Linux Sound Subsystem Also Seeing Many Fixes Driven By AI/LLMs
…One major change is about HD-audio pending IRQ handling, but this would influence only on odd machines or slow VMs. There are a few other fixes for the core part, but…
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KDE Plasma 6.8 To Enjoy Huge Performance Gains For Multi-GPU/eGPU Performance
…bettering KWin's multi-GPU / external GPU handling. Plasma 6.8 is significantly improving the performance for external GPU setups / multi-GPU use on Linux. Xaver Hugl implemented DMA-BUF v6 support…
Canonical Now Considers Their Steam Snap For ARM64 To Be Stable
…Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 1 Released For Testing Ubuntu 26.10 Planning To Ship With The Linux 7.2 Kernel Canonical Releases Workshop As New Way Of Launching Development Environments Ubuntu Core…
Linux 7.1 Adds New AMD SMCA Bank Types, Presumably For Upcoming EPYC Venice
…The AMD Scalable Machine Check Architecture (SMCA) bank types are for representing different hardware units on modern AMD CPus for identifying and handling of errors. The bank types new to Linux 7…
Linux 7.3 Bringing A KCFI Optimization To Benefit Older Intel CPUs
…The patch is queued into tip/tip.git's x86/core Git branch. With that code now in a TIP branch, it's expected to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 7…
Redox OS Gets GTK3 Backend For Orbital Desktop, Fractional Scaling & USB Gamepads
…This Linux Distribution Carrying On The Mandrake Legacy CachyOS June 2026 OS Released With More Performance Optimizations ReactOS "Open-Source Windows" Project Now Capable Of Running Half-Life 2 Rust Coreutils cp…
Flatpak 1.18 Released With Integration For AMD ROCm
…Flatpak 1.18 brings improved error handling and better printed output from the flatpak-coredumpctl command. The output from flatpak update has also been enhanced. Another nice addition is the improved start…
Arm Preparing The Linux Kernel For 128-bit Page Table Entries "FEAT_D128"
A new core infrastructure improvement for the Linux kernel on ARM being worked on is enabling 128-bit page table entries (PTEs) with FEAT_D128 as a new optional feature of Armv9…
A Lot Of Rust Graphics Driver Changes For Linux 7.1, NVIDIA Nova Driver Additions
…and the Nova Core driver that is working to become a successor to the Nouveau kernel driver for open-source NVIDIA graphics. The Nova driver work for Linux 7.1 includes more…
Mir 2.26 Begins Working On Rust-Based Input Platform
…Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.3 Improves Handling Of Desktop Apps, Other Fixes Ubuntu's "AI Kill Switch" Is Achieved By Removing Snaps, Initially Opt-In Ubuntu Linux Will Begin Landing AI…