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

Ubuntu Server 25.10 Performance On AMD EPYC With "amd64v3" Optimized Packages

Last week Canonical announced Ubuntu 'architecture variants' with initially supporting 'amd64v3' optimized packages built using the x86_64-v3 micro-architecture feature level

Linux To Gain ML-DSA/Dilithium Post-Quantum Cryptography For Module Signing

New code likely to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.19 kernel would introduce ML-DSA/Dilithium post-quantum cryptography to be initially used for dealing with kernel module signing.

CachyOS Continues Delivering Leading Performance Over Ubuntu 25.10, Fedora Workstation 43

With Intel having sunset Clear Linux, when it comes to aggressive out-of-the-box Linux performance there is the Arch Linux based CachyOS as the leading contender.

Vulkan 1.4.332 Brings A New Qualcomm Extension For AI / ML

Vulkan 1.4.332 is out today as the latest weekly update to this high performance graphics and compute API specification

Mesa Lands Fixes For HDR With Vulkan Drivers

Merged overnight to Mesa 26.0-devel and likely to be back-ported for the upcoming Mesa 23.3 release are a few fixes around high dynamic range (HDR) support within the common Vulkan windowing system...

Intel ANV Vulkan Driver Finally Exposes Pipeline Binary "VK_KHR_pipeline_binary"

Introduced back in August of 2024 with Vulkan 1.3.294 was VK_KHR_pipeline_binary as a pipeline binary extension to retrieve binary data associated with individual pipelines

Linux Patches Updated For Snapdragon X Elite Powered TUXEDO Elite 14 Gen1 Laptop

In mid-2024, Bavarian PC vendor TUXEDO Computers began teasing a Snapdragon X Elite powered Linux laptop with hopes of having it available by Christmas 2024