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Debian Is Figuring Out How Age Verification Laws Will Impact It

4 Apr 2026

With age verification/attestation laws down to the OS level enacted by California and being decided upon by other US states, it's been a hot topic of discussion in the open-source world. For the

Razer Wolverine V3 Pro & Betop KP50 Controllers To Be Supported By Linux 7.0

4 Apr 2026

Ahead of tomorrow's Linux 7.0-rc7 kernel release, this week's batch of input fixes were sent in and merged. Besides a few small input fixes are also some new device IDs and quirks for hardware now to

Linux 7.1 To Expose AMD Zen 6's AVX-512 BMM For Guest VMs

4 Apr 2026

A small but important patch that looks like it will be merged for the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel is for enumerating AVX-512 BMM support for KVM virtualized guests. AVX-512 BMM is one of the exciting

AWS Engineer Reports PostgreSQL Performance Halved By Linux 7.0, But A Fix May Not Be Easy

4 Apr 2026

An Amazon/AWS engineer raised the alarms on Friday over the current Linux 7.0 development kernel leading to the throughput for the PostgreSQL database server being around half that of prior kernel

3mdeb Makes Progress Bringing AMD openSIL + Coreboot To Ryzen AM5 Motherboard

4 Apr 2026

In addition to 3mdeb firmware engineers porting AMD openSIL and Coreboot to a Gigabyte EPYC Turin server motherboard, the staff at this firmware consulting company are also porting AMD openSIL and

2D CAD Design Tool For GNOME Desktop Lands More Features

4 Apr 2026

In the past few days was the release of FreeCAD 1.1 and SolveSpace 3.2 for open-source computer aided design (CAD) while now joining the party is Design 50 Alpha as a GNOME-aligned 2D CAD design

KDE's KWin Continues Working On Vulkan Support, Other Improvements For Plasma 6.7

4 Apr 2026

KDE Plasma developers continue working on new features for Plasma 6.7 while continuing to land more fixes and hardening for the current Plasma 6.6 stable series...

OpenRazer 3.12.1 Enables Two More Razer Devices Under Linux

3 Apr 2026

OpenRazer 3.12 released in mid-March as the latest feature update to these open-source drivers for Razer hardware on Linux. Out today is OpenRazer 3.12.1 for enabling two more Razer products on Linux

Wine 11.6 Begins Reviving Its Android Driver

3 Apr 2026

Wine 11.6 is out as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software enabling Windows games and applications on Linux, macOS, and other platforms...

Redox OS Introducing New CPU Scheduler For ~1.5x Performance In Heavy Tasks

3 Apr 2026

Redox OS Introducing New CPU Scheduler For ~1.5x Performance In Heavy Tasks

3 Apr 2026

The Rust-based Redox OS operating system is preparing to land a new CPU scheduler thanks to work being carried out by open-source developer Akshit Gaur on modernizing the platform's process

Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.32 Adds Wildcat Lake Support

3 Apr 2026

Intel today released their Linux NPU Driver 1.32 as the user-space driver components that interacts with the upstream IVPU kernel accelerator driver for supporting the NPU hardware with Core Ultra

Intel Linux NPU Driver 1.32 Adds Wildcat Lake Support

3 Apr 2026

CachyOS Delivers More Performance Out Of Intel Panther Lake

3 Apr 2026

Most of my Intel Panther Lake benchmarking over the past two months for the new Core Ultra Series 3 hardware has been done with Ubuntu Linux given the pervasiveness of it, especially in the

CachyOS Delivers More Performance Out Of Intel Panther Lake

3 Apr 2026

Gentoo Releases Experimental Images Using GNU/Hurd

3 Apr 2026

Following an April Fools' Day tease of Gentoo claiming they were going to switch to GNU Hurd as their primary kernel moving forward, they have now acknowledged the joke but in fact also announcing

Gentoo Releases Experimental Images Using GNU/Hurd

3 Apr 2026

AMDGPU Driver Ready To Be The Default For Aging Kaveri / Kabini / Mullins APUs

3 Apr 2026

With Linux 6.19 AMD GCN 1.1 and GCN 1.1 dGPUs now default to the AMDGPU driver rather than the legacy Radeon Linux driver. For these Southern Islands and Sea Islands graphics cards it means much

AMDGPU Driver Ready To Be The Default For Aging Kaveri / Kabini / Mullins APUs

3 Apr 2026

Meta Has A New Linux Optimization To Avoid Throttling TCP Throughput Unnecessarily

3 Apr 2026

Meta's great Linux engineering team have been working through some fresh performance optimizations recently from optimizing /proc/interrupts outputs to renewing their investment in jemalloc. A new

Meta Has A New Linux Optimization To Avoid Throttling TCP Throughput Unnecessarily

3 Apr 2026

FreeBSD Laptop Project Hopes To Port Newer Linux Graphics Drivers This Year

3 Apr 2026

Developers working on the FreeBSD laptop initiative to make the FreeBSD operating system more suitable for running on modern laptop hardware have drafted their road-map of further action items they

