Category Archives: Linux

Three stable kernels under the sky

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Greg Kroah-Hartman has released three more stable kernels:
6.13.3,
6.12.14, and
6.6.78.
There was a bit of confusion that resulted in the patch for
CVE 2025-21687
getting applied twice — but that doesn’t result in any problems for users of the
kernel, just a bit of extra noise in the CVE database, so Kroah-Hartman has
decided to leave the releases as-is instead of rushing another point release.

NVIDIA GeForce GTX 980 Through GeForce RTX 5080/5090 GPU Compute Performance

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Complementing the recent Linux GPU benchmarks of the NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5080 and GeForce RTX 5090 looking at both the Linux / Steam Play gaming performance as well as GPU compute and other areas, in today’s testing is a wide multi-generation look seeing how the NVIDIA GeForce performance has evolved going back to the GeForce GTX 980 Maxwell GPUs up through the newest GeForce RTX 5080/5090 graphics cards.

RADV Lands Initial DCC Support For AMD GFX12 / RDNA4 GPUs

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Last month when the state of the open-source RADV Vulkan driver for RDNA4 GPUs was outlined, it was noted that cooperative matrix support was missing along with DCC support and Vulkan Video for these upcoming Radeon RX 90×0 GPUs. Vulkan cooperative matrix support ended up being merged earlier this month while hitting Mesa Git today is the DCC support that is important for RDNA4 performance…

Why Linux Mint Is My Main Distro

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Since I started using Linux over a decade ago, I’ve been a Mint fan. Over the years I’ve tried using other distros—and tried some really weird stuff, often in service of How-to Geek—but Linux Mint has always remained my daily driver and I’ve never seriously considered getting rid of it. Here’s why I like it.

Kernel prepatch 6.14-rc3

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The 6.14-rc3 kernel prepatch is out for
testing; the announcement, for unknown reasons, went only to the
linux-btrfs list.

So the first few weeks of the 6.14 release development were
smaller-than-usual, but rc3 is actually right in line with normal
releases at this point. Probably just timing of pull requests, and
we’ll see how next week goes. But nothing looks worrisome.

Along with the usual stream of fixes, this release includes the “faux bus“, designed
for simple drivers that just need some sort of virtual bus to be associated
with; this bus come with Rust bindings from the
outset.

Contribute at the Fedora Test Day for WSL

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The Windows Subsystem for Linux (WSL) folks are working on the final integration of Fedora images for users in WSL. As a result, we have organized a test day on Monday,February 17, 2025 . The wiki page in this article contains links to the test images you’ll need to participate. Please continue reading for details.