AMD Announces The Radeon AI PRO R9700 Graphics Coming In July
From the AMD keynote at Computex today the Raeon AI PRO R9700 Graphics were announced in delivering RDNA4 graphics for professionals...
AMD Announces ROCm-DS
AMD this evening announced ROCm-DS as a new toolkit for their ROCm compute stack to accelerate data processing workloads on Instinct accelerators...
Linux Scheduler Patches Aim To Address Performance Regressions Since Last Year
A set of Linux kernel scheduler patches posted today are trying to address some performance regressions observed since the Linux 6.11 kernel that was released back in September 2025. These performance-fixing patches are flying under a "request for comments" flag and some of the regressions are tricky and perhaps not completely resolved, but it looks to be a step in the right direction...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-Sched-Fixing-Post-611-RFC
Red Hat & AMD Collaborating To Further Enhance Open-Source GPU Stack For AI
In addition to AMD being involved with Red Hat on the new llm-d open-source project for Gen AI, AMD and Red Hat also announced today further collaboration around open-source GPU/accelerator support for AI workloads...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Red-Hat-AMD-Collaborating-2025
Red Hat Announces The llm-d Open-Source Project For Gen AI
In addition to rolling out Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10, Red Hat used their annual developer summit today for introducing llm-d as their newest open-source project...
VKD3D 1.16 Released With DXIL Shader Support
VKD3D 1.16 was released today by Wine/CodeWeavers developers as this upstream Direct3D 12 over Vulkan API implementation used by Wine for running D3D12 Windows games/applications on Linux...
Rust Abstractions For CPUFreq Prepped For Linux 6.16
More Rust programming language abstractions are on the way for the upcoming Linux 6.16 cycle to allow for more areas where Rust-based drivers can be created for the kernel...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.16-Rust-CPUFreq-Binding
Debian's APT 3.1 Released With Why/Why-Not Commands, New Solver Default On Ubuntu
Following the release earlier this year of the big APT 3.0 package manager tool release, APT 3.1 was tagged today as another step forward to this key tool on Debian-based Linux distributions...
Microsoft Makes "Edit" Command Line Editor Open-Source, WSL Going Open-Source Too
Microsoft kicked off its Build 2025 developer conference today with some open-source announcements...
Intel Announces Arc Pro B-Series, "Project Battlematrix" Linux Software Improvements
Intel is using Computex 2025 to showcase their new Arc Pro B-Series graphics cards that will be available in Q3 for professional use-cases as well as focusing on AI inference workstations and edge computing workloads. Plus they are noting some significant improvements coming to their Linux software stack.
Debian 13 "Trixie" Now In Hard Freeze: MIPS64EL Demoted, RISC-V 64-bit Promoted
Debian 13.0 is now one step closer to release with Debian developers having moved Debian "Trixie" into a hard freeze state ahead of the official release this summer...
Linux 6.14.7 & Other Stable Kernel Releases Bring ARM64 Security Fix
Linux 6.14.7 and other new point releases for stable and maintained Linux kernel series were released today. Among the fixes incorporated were a notable ARM64 security fix...
Ubuntu 25.04 Delivers Decisive Lead Over Fedora 42 For Ampere Altra Performance
With the recently-launched Ubuntu 25.04 and Fedora 42 Linux distributions I've been seeing very healthy competition on Intel and AMD x86_64 hardware between these two leading Linux operating systems. But, surprisingly, after evaluating the AArch64 performance I was surprised to find Ubuntu 25.04 delivering a decisive advantage over Fedora 42 when testing on Ampere Altra using a System76 Thelio Astra workstation.
NVIDIA Upstreams Newer GSP Firmware For Open-Source Nouveau Driver
NVIDIA has supplied updated GPU System Processor (GSP) firmware derived from their R570 driver series to the upstream linux-firmware.git repository...
