Last year LunarG announced KosmicKrisp as a new Vulkan implementation atop Apple’s Metal API. Initially targeting macOS, KosmicKrisp since was merged to Mesa and has evolved quite nicely as a modern implementation of Vulkan-on-Metal for Apple Silicon. It continues moving ahead with an eye for iOS, more performance optimizations, and completing Vulkan 1.4 support…

All of the Thunderbolt/USB driver changes were merged this week for the nearly-over Linux 7.0 merge window…

Ubuntu Touch 24.04-1.2 and 20.04 OTA-12 arrive with VoLTE stability improvements, a fix for Xperia X booting, and multiple bug and security updates.

Learn how to list and get information about all the block devices in your system using the lsblk command and its options, with practical examples.

It’s not too surprising but the upcoming Ubuntu 26.04 Long Term Support release will be transitioning to OpenJDK 25 as its default Java version…

Oracle outlines a new community engagement strategy for MySQL, promising greater transparency, ecosystem growth, and renewed focus on the Community Edition.

Ken Starks once wrote here every week. Now he’s back to tell you why FOSS Force still matters, why independence isn’t free, and why he’s chosen to contribute to this year’s drive.

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Ts’o, Hohndel and the man himself spill beans on how checks in the mail and GPL made it all possibleIf you know anything about Linux’s history, you’ll remember it all started with Linus Torvalds posting to the Minix Usenet group on August 25, 1991, that he was working on “a (free) operating system (just a hobby, won’t be big and professional like gnu) for 386(486) AT clones.” We know that the “hobby” operating system today is Linux, and except for PCs and Macs, it pretty much runs the world.…

‘Trixie’ doesn’t reinvent Debian so much as reaffirm it, with updated packages, subtle polish, and the same rock‑solid base that keeps it the go‑to choice for many serious Linux users.

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The Document Foundation announced LibreOffice 25.8.5 today as the fifth maintenance update to the latest LibreOffice 25.8 office suite series with various bug fixes.

Merged today to Mesa 26.1 Git is a one-line change to the Intel “ANV” Vulkan driver that is showing to deliver some slight performance benefits or up to 3% noted in some select games…

PipeWire 1.6 multimedia framework adds an LDAC decoder, raises the maximum channel limit to 128, and delivers major audio and Bluetooth improvements.

Linux block maintainer and IO_uring lead developer Jens Axboe recently was debugging some slowdowns in the AHCI/SCSI code with IO_uring usage. When turning to Claude AI to help in sorting through the issue, patches were devised that can deliver up to a “literally yield a 50-80x improvement on the io_uring side for idle systems.” The code is on its way to the Linux kernel…

Greg Kroah-Hartman has announced the 6.19.3, 6.18.13, 6.12.74, 6.6.127, 6.1.164, 5.15.201, and 5.10.251 stable kernels. As usual, each
includes important fixes and users are advised to upgrade.

The Gigabyte MZ33-AR1 is a single socket AMD EPYC 9004/9005 E-ATX server motherboard for those wanting up to 24 RDIMMs, dual 10 Gigabit LAN, and plenty of storage potential via six MCIO connectors and four PCIe Gen5 x16 slots. Beyond offering nice capabilities for this modern AMD EPYC server motherboard at a ~$700 USD price point, it’s uniquely positioned for an open-source firmware future thanks to ongoing work around AMD openSIL and hopefully followed by OpenBMC.

The newest addition to AMD’s ROCm/HIP portfolio is HIP Threads “hipThreads” as a C++ style concurrency library for AMD GPUs…

If you’ve been looking for an app to help you get to know Linux commands, Brief is a great option.

When searching for “MT7902” and “Linux” there is no shortage of users asking about Linux driver support for the Mediatek MT7902 WiFi chipset or users complaining about their MT7902 WiFi not working under Linux with that chipset found in numerous laptops in recent years. Fortunately, there is finally Linux driver support for the MT7902 surfacing for review on the Linux kernel mailing list…

Learn how to use Bash aliases to shorten commands, reduce errors, speed up tasks, and improve your productivity in the Terminal.

After delays, Weston 15.0 shipped this morning as the latest feature release to this reference Wayland compositor. Weston 15.0 comes in heavy on new features – including a Vulkan renderer in experimental form…