FreeBSD Laptop Project Hopes To Port Newer Linux Graphics Drivers This Year

3 Apr 2026

Snapdragon X2's Adreno X2-85 GPU Sees Driver Improvements For Linux 7.1

3 Apr 2026

Snapdragon X2's Adreno X2-85 GPU Sees Driver Improvements For Linux 7.1

3 Apr 2026

Rob Clark on Thursday sent out the batch of MSM DRM driver feature changes targeting the upcoming Linux 7.1 merge window. This new work for DRM-Next includes enhancements to the Adreno X2-85 GPU

Vulkan 1.4.348 Ships Four New Extensions - Including One To Help OpenGL Emulation

3 Apr 2026

Vulkan 1.4.348 Ships Four New Extensions - Including One To Help OpenGL Emulation

3 Apr 2026

Vulkan 1.4.348 released this morning as the latest routine update to this high performance graphics and compute API. With Vulkan 1.4.348 comes four new extensions...

AMD P-State Driver Introducing New Features With Linux 7.1

3 Apr 2026

A few Linux kernel releases have passed since there have been any new features to talk about for the AMD P-State driver for CPU frequency scaling / power management with modern AMD Ryzen and EPYC

AMD P-State Driver Introducing New Features With Linux 7.1

3 Apr 2026

Linux Fixes Performance Bug Affecting Qualcomm Ath11k & Ath12k WiFi Drivers

2 Apr 2026

Linux Fixes Performance Bug Affecting Qualcomm Ath11k & Ath12k WiFi Drivers

2 Apr 2026

Sent out today were the networking subsystem fixes for the ongoing Linux 7.0 kernel. These networking fixes in time for Sunday's Linux 7.0-rc7 release include addressing performance issues within the

Microsoft's Newest Open-Source Project: Runtime Security For AI Agents

2 Apr 2026

Microsoft today announced their newest open-source (MIT-licensed) software project.. the Agent Governance Toolkit. Microsoft is trying their hand at coming up with runtime security governance for

Microsoft's Newest Open-Source Project: Runtime Security For AI Agents

2 Apr 2026

Intel Posts Fourth Version Of Cache Aware Scheduling For Linux

2 Apr 2026

Just over one year ago Intel Linux engineers began working on cache-aware load balancing for Linux or more commonly referred to as Cache Aware Scheduling. The functionality for helping modern Intel

Intel Posts Fourth Version Of Cache Aware Scheduling For Linux

2 Apr 2026

AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" Enjoys Great Performance Gains With Latest Linux Software

2 Apr 2026

With the Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release due out in three weeks, I have been re-testing a number of different devices on this newest Ubuntu release. One of the most significant improvements to note was when

AMD Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" Enjoys Great Performance Gains With Latest Linux Software

2 Apr 2026

IBM Lays Out Patches For ARM Virtualization Acceleration On IBM Z Servers

2 Apr 2026

IBM Lays Out Patches For ARM Virtualization Acceleration On IBM Z Servers

2 Apr 2026

Following this morning's announcement of IBM working with Arm on "dual architecture" hardware, we have some more details on at least what's happening from the software side... It's improving Arm

IBM Collaborating With Arm For Dual-Architecture Hardware

2 Apr 2026

IBM announced today a strategic collaboration with Arm around new dual-architecture hardware...

IBM Collaborating With Arm For Dual-Architecture Hardware

2 Apr 2026

CentOS Launches Accelerated Infrastructure Enablement For Driving NVIDIA AI Factories

2 Apr 2026

The CentOS project has established the Accelerated Infrastructure Enablement "AIE" special interest group with a focus on providing a "fast lane" for "in-flight" patches. This CentOS AIE SIG is

CentOS Launches Accelerated Infrastructure Enablement For Driving NVIDIA AI Factories

2 Apr 2026

Proposed Wine Code Uses Zink For OpenGL-On-Vulkan By Default

2 Apr 2026

A CodeWeavers engineer opened a merge request yesterday for Wine to use Mesa's Zink OpenGL-on-Vulkan driver by default. This would build Zink as a Windows Portable Executable (PE) for allowing OpenGL

Proposed Wine Code Uses Zink For OpenGL-On-Vulkan By Default

2 Apr 2026

KTransformers Adds AVX2 MoE Support For Viable Performance On CPUs Without AMX/AVX-512

2 Apr 2026

KTransformers 0.5.3 released today for this framework for efficient inferencing and fine-tuning of large language models (LLMs) with a focus on CPU-GPU heterogeneous computing. With this release,

KTransformers Adds AVX2 MoE Support For Viable Performance On CPUs Without AMX/AVX-512

2 Apr 2026

Libinput Hit By Worrying Security Issues With Its Lua Plug-In System

2 Apr 2026

Libinput devised a Lua-based plug-in system for modifying devices/events. The Lua plug-in support was introduced last year with libinput 1.30 but unfortunately some security issues have now come to

Libinput Hit By Worrying Security Issues With Its Lua Plug-In System

2 Apr 2026

Steam On Linux Use Skyrocketed In March - More Than Double The macOS Gaming Marketshare

2 Apr 2026

If Valve's latest Steam Survey monthly figures are accurate, Steam on Linux enjoyed a very wild month of March. Steam on Linux is now above the 5% threshold and more than twice the size of the Steam