Rockchip Open-Source NPU Driver "RKNN" Continues Making Progress
Started just over one year ago was the effort to create an open-source Rockchip NPU driver. While not yet mainlined to the Linux kernel, progress on this kernel driver and associated user-space driver continues...
Intel ISPC 1.27 Released With AVX10.2 Support
Intel's Implicit SPMD Program Compiler (ISPC) is out with a new feature release in preparing for AVX10.2-enabled processors and bringing other enhancements to this C programming language variant focused on single program, multiple data (SPMD) programming...
Ubuntu 25.10 Planning For Good NVIDIA On Wayland Experience, VRR & RISC-V Desktop
A public Ubuntu 25.10 desktop road-map was published today to outline some of the plans that Canonical engineers are beginning to work on ahead of the next Ubuntu Linux release in October...
KDE Plasma 6.4 Beta Released With Aurorae & KWin-X11
The beta release of the KDE Plasma 6.4 beta desktop is now available for testing ahead of its official release in June...
Linux Patches Updated For Dropping Support For Very Old x86 CPUs
Posted last month were Linux patches for removing support for very old i486 and early i586 CPUs. While not yet mainlined to the Linux kernel contrary to some of the reporting elsewhere, this work for removing TSC-less and CX8-less x86 CPUs remains ongoing and out today is the second iteration of the patches...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-x86-Removing-Old-CPUs-v2
Vulkan 1.4.315 With VK_EXT_zero_initialize_device_memory For VKD3D-Proton & More
Released last week was the Vulkan 1.4.315 spec update and with it comes the new VK_EXT_zero_initialize_device_memory extension for allowing device memory allocations to be zero-initialized...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Vulkan-1.4.315-Zero-Init-Memory
Intel ANV Driver Lands Fixes For AV1 Decoding With Vulkan Video
For those interested in making use of GPU-accelerated AV1 video decoding with Intel graphics hardware using the Vulkan Video API, some important fixes were merged to Mesa 25.2-devel and will presumably be backported soon to existing Mesa releases...
Canonical Provides Status Update For Snapdragon X Elite Laptops On Ubuntu 25.04
Canonical provided a status update concerning the Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite powered laptops on the recently released Ubuntu 25.04...
Firefox Source Code Now Hosted On GitHub
The Mozilla Firefox source code is now officially available on GitHub as they work to transition from their hg.mozilla.org servers...
Training Solo: New Set Of Serious Security Vulnerabilities Exposed For Intel & Arm CPUs
The VUSec security researchers are at it again... The embargo is now lifted on another set of of security vulnerabilities affecting Intel processors as well as Arm core designs. This new vulnerability is dubbed Training Solo...
DragonFlyBSD 6.4.2 Released With Fixes To Help QEMU & Chrome
While it took two and a half years for DragonFlyBSD 6.4.1 to materialize from DragonFlyBSD 6.4, only one week passed since that recent v6.4.1 release to now see v6.4.2...
Shotcut 25.05 Video Editor Working Toward HDR Support
Shotcut 25.05 was released on Sunday as the newest feature release for this non-linear, open-source video editing software...
Intel oneDNN 3.8 Brings More CPU & GPU Performance Optimizations
Intel software engineers released oneDNN 3.8 to end out the week with various new performance optimizations and more...
Mesa 25.2 Merges AMD Support For Setting Queue Priorities
Going along with new AMDGPU kernel driver patches on their way to the mainline kernel with Linux 6.16, the Mesa 25.2 user-space driver code has landed the infrastructure for being able to set queue priorities as well as secure queues...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Mesa-25.2-AMDGPU-Queue-Priority
Vulkan API 1.4.314 Brings One New Extension In Working Toward Vulkan Roadmap 2026
Vulkan 1.4.314 is now available as the newest routine spec update for this high performance GPU graphics and compute API. With Vulkan 1.4.314 there are more early preparations toward Vulkan Roadmap 2026 in aiming for a baseline of high-end smartphones, computers, and more for next year...
