Linux Might Finally Disable The Microsoft RNDIS Protocol Drivers In 2026
…RNDIS is known to be a fundamental security issue but disabling them has proven to be a drawn out process with some apparent users still left making use of the RNDIS Linux…
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KDE Plasma 6.7 Addresses 5 Year Old Request For Easier Microphone Testing
…This Week in Plasma is out with its latest issue to summarize the key developments in the Plasma world over the past week. This week some of the most interesting highlights include…
RADV Driver Enables Host Image Copy By Default For RDNA2 & Newer
…Last year RADV landed experimental support for https://www.phoronix.com/news/RADV-Experimental-HIC but was disabled by default due to possible performance issues. Finally now though with updated AMD ADDRLIB…
Ubuntu To Ship Newer AMD ROCm Updates Via SRUs
…This process allows us to provide support for the latest AMD hardware and new ROCm features without requiring users to wait for a completely new Ubuntu release. We are currently working on…
Plasma 6.7 Improves Its Built-In Remote Desktop Server, Enhances Plasma Notifications
…This Week in Plasma is out with its latest issue to highlight the latest improvements for Plasma 6.7 ahead of its stable release in June. Some early Plasma 6.8 work…
Ubuntu Linux Will Begin Landing AI Features Throughout The Next Year
…LTS Will Now Automatically Install HWE/OEM Kernel Packages Ubuntu Rust Coreutils Audit Revealed 113 Issues, Ubuntu 26.10 Aims For "100% Rust Coreutils" Ubuntu Looks Toward More Snap-Based Devpacks Moving…
KDE Plasma 6.8 To Support System Monitor With Intel Xe, Plasma 6.7 Sees More Crash Fixes
…This Week in Plasma is out with its newest issue to highlight the interesting developments in recent days. This week some of the Plasma highlights include: - Coming for Plasma 6.8 and…
HDMI FRL Support Achieved With Open-Source Nouveau For NVIDIA GPUs
…helping: "I used claude code to iterate on this a bunch to solve the ordering issues and align with NVIDIA programming sequences." These four patches get HDMI FRL going for the Nouveau…
Valve Creates The Ray-Tracing Inspector "RTI" To Help Further Optimize Linux GPU Drivers
…It will be possible moving forward to extend RTI to covering other hardware/drivers with different back-ends. Building it can be done via the "-D tools=rti" Meson build option. This…
Mesa 26.1 RADV Driver Merges Vulkan Descriptor Heap As Big Improvement For Steam Play
…This addresses issues uncovered with VK_EXT_descriptor_buffer and should provide more portable guarantees and more predictable performance characteristics. NVIDIA added descriptor heap support in their R595 Linux driver while now…