Lenovo ThinkEdge SE30 Watchdog Driver Coming For Linux 6.15
The watchdog subsystem changes have been submitted for the Linux 6.15 merge window that is now at the mid-way point… ⌘ Read more

IO_uring Network Zero-Copy Receive Lands In Linux 6.15
IO_uring continues maturing while being one of the greatest innovations within the Linux kernel in the past number of years. With Linux 6.15, IO_uring is getting even more interesting with introducing network zero-copy receive support… ⌘ Read more

MIPS Lands Multi-Cluster Support In Linux 6.15 For The EyeQ6 SoC
While the upstream MIPS architecture is at a dead-end due to RISC-V, the Linux kernel code for the MIPS CPU architecture continues to improve for all the existing MIPS-based platforms out there. With Linux 6.15 there is new work for enhancing the Mobileye EyeQ6 SoC support… ⌘ Read more

Shotcut 25.03 Open-Source, Cross-Platform Video Editor Released
Shotcut 25.03 is now available for this open-source and cross-platform video editor built atop the MLT Multimedia Framework… ⌘ Read more

Intel’s 2025-Q1 Linux Excitement With Battlemage, AVX10 & Other Kernel Improvements
With the first quarter quickly drawing to a close, here’s a look back at the most popular Intel Linux news of the quarter. There’s been excitement with the Battlemage discrete graphics cards with their open-source driver, early work on Xe3 graphics, AVX10.2 dropping the optional 512-bit features to make it mandatory now (thankfully!), and a lot of exciting upstream Linux kernel improvements… ⌘ Read more

Firmware Loader Makes It Possible To Use Old Samsung TV Cameras On Linux
Samsung used to sell web cameras for their smart TVs for use with living room video chatting with the likes of Skype. Samsung no longer supports Skype on their TVs (goodbye Skype!) or these devices but if you happen to have one laying around or buy one used for cheap, it’s now possible to use these Samsung TV cameras as a standard web camera under Linux… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.15 PCI Brings New Drivers For Agilex PCIe Controller & AMD Multimedia DMA Bridge
All of the PCI subsystem feature updates have now been merged for the Linux 6.15 kernel cycle. This includes some new drivers from AMD and Intel-Altera as well as various other PCI changes… ⌘ Read more

Xiph.Org’s Theora libtheora 1.2 Officially Released: 16 Years After v1.0
Earlier this month brought the Theora 1.2 beta release coming 16 years after Theora’s libtheora 1.0 release for this video codec designed by Xiph.Org for use with Ogg audio. Theora is derived from the now rather ancient VP3 video codec, but for those continuing to enjoy content in Theora format, today brings the version 1.2 library… ⌘ Read more

KDE Plasma 6.3.4 To Fix The “Most Common” Crash, Other Crash Fixes Coming Too
Within This Week in Plasma, KDE developer Nate Graham notes the great excitement in KDE bug fixing this week/ KDE developers have lowered their HI/VHI priority bug counts down to “their lowest numbers ever numbers” in addition to working on new Plasma 6.4 features over the past few days… ⌘ Read more

Debian 13 “Trixie” Freeze Process Begins
The Debian release team announced that the Debian 13 “Trixie” transition and toolchain freeze began on-schedule this month… ⌘ Read more

Torvalds Frustrated Over “Disgusting” Testing “Turd” DRM Code Landing In Linux 6.15
The big set of open-source graphics driver updates for Linux 6.15 have been merged but Linux creator Linus Torvalds isn’t particularly happy with the pull request. In particular, he’s unhappy with some new “hdrtest” testing code being built as part of full kernel builds and the “turds” it leaves behind and this code “needs to die” at least from the perspective of non-DRM driver developers… ⌘ Read more

Torvalds Frustrated Over “Disgusting” Testing “Turd” DRM Code Landing In Linux 6.15
The big set of open-source graphics driver updates for Linux 6.15 have been merged but Linux creator Linus Torvalds isn’t particularly happy with the pull request. In particular, he’s unhappy with some new “hdrtest” testing code being built as part of full kernel builds and the “turds” it leaves behind and this code “needs to die” at least from the perspective of non-DRM driver developers… ⌘ Read more