Valve's Proton 10.0 Beta Released With More Windows Games Now Playable On Linux
Valve and CodeWeavers today announced the much anticipated beta release of Proton 10.0 as the newest version of their downstream version of Wine that powers Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux...
Linux 6.15-rc4 Released With Performance Regression Fix, Corrected Bcachefs Case Folding
Linux 6.15-rc4 is now available after a rather eventful week and about one month to go until the stable Linux 6.15...
Linux 6.15-rc4 To Fix The Kernel Crashing For 32-bit Systems With Too Much RAM
With the Linux kernel now limiting 32-bit systems to 4GB of memory even with the "HIGHMEM" Kconfig option, an issue was uncovered where if the system was still populated with more memory than addressable by 32-bit systems, the kernel would crash. With the Linux 6.15-rc4 kernel due out on Sunday, this issue will be addressed...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.15-rc4-Fix-32-RAM-Crash
GCC 15.1 Released With COBOL Compiler & Many Other Improvements
GCC 15.1 was just released as the newest annual feature release to the GNU Compiler Collection. This first stable GCC 15 release brings a COBOL compiler front-end, many C and C++ language support improvements, support for new CPUs and ISA capabilities, better Rust programming language support, debugging enhancements, and a whole lot more...
Intel Updates Its PyTorch Extension With DeepSeek-R1 Support, New Optimizations
Intel today released a new version of the Intel Extension for PyTorch in order to apply optimizations to PyTorch for benefiting Intel's hardware. With the Intel Extension for PyTorch v2.7 release, there is support for new large language models (LLMs) as well as various performance optimizations and other enhancements...
Linux 6.15 Fixes A Performance Issue For Extremely Heavy Read-Only Workloads
Completely separate from the big performance regression I noted earlier this week for the Linux 6.15 Git kernel and fixed yesterday in the upstream codebase, another significant performance issue was also uncovered and fixed this week in Linux 6.15 Git...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Linux-6.15-Extreme-Heavy-Reads
New Patches Get Linux Booting On The Snapdragon X1-Powered Dell Inspiron 14 Plus
New Linux kernel patches have been posted adding the necessary Device Tree files so that Linux is able to boot on the Qualcomm Snapdragon X1 powered Dell Inspiron 14 Plus laptop...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Dell-Inspiron-14-Plus-Linux-X1E
AMD Publishes Open-Source GIM Driver For GPU Virtualization, Radeon "In The Roadmap"
AMD has published as open-source their "GPU-IOV Module" used for virtualization with Instinct accelerators. It's also reported on their roadmap for bringing virtualization support to their client (Radeon) discrete GPUs...
AMD Posts Open-Source Linux Patches For Pensando RDMA Driver
The newest open-source Linux driver being worked on by AMD engineers is a Remote Direct Memory Access (RDMA) solution for their Pensando networking hardware...
Ubuntu 25.10 Moving Ahead With Plans For Migrating To Rust Coreutils
Back in March some ideas were talked about by Canonical engineers for Ubuntu Linux to move to Rust Coreutils and other Rust-written system components. Some of this is likely to materialize for the Ubuntu 25.10 release due out in October to allow for sufficient testing ahead of the all important Ubuntu 26.04 LTS release next year. Today the more solidified plans have been laid out for moving to the Rust Coreutils as a replacement to GNU Coreutils with Ubuntu 25.10...
https://www.phoronix.com/news/Ubuntu-2510-Rust-Coreutils-Plan
Fedora 43 Change Proposal Filed For Removing GNOME X11 Packages: Wayland-Only GNOME
Following a lot of work in this direction toward the end goal of removing GNOME X11 support, this milestone may finally be acheived for the Fedora 43 cycle due out by the end of the year. A change proposal has been filed for removing the GNOME X11 packages in the repository and in turn making the GNOME desktop Wayland-only on Fedora Linux...