New Patches Provide HDMI 1.4 3D Mode Support For AMD Radeon Graphics On Linux
It turns out one of the feature limitations of the AMDGPU Linux graphics driver is HDMI 1.4 3D output support with frame packing, top-and-bottom, and side-by-side options for transmitting simultaneous video streams. I wasn’t aware of this limitation for the lack of any 3D displays and many Linux enthusiasts/gamers as well, but if you happen to have a compatible HDMI 1.4 3D display, there are pending patches to finally make this a reality … ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 To Support Realtek RTL8127atf & RTL8116af Networking
Queued this past week into the net-next development tree of the latest networking additions for the Linux kernel is enabling support for Realtek’s newer RTL8127atf and RTL8116af wired networking ASICs… ⌘ Read more
FEX 2609 Released With Speedier JIT Performance, JIT Disk Cache Option
FEX 2609 was released overnight as the newest monthly feature release for this open-source emulator that allows running Linux x86_64 binaries on AArch64, including the likes of Steam and Steam Play (Proton) for enabling Windows games to run rather well on ARM64 Linux systems… ⌘ Read more
LLVM Merges Support For AMD’s RMPCHKD, RMPREAD & RMPOPT Instructions
With the Linux kernel still working toward landing support for AMD’s RMPOPT optimization for helping to reduce overhead on SEV-SNP enabled servers, the LLVM/Clang compiler has in turn prepped for the milestone by landing support for the RMPOPT, RMPREAD, and RMPCHKD instructions for Zen 5 and newer… ⌘ Read more
Beam Eye Tracker gets Linux and macOS support
After being in Beta for a while, Linux and macOS support has arrived for the clever Beam Eye Tracker app.
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CoolerControl app for Linux v5.0 brings a big overhaul
Managing various types of coolers under Linux has never looked sleeker! The latest CoolerControl v5.0.0 release is out now.
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Linux Preps For New AMD Zen 6 BTB CTX Isolation Security Feature
A recently posted Linux kernel patch has revealed a new security improvement with Zen 6 processors… ⌘ Read more
Nouveau Preparations For HDMI 2.1 DSC, AMD HDMI FreeSync Fixes For Linux 7.4
Last week’s set of DRM-Misc-Next changes submitted to DRM-Next with targeting the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel cycle features HDMI 2.1 related work for both the AMDGPU kernel driver as well as the Nouveau open-source NVIDIA driver… ⌘ Read more
Intel’s Dynamic PAMT Appears Ready For Linux 7.4 To Help With TDX Memory Overhead
Intel’s Dynamic PAMT feature looks like it’s finally going to be ready for mainline with Linux 7.4. The Intel Dynamic PAMT is used for helping to reduce memory overhead when making use of Trusted Domain Extensions (TDX) for confidential VMs… ⌘ Read more
Asahi Linux now officially supports Macs with the M3 series SoC
Asahi Linux is a project and community with the goal of porting Linux to Apple Silicon Macs - and now it supports Macs with the M3 series SoC.
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Lossless Scaling’s frame generation for Linux lsfg-vk 2.0 is out now
The popular lsfg-vk project that brings Lossless Scaling’s frame generation to Linux now has the big 2.0 release officially out.
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Bazzite Linux 44 gets even more fixes for September 6th
The Bazzite Linux team continue powering through getting lots of updates since the recent major Bazzite 44 release for handhelds.
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Linux 7.3-rc2 Released Following Another Busy Week
After the Linux 7.3 merge window concluded last weekend, today we are up to the Linux 7.3-rc2 test kernel release in working toward the stable v7.3 kernel during the second half of October… ⌘ Read more
Shotcut 26.9 Video Editor Beta Brings UI Improvements, Better Audio Quality
Following the recent Shotcut stable release with a stock asset library and other improvements, Shotcut 26.9 Beta is out today with yet more improvements for this open-source video editing application for Linux, macOS, and Windows systems… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3-rc2 Scheduler Fix For Cache Aware Load Scheduling Misfits On Hybrid CPUs
Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc2 kernel being released later today, a set of scheduler fixes have been sent out for this week’s kernel test release. Most notable with the scheduler fixes are dealing with possible misfits for Cache-Aware Load Scheduling on hybrid CPUs like Intel Core (Ultra) processors… ⌘ Read more
Asahi Linux Now Officially Supports Apple M3 Macs - With Caveats
Asahi Linux developers announced today that they are now officially supporting the Linux distribution on Apple M3 powered Macs. With the exception of the Mac Studio M3 Ultra, other M3 / M3 Pro / M3 Max devices should now work with the latest Asahi Linux builds but with some feature caveats… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3-rc2 Transitions More kmalloc Calls To The Superior kmalloc_obj
Ahead of the Linux 7.3-rc2 kernel release due out later today, a merge causing a lot of code churn was pulled in by Linus Torvalds. This tree-wide effort converts more of the kmalloc() function calls over to the newer and superior kmalloc_obj() family of functions… ⌘ Read more
Slackware-Based Zenwalk ISOs Updated With Linux 7.1, Flatpak Integrated + Xfce 4.20
It’s been over four years since the original release of Zenwalk 15.0 while released today is a new Zenwalk Current Milestone snapshot. This Slackware-based Linux distribution with a long history has an exciting update out for testing this weekend… ⌘ Read more
Ikey Doherty Plans To Show How To “Properly” Build A Modern Linux Distro
Ikey Doherty is back in the Linux distribution space. Sort of. Ikey Doherty who was the founder of the Solus Linux distribution as well as Serpent OS (now AerynOS) as well as having been employed by Intel on their Clear Linux team is back at it again in the Linux space… ⌘ Read more
WARDOGS developers clarify Linux support via Proton may come later
It seems the upcoming shooter WARDOGS will actually not have Linux support with Proton at launch.