GNOME Builder IDE Adds Arduino Integration, New Remote Desktop Software For VMs
While fresh off the GNOME 48 release, GNOME desktop developers aren’t slowing down and there’s been some interesting activity to report this week… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.15 Graphics Drivers: NOVA Core, Apple Touch Bar, Lots For AMD + Intel GPUs
The big pull request was sent out today of the numerous Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) updates for the in-development Linux 6.15 kernel. There are new drivers, a lot as usual for the AMD Radeon and Intel kernel graphics drivers, and a lot of other changes throughout for advancing these open-source kernel graphics/display drivers… ⌘ Read more

GNOME 48 & KDE Plasma 6.3 Delivering Great Wayland Desktop Experience On Ubuntu 25.04 For Linux Gaming
While there were a few graphics benchmarks in yesterday’s Ubuntu 25.04 beta benchmarks, today’s article is looking more at the Ubuntu 25.04 Linux gaming performance for both the GNOME 48 and KDE Plasma 6.3 desktops that default to the Wayland-based session by default while also trying out the X11 session for both of these desktops. ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.15 Landing Backlight Driver For Various Apple iPhones & iPads
Back during the Linux 6.13 kernel cycle initial support for many (pre-M1) Apple devices were upstreamed including various iPad, iPhone, and iPod Touch devices. That though was the very preliminary support and continuing to work their way upstream are various drivers/patches to further enhance the support. Now for the Linux 6.15 kernel is a new Apple backlight driver for controlling the backlight on various mobile Apple devices… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.15 Networking Delivers Many Nice Performance Optimizations & New Hardware
The networking subsystem updates for the in-development Linux 6.15 kernel bring multiple nice performance optimizations to enhance Linux networking speeds. The Linux 6.15 networking pull also has support for a number of new wireless and wired network chipsets… ⌘ Read more

Linux Flips Around Its Behavior For Spectre-BHB Handling On ARM64
All of the ARM64 changes were merged this week to the Linux 6.15 kernel for enhancing the 64-bit ARM processor support… ⌘ Read more

Two Years In The Making, Intel Linux Driver Enables CPS Compression For Alchemist GPUs
A two year old Intel Mesa merge request was finally merged for Mesa 25.1 today for enabling functionality on DG2/Alchemist GPUs and newer… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.15 Better Handles PS5 Controllers, AMD Human Presence Detection Off By Default
All of the HID subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.15 merge window… ⌘ Read more

Nova DRM Skeleton Patches Further Flesh Out This Open-Source NVIDIA Kernel Driver
Set to be merged for the Linux 6.15 kernel is the very initial NOVA driver core code that will be incrementally built up over time in succeeding kernel versions. For Linux 6.15, this open-source NVIDIA kernel driver isn’t of any use for end-users as it’s just the very preliminary pieces to begin crafting the foundation for the driver that is leveraging the NVIDIA GSP found with Turing and newer hardware. In preparation for fut … ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.15 SoC/DT Additions: Arm Morello, Versal NET, Apple T2, MNT Reform 2 & More
The many SoC and DeviceTree updates have now been merged for the Linux 6.15 kernel merge window. There’s a lot on the ARM hardware side plus some additions for RISC-V and various interesting new device/board additions… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 25.04 Beta Officially Released
The Ubuntu 25.04 “Plucky Puffin” beta is now available for testing ahead of the official release set for 17 April… ⌘ Read more

EXT4 Better Hardened Against Maliciously-Fuzzed File-Systems
Ted Ts’o at Google has sent out the EXT4 file-system updates for the in-development Linux 6.15 kernel… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 25.04 Beta Delivering Some Nice Performance Improvements Over Ubuntu 24.10
Ubuntu 25.04 beta is set to be released today and thus this week I’ve begun testing out the latest Ubuntu 25.04 builds on different systems for seeing how this six-month Ubuntu Linux update is looking compared to the prior Ubuntu 24.10 release. In this first Ubuntu 25.04 beta benchmarking article is a look at the performance using an AMD Ryzen 9000 series desktop and Radeon RX 7900 XTX graphics. ⌘ Read more

