Well, here is a weekend surprise… Red Hat engineer and Rusticl lead developer Karol Herbst has opened a Mesa merge request for “CLUDA” as a compute-only driver that implements the Gallium3D API atop the NVIDIA CUDA driver API. Wow…

Intel engineers continue working on SR-IOV support for the Xe open-source kernel driver as part of Project Battlematrix for ensuring good virtualization support for the latest Intel GPUs on Linux…

Patches were posted this week for implementing Microsoft’s extensions around the ACPI fan device for allowing the operating system to set fan speed trip points. In turn this should help some HP systems and likely other OEMs too in getting fan information working under Linux…

Git developers have been talking in recent weeks around release plans for Git 3.0. If all goes well we could potentially see Git 3.0 released before the end of 2026…

The first beta release of the FreeBSD 15 operating system is now available for testing…

The long-anticipated LMDE (Linux Mint Debian Edition) 7 release is now available for download based on the Debian GNU/Linux 13 “Trixie” operating system series.

Merged today for the Mesa 25.3 graphics driver code is enabling support for more PowerVR Imagination GPUs within the “PVR” Vulkan driver albeit not officially supported nor in active development. Your mileage may vary but for some users with certain GPUs may work out well enough…

The Linux 6.18 merge window is winding down this weekend ahead of Linux 6.18-rc1 expected on Sunday. Merged today were some remaining x86 core updates, which includes a Retpoline optimization patch intended to help out Intel E core CPUs…

The Solus Linus project is preparing for an “epoch bump” so they can make breaking / high-impact changes to in effect bump the binary version of their package repository…

Last week during the Intel Tech Tour in Arizona, the Intel XPU Manager 1.3.3 software was released. Intel XPU Manager is a management and monitoring tool focused on Intel data center GPUs for simplifying administration, reliability, and maximizing utilization. Somewhat surprisingly, the Intel XPU Manager now deprecated the Data Center GPU Max Series as well as the Data Center GPU Flex Series…

OpenSSH 10.2 addresses bugs and prepares to deprecate SHA1 SSHFP records, pushing for stronger, SHA256-based security.

Intel engineer and Linux power management subsystem maintainer Rafael Wysocki posted a set of patches this week to simplify the energy model used by Core Ultra hybrid systems with a mix of P and E cores while lacking SMT support, such as with the current Lunar Lake SoCs and upcoming Panther Lake…

Besides last-minute breakage with some executables over the switch to Rust Coreutils, Ubuntu 25.10 ended up shipping with broken Flatpak support…

For going along with the recent release of the GNOME 49 desktop, Phosh 0.50 has been released for this Wayland compositor focused on mobile devices…

KDE developer Nate Graham describes this week as having seen a “massive amount of stability work” for the Plasma 6.5 desktop. Among the many fixes to land this week for this next Plasma desktop release were fixing the second and third most common causes of Plasma crashes. Additionally, the most prolific common crash scenario was discovered to be caused by third-party code…

Orange Pi has introduced the Orange Pi 6 Plus, a single-board computer intended for high-performance and AI-oriented computing tasks. It uses the CIX CD8180/CD8160 SoC with a 12-core 64-bit CPU and an NPU rated at up to 45 TOPS. The SoC includes a 12-core architecture paired with an integrated graphics processor supporting hardware-accelerated ray tracing […]

Kdenlive 25.08.2 open-source video editor brings major stability fixes, improved clip handling, and polished frei0r effects.

Just over one year ago NVIDIA posted open-source Linux GPU driver code for GPU virtualization “vGPU” support. That NVIDIA vGPU driver work was recently revised while still posted under a request for comments (RFC) flag…

Pacsea is a new Rust-written terminal TUI for Arch Linux that unifies official and AUR package searches into a single interface.

Ubuntu 25.10 Network Disabled After Reboot? Do not panic! Here’s How to Fix it.