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NVIDIA Posts vGPU Manager & VFIO Variant Driver For Open-Source Nova
NVIDIA continues building out more functionality around the open-source, upstream Nova kernel graphics driver within the Linux kernel. Making it out to the mailing list this Saturday is a set of 13 patches for introducing a NVIDIA vGPU manager and VFIO variant driver… ⌘ Read more
Nouveau Lands Display Fixes For NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs As It Works Toward HDMI 2.1
This week’s Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) fixes that were merged ahead of Sunday’s Linux 7.3-rc2 release contain a number of fixes to the open-source Nouveau driver’s display support for current-generation NVIDIA Blackwell GPUs… ⌘ Read more
Linux Patches Posted For Initial Enablement Of The Apple A18 Pro + MacBook Neo
In addition to Linux developers focused on Apple Silicon being busy enabling functionality for the M3 and newer SoCs under the Linux kernel, there are also developers working on enabling the A18 Pro SoC used by the new, budget-friendly MacBook Neo laptop. Patches were posted this week for initial enablement of the A18 Pro and the MacBook Neo Device Tree… But even with these patches, the Linux support is still severely limited … ⌘ Read more
Wine 11.17 Released With Initial Support For Display Mode Emulation
Wine 11.17 is out today as the newest bi-weekly feature development release for this software enabling Windows games and apps to run on Linux… ⌘ Read more
Amazon Linux 2027 Shows Off Nice Performance Gains On AMD EPYC In The AWS Cloud
Yesterday AWS announced the public preview of Amazon Linux 2027 as their successor to the current Amazon Linux 2023 in-house distribution. With all the software upgrades and improvements like building packages now with link-time optimizations (LTO), enforcing x86-64-v3 builds, and other changes, I was eager to run some performance benchmarks of Amazon Linux 2023 vs. Amazon Linux 2027 in the EC2 cloud. ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.4 To Improve Apple Silicon Audio Support & Its “Impossible” Power Management
The Apple Silicon audio driver code within the Linux kernel is preparing to make use of the recent shared GPIO infrastructure for allowing multiple drivers / kernel components to nicely share the same GPIO lines. This should help clean things up in the mainline kernel for the Apple Silicon audio support and with a cleaner architecture than the current downstream Asahi Linux code… ⌘ Read more
Fedora 47 Considering Use Of Thin LTO Compiler Optimizations
A change proposal filed for what would be part of Fedora Linux 47 is on making use of Thin LTO rather than Fat LTO for link-time optimizations. With Thin LTO being more memory efficient and faster build speeds, the hope is that more Fedora packages could also use Thin LTO for packages where no link-time optimizations are currently leveraged… ⌘ Read more
Vulkan 1.4.362 Released With New Extension Developed By Valve
Vulkan 1.4.362 is out this morning as the newest routine spec update. Making Vulkan 1.4.362 more notable beyond a couple bug fixes are two new Vulkan API extensions, both of which were worked on by Valve’s Linux graphics team and one of them being a Valve vendor extension… ⌘ Read more
Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 3 Monthly ISOs Released For Testing
Released tonight is Ubuntu 26.10 “Stonking Stingray” Snapshot 3 as the newest monthly ISO candidates for Ubuntu Linux… ⌘ Read more
Amazon Linux 2027 Now in Preview: Powered By Linux 7.1, x86-64-v3 & Built With LTO
AWS announced today the public preview of Amazon Linux 2027. Given the time since Amazon Linux 2023, Amazon Linux 2027 comes with a heavy arsenal of software updates as well as many performance optimizations and other tuning for better running workloads geared for the AWS cloud… ⌘ Read more
Intel Improving Its Content Match Refresh Rate “CMRR” Feature With Linux 7.4
Introduced with the Xe2 Lunar Lake graphics hardware was support for Content Match Refresh Rate (CMRR) as an improvement over typical Variable Refresh Rate (VRR) / Adaptive-Sync to more precisely match the video or content frame rates. Particularly for video playback it aims for no stuttering or frame drops. With the upcoming Linux 7.4 kernel will be better support for CMRR with the Intel graphics driver… ⌘ Read more
21st Revision Of Patches For Getting Linux To Shutdown Devices Asynchronously