Akamai Now Providing The Hosting Infrastructure For Kernel.org
It’s not only FreeDesktop.org that has been transitioning to new infrastructure this month but separately, Kernel.org is now receiving hosting and CDN needs provided by Akamai… ⌘ Read more

Zstd 1.5.7 Lands In Linux 6.15 For Better Performance & APIs For Intel QAT Acceleration
Linux 6.15 keeps getting more exciting… The big Zstd update has landed! The in-kernel Zstandard compression code is finally re-based against the newer upstream state that brings better performance as well as new APIs for allowing Intel QAT acceleration by Intel hardware offering QuickAssist Technology. This Zstd code is relied upon by Btrfs transparent file-system compression and other in-kernel users for compression/decompr … ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.15 To Gain New Option For Those Building The Kernel Without Virtual Terminal
The printk changes submitted for the Linux 6.15 kernel introduce a new “NULL_TTY_DEFAULT_CONSOLE” Kconfig build-time option for allowing the null TTY to be the default for those building the Linux kernel without virtual terminal (VT) support… ⌘ Read more

PostgreSQL Database Lands Initial Support For IO_uring: “Can Be Considerably Faster”
As a very exciting improvement for the open-source PostgreSQL database server, it has merged initial support for making use of IO_uring on Linux servers for asynchronous I/O and can provide for some nice performance improvements… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.15 Brings Support For New Sound Hardware, Continued SoundWire Improvements
Linux sound subsystem maintainer Takashi Iwai of SUSE has submitted all the feature updates slated for Linux 6.15. There is a lot of new audio hardware support and other enhancements that are now merged for this next kernel release… ⌘ Read more

RadeonSI Goes Rusticl-Only, Clearing Out Support For Old Clover OpenCL
Earlier this month Mesa deprecated the Clover OpenCL driver in favor of the modern Rust-written Rusticl Gallium3D state tracker. Clover is expected to be removed in Q3’s Mesa 25.2 release while today the RadeonSI driver has decided to preemptively remove its Clover support… ⌘ Read more

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Introduces BFloat16 Support
NVIDIA has published new Vulkan beta driver builds for Windows and Linux that introduce VK_KHR_shader_bfloat16 for BFloat16 “BF16” support within shaders… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.15 Adds Support For The New AMD Versal NET SoC
Submitted today for upstreaming into the Linux 6.15 kernel is support for the Versal NET SoC, an addition to the AMD/Xilinx Versal family that doesn’t appear to have been talked about much publicly yet but should be an interesting addition to their product line-up… ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Announces Open-Source “Hyperlight Wasm” Project
Microsoft last year announced the open-source Hyperlight project as an embedded VMM for use as a micro-VM manager of sorts that can be run within Windows and Linux applications. This VM-based security for small embedded functions now has its scope expanded with the open-source release today of Hyperlight Wasm for bringing in WebAssembly to the party… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.15 Adds AMD Zen 5 SRSO Mitigation For KVM, Preps For Attack Vector Controls
While there is a lot of exciting new x86_64 CPU features coming with Linux 6.15, there is also some of the not so fun changes too: namely the “x86/bugs” pull request to bring the latest CPU security mitigation work to the mainline kernel… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.15 Continues Improving Laptop Support
The x86 platform drivers co-maintainer Ilpo Järvinen sent out the pull request today of all the feature additions set for the in-development Linux 6.15 kernel. As usual, most of the platform-drivers-x86 material is around improvements to benefit modern Intel Core and AMD Ryzen laptops… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.15 Adds Raptor Lake-S Support To Intel EDAC Driver
The Linux Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 6.15 kernel… ⌘ Read more

AerynOS 2025.03 Released Following Rebrand From Serpent OS
AerynOS 2025.03 is now available for this Linux distribution that began life as Serpent OS as a new original distribution started by Ikey Doherty of Solus Linux fame… ⌘ Read more

KDE Developers Begin Working On A New Login Manager
KDE developer David Edmundson has published a lengthy blog post today outlining the long-standing challenges they have with the SDDM display manager, unimplemented features they want out of a log-in manager, and acknowledging GNOME’s GDM as a “gold standard” for display managers. While not yet an official project, they have begun working on a new KDE Login Manager for improving the situation… ⌘ Read more

IBM Says Goodbye To Cell Blade Servers With Linux 6.15
The Linux 6.15 kernel is set to remove support for IBM Cell Blade servers for those server platforms from around two decades ago that used the Cell Broadband Engine Architecture processors. IBM Cell Blades at the time powered a few supercomputers but these IBM QS20 / QS21 / QS22 platforms are no longer relevant and the IBM Linux kernel maintainers no longer even have these platforms available/running. With no apparent users remaining, it’s time to say … ⌘ Read more

Intel Low Power Mode Daemon 0.0.9 Released For Linux Users
Intel engineers today released LPMD 0.0.9, the newest version of their open-source Low Power Mode Daemon for Linux systems to optimize active idle power consumption on Intel Core processors… ⌘ Read more

Microsoft Brings Two More Features To Hyper-V With Linux 6.15
With the Microsoft Hyper-V virtualization updates for the Linux 6.15 kernel there are two new features worth mentioning… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.15 Goes Very Heavy On Intel & AMD x86_64 CPU Changes
Merged today for the recently-opened Linux 6.15 merge window were all of the “x86/core” changes that are particularly heavy on new feature work for both Intel and AMD x86/x86_64 processors. This is easily quite one of the most significant Intel/AMD CPU set of updates in a given kernel cycle in quite some time… ⌘ Read more

XZ 5.8 Debuts As First Major Feature Release Since The Backdoor Disaster
XZ 5.8 is out today as the first notable feature release since last year’s malicious backdoor in XZ 5.6 inserted by a then-co-maintainer of the project. XZ 5.6.2 was out last May while XZ 5.8.0 is now stable today for bringing new features to this lossless data compressor project… ⌘ Read more

MPV 0.40 Media Player Released With Wayland HDR Support
MPV 0.40 was just released as the newest version of this open-source media player derived from MPlayer/MPlayer2. With the MPV 0.40 release there is support for HDR videos on Wayland using the new color management protocol along with a variety of other new features… ⌘ Read more

Fwupd 2.0.7 Released With New Plug-Ins & Additional Hardware Support
Fwupd 2.0.7 brings the newest plug-ins and expanded hardware support for being able to update a variety of system and device/peripheral firmware under Linux… ⌘ Read more

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Linux Gaming/Graphics Performance
Earlier this month for launch-day there were NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Linux GPU compute benchmarks. The graphics/gaming benchmarks of the GeForce RTX 5070 on Linux were held up by waiting for a new R570 Linux driver release with proper support for this new Blackwell graphics card. Last week that new Linux driver arrived in the form of the NVIDIA 570.133.07 Linux build. That new NVIDIA Linux driver is working out great with the GeForce RTX 5070 Founder’ … ⌘ Read more

Latest Batch Of Rust Compiler Updates For GCC 15.1 Lands Support For… For Loops
Over the past week a lot of new Rust “gccrs” code was merged into the GCC 15 compiler code-base as a big step forward for this open-source Rust front-end. Another big batch of patches have been merged with for-loops now working among other functionality… ⌘ Read more

Intel Engineer Posts Cache-Aware Load Balancing For Linux - May Be Very Useful For AMD
An exciting new Linux kernel patch series was posted today for testing… Introducing support for cache-aware load-balancing. The patch comes from a veteran Intel Linux engineer but this cache aware load balancing may also prove very applicable for AMD Linux users for EPYC and Ryzen processors… ⌘ Read more

F2FS Sees Nice Set Of Enhancements For Linux 6.15
In addition to the Btrfs updates with real-time Zstd compression support and Bcachefs stabilizing its on-disk format, the Flash Friendly File-System updates have also been submitted already for the newly-opened Linux 6.15 merge window. There are a few exciting improvements for F2FS with this next Linux kernel version… ⌘ Read more