With the great upstream support for AMD Radeon graphics in the Linux kernel and Mesa, most desktop users / gamers / enthusiasts are best off just using the latest code shipped by their distributions or via the enthusiast-supported third-party archives/repositories. But for those on older enterprise Linux distributions, Radeon Software for Linux 25.20.3 was recently released for shipping that packaged AMD Linux graphics driver stack. This 25.20 series is the big one where they are now officially supporting the Mesa RADV Vulkan driver in place of their own former Vulkan Linux driver…

Following the release of ROCm 7.1 from just under one month ago, ROCm 7.1.1 is now available with expanded Linux operating system support, continued Instinct MI350 series work, more large language models working on RDNA4 GPUs, and other enhancements…

KDE’s Plasma team has announced
that KDE Plasma will drop X11 session support with Plasma 6.8:

The Plasma X11 session will be supported by KDE into early
2027.

We cannot provide a specific date, as we’re exploring the
possibility of shipping some extra bug-fix releases for Plasma
6.7. The exact timing of the last one will only be known when we get
closer to its actual release, which we expect will be sometime in
early 2027.

What if I still really need X11?

This is a perfect use case for long term support (LTS)
distributions shipping older versions of Plasma. For example,
AlmaLinux 9 includes the Plasma X11 session and will be supported
until sometime in 2032.

See the blog post for information on running X11 applications
(still supported), accessibility, gaming, and more.

It’s been just over one year now since the launch of the Core Ultra 9 285K and other Arrow Lake desktop processors. For those that may be considering an Arrow Lake CPU this holiday season for a Linux desktop or just curious how the power and performance has evolved one year later, here are some leading-edge benchmarks of the Intel Core Ultra 9 285K compared to the launch-day performance last October.

KDE developers announced they are going “all-in on a Wayland future” and with the Plasma 6.8 desktop it will become Wayland-exclusive. The Plasma X11 session is going away…

A Fedora special interest group is being proposed to help improve production stability of Fedora Linux and better handling incident management when problems do arise…

Python, a versatile and widely used programming language, has a sophisticated package management system called pip. Pip is used to easily install and manage Python packages. PIP is a package management system used to install and manage software packages or libraries written in Python

NVIDIA engineers are interested in helping Google bring Vulkan Video accelerated GPU video decoding to the Chrome/Chromium web browser…

Sean Christopherson of Google sent out the pull requests to the KVM tree of the various x86_64-related areas of virtualization he oversees. With these updates ahead of the Linux 6.19 merge window there is a significant overhaul of Intel’s Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) code to address various outstanding problems…

Following the release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.1 earlier this month, Rocky Linux 10.1 is now available for this popular community-driven alternative to RHEL 10.1…

The unset command is a built-in Linux command used for flushing the value of variables or functions during program execution.

The hardened NovaCustom modular SHIFTphone 8.1 is here! We detail its unique features and how NovaCustom make it a better choice for sustainability and privacy.

Discover a step-by-step guide to install the latest version of Remmina on Ubuntu and other Linux distributions, with practical examples.

LXD 6.6 introduces placement groups, a Kubernetes CSI driver, improved volume recovery, and support for new HPE Alletra storage.

The set command is a built-in Linux command that can display or modify the value of shell attributes and positional parameters inside the current shell environment.

Announced last month was the NTFSPLUS driver as a new NTFS file-system driver for the Linux kernel with better write performance and more features compared to the existing NTFS options. A second iteration of that driver was recently queued into “ntfs-next” raising prospects that this NTFSPLUS driver could soon attempt to land in the mainline Linux kernel…

FreeBSD 15.0-RC3 shipped just a few days ago as what was expected to be the final release candidate before FreeBSD 15.0 stable is officially unveiled next week. But squeezing out today is FreeBSD 15.0-RC4 to address last minute issues…

Behind the £70,000 figure is a story of sockpuppets, absent evidence, and a failed counterclaim.

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GNOME 48.7 desktop environment is out, delivering fixes across Shell, Mutter, GTK3, and core apps.

Those following Phoronix and the open-source AMD Linux kernel graphics driver know that the HDMI Forum has prevented AMD from implementing HDMI 2.1 support in their open-source “AMDGPU” driver as due the driver implementation would run afoul to the organization’s licensing requirements. It’s been pointed out online this week that the AMD-Xilinx DRM driver though does have some HDMI 2.1 support albeit different hardware…