Being worked on for over two years has been the latest attempt for async device shutdown support for Linux for getting Linux systems – especially servers with lots of hardware like many NVMe drives – to shutdown faster. That work is now up to its 21st version as it works toward hopefully making it to the mainline kernel in the not too distant future… ⌘ Read more
Linux 7.3 Now Disabling RandStruct Security Feature By Default If Rust Support Present
While Rust programming language use may help with memory safety and other security advantages, the default Linux kernel configuration is now losing randomization of sensitive kernel structures if Rust support is present… ⌘ Read more
InputPlumber 0.79 Adds Support For More Handhelds
InputPlumber is the open-source router and remapping daemon for Linux that is particularly popular among Linux gaming handhelds for combining multiple input devices and translating actions into various virtual device formats. InputPlumber supports emulating mouse, keyboard, ad gamepad inputs. With the new InputPlumber 0.79 release there is expanded hardware support and bug fixes… ⌘ Read more
Star Wars Episode I: The Phantom Menace preservation project OpenPhantom adds Linux support via Wine / Proton
Star Wars: Episode I – The Phantom Menace, the video game from 1999 is a bit of a blast from the past and now kept alive by OpenPhantom.
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Lemonade 11.9 Local AI Server Released With Super Exciting AMD ROCm HRX Backend
Lemonade 11.9 is out today as the newest feature release to this AMD-backed, open-source local AI server solution across Linux, Windows, and macOS. Lemonade has long been focused on offering “100% free and private” AI use with local hardware whether it be GPUs, CPUs, or NPUs. With Lemonade 11.9’s release today it’s very interesting for having experimental ROCm HRX back-end support with Llama.cpp. HRX is the new exciting thing to watch o … ⌘ Read more
1Password Wades Into a Right-Wing Mess After Funding a Linux Project
1Password is facing customer and internal employee backlash after pledging $300,000 to support a Linux distro created by David Heinemeier Hansson, who has regularly published racist and anti-immigrant rhetoric. “The popular password manager is now a ‘distinguished corporate patron’ of Omacom, the nonprofit foundation that oversees a popul … ⌘ Read more
CERN Transitioning From RHEL To Debian
Longtime Slashdot reader Microsplat: CERN plans to have all 2,200+ industrial computers and embedded systems in its accelerator-control infrastructure running Debian 13 by the end of 2026. These are systems used for accelerator control, laboratory equipment and other operational functions … They also generate and interact with a hefty amount of data, although this Linux.com article refers more … ⌘ Read more
NVIDIA-Started Open Secure AI Alliance Moves To The Linux Foundation
Earlier this year NVIDIA led an effort with more than two dozen other companies to launch the Open Secure AI Alliance with a focus on keeping open-source AI models secure. The Open Secure AI Alliance today is transitioning from being stewarded by NVIDIA to becoming a Linux Foundation project… ⌘ Read more
Early Benchmarks Of AMD EPYC On Linux 7.3 Show Some Performance Gains On The Horizon
With Linux 7.3-rc1 out this week and marking the end of the merge window, it’s onto a lot of Linux 7.3 performance testing at Phoronix and looking at all the new features of Linux 7.3. In today’s article is a first look at the AMD EPYC Turin server performance on Linux 7.3-rc1 compared to Linux 7.2 stable with a few nice performance improvements to show. ⌘ Read more
CERN Transitioning To Debian After Being A Longtime RHEL Institution
CERN, the European Organization for Nuclear Research, besides being well known for its Large Hadron Collider (LHC) is known among longtime Linux users as a RHEL/CentOS shop. CERN formally even co-maintained the Scientific Linux RHEL derivative with other educational/research institutions in the past. So to much surprise now, CERN is transitioning to Debian Linux… ⌘ Read more
AVX-512 xor_gen For Linux Updated & Looking Real Good For RAID Arrays
Being worked on the past few months for the Linux kernel has been an AVX-512 optimized version of xor_gen() that is used for generating and validating parity blocks such as with Linux’s software RAID 5 and RAID 6 arrays. The latest iteration of AVