PipeWire 1.4.2 multimedia framework fixes MIDI CPU issues, improves pw-cat streaming, and resolves crashes.

The first Linux patch was posted today by an Intel engineer that explicitly mentions “Bartlett Lake” in opening the door for any other Linux kernel patches explicitly catering to Bartlett Lake processors…

Oracle today debuted the newest version of their Unbreakable Enterprise Kernel “UEK” designed to be paired with their RHEL-derived Oracle Linux operating system as a heavily-patched version of the Linux kernel. With today’s release of UEK 8 they have rebased atop the current Linux 6.12 long-term support codebase…

PinePods is a Rust-based podcast management system that supports multiple users and relies on a central database with clients to connect to it.

The PipeWire project released today PipeWire 1.4.2 as a minor update to the latest PipeWire 1.4 series for this popular open-source server for handling audio/video streams and hardware on Linux systems.

PanVK, the open source Vulkan driver for Arm Mali GPUs, has reached a new milestone and is now officially conformant with the Vulkan 1.1 specification on the Arm Mali-G610 GPU

After nearly one and a half decades after the packaging request was made, GNOME Shell Frippery extensions have finally worked their way into Debian via the unstable archive for offering a GNOME2-like desktop experience…

For fans of the Arch-based Manjaro Linux distribution, the distribution team announced the public alpha release of Manjaro Summit: a new semi-immutable flavor along similar lines to Fedora Silverblue, Nitrux, Aeryn OS, openSUSE Aeon, and others…

While LLVM LLD and Mold are two popular linkers on Linux systems with the latter being known for its impressive speed and much faster than GNU LD and Gold, this past week Qualcomm open-sourced a new linker: ELD…

The work talked about back in January for improving the 32-bit PAE Linux kernel code for Physical Address Extensions to better jive with the code around Page Table Isolation (PTI) for mitigating the Meltdown vulnerability could soon be merged…

MX Linux 23.6 has just been officially released today as the newest ISO snapshot in the MX Linux 23 “Libretto” series of this lightweight Debian-based GNU/Linux distribution for everyday use.

PeaZip 10.4 open-source file archiver enhances stability, error handling, and UI adaptability with new theme support, smarter context menus, and more.

Earlier this month I looked at the AMD RDNA 3.5 graphics with Strix Point between Windows 11 and Ubuntu 25.04 Linux. The testing showed the AMD RDNA 3.5 graphics on the open-source Linux driver up to around 96% the performance of Radeon Software on Windows. The most frequent question that came up from that most recent round of benchmarking was wondering how the Intel Xe2 graphics on Core Ultra Series 2 “Lunar Lake” now compares between Windows 11 and Linux given that both drivers have been maturing the past several months. Here’s the story of the Xe2 graphics between Windows 11 and Ubuntu 25.04 while using a Lenovo ThinkPad X1 Carbon Gen 13 Aura Edition laptop.

Version
3.0 of the Pinta
image editor has been released. The most notable change in this
release is that Pinta has been ported to GTK 4.0 and libadwaita. It
also includes a number of improvements, new effects, and bug fixes.

Game engines are referred to as “game middleware” because they provide a flexible and reusable software platform.

BPF is, famously, not part of the kernel’s promises of user-space stability. New
kernels can and do break existing BPF programs; the BPF developers try to
fix unintentional regressions as they happen, but the whole thing can be something of a bumpy
ride for users trying to deploy BPF programs across multiple kernel versions.
Shung-Hsi Yu and Daniel Xu had two different approaches to fixing the problem
that they presented at the 2025 Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF Summit.

Andrew Morton, the lead maintainer for the kernel’s memory-management
subsystem, tends to be quiet during the Linux Storage, Filesystem,
Memory-Management, and BPF Summit, preferring to let the developers work
things out on their own. That changes, though, when he leads the
traditional development-process session in the memory-management track. At
the 2025 gathering, this discussion covered a number of ways in which the
process could be improved, but did not unearth any significant problems.

Being worked on for a while now by engineers from Amazon, Microsoft, and Google has been Kexec HandOver “KHO” as a means of allowing some kernel state to be retained when Kexec’ing into a new kernel such as for maintenance/security updates. The KHO patches in recent days were queued up into Andrew Morton’s “MM” staging area leading to hope that this work is ready for mainlining with the Linux 6.16 kernel cycle this summer…

Debian-based MX-23.6 refreshes the MX-23 series with new kernels, UI enhancements, and fixes for Xfce, NVIDIA, UEFI tools, and more.

Linux has a good selection of versatile open source screenshot programs, both graphical and console based. This roundup focuses on command-line tools.