.

Linux 6.18-rc5 To Cut Down Performance Regression Observed On IBM POWER CPUs

Merged today ahead of the Linux 6.18-rc5 kernel due out on Sunday is a partial fix for a performance regression observed on IBM POWER hardware.

KDE Plasma 6.6 Shaving Off 100MB Of Memory Use, Fixing DrKonqi Crash Reporter Crashing

KDE developers were off to a busy start for the month of November

AMD Sends Out Initial GNU Binutils Patch For AMD Zen 6 - Confirms New AVX-512 Features

AMD has begun their open-source compiler enablement upstreaming effort for Zen 6 processors! The first 'Znver6' patch was sent out on Friday in preparing for new instructions to be found with these...

Ryzen AI Software 1.6.1 Advertises Linux Support

Ryzen AI Software as AMD's collection of tools and libraries for AI inferencing on AMD Ryzen AI class PCs has Linux support with its newest point release

oneDNN 3.10 Continues Preparing For Future Intel CPUs With AVX 10.2

Released one Friday was the newest version of oneDNN as this library started off by Intel and now officially under the UXL Foundation umbrella for serving as building blocks for deep learning...

Linux Kernel Patches & Device Tree Additions For PCIe M.2 Connectors

On ACPI-enabled systems Linux users can enjoy PCIe M.2 connected peripherals that 'just work' without any extra fuss

Qt Merges Wayland Color Management "color-management-v1"

The Qt toolkit has merged support for Wayland's color-management-v1 protocol to replace the former xx-color-management-v4 protocol shipped by this open-source toolkit

FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 5 Released With Build Fixes For Google & Azure Clouds

FreeBSD 15.0-RC1 had been expected this weekend but instead a fifth beta release of FreeBSD 15.0 was deemed warranted.

Microsoft Contributing "RAMDAX" Driver For Upcoming Linux 6.19 Kernel

A new driver planned to be sent to the mainline Linux kernel for the upcoming Linux 6.19 merge window is yet another new contribution from Microsoft.

GTK Adds "Reduced Motion" Accessibility Option To Follow macOS, Windows & Others

In addition to GNOME's Mutter compositor removing its X11 back-end support to focus exclusively on Wayland while keeping around XWayland client support, another notable GNOME change this week was the...

NILFS2 File-System Seeing Renewed Interest With Additional Maintainer

It's been a while since having anything major to talk about with the NILFS2 file-system but it looks like that could be changing

Archinstall 3.0.13 Adds WiFi Connection Menu To Arch Linux Installer

Just days after the Archinstall 3.0.12 release for this text-based Arch Linux installer, Archinstall 3.0.13 is now available to deliver a new feature

Mesa 25.3-rc4 Brings Fix For Many Steam Play Games To Properly Run On Intel Linux Driver

Mesa 25.3-rc4 is available for testing as the latest weekly candidate as we work toward the Mesa 25.3 stable release this month.

Hyprland 0.52 Released With New Features For This Wayland Compositor

IncusOS Announced As Immutable Linux OS With ZFS For Running Containers

It has been two years already since the Linux Containers project forked Canonical's LXD project as Incus

Intel's Rewrite Of Linux MM CID Code Showing Some Nice Gains For AMD

Posted last month were new Linux kernel scheduler-related patches rewriting the MM CID management code.

D7VK Aims To Deliver Direct3D 7 Atop Vulkan

DXVK that is an important piece of Steam Play (Proton) for the Direct3D API implemented over the Vulkan API began as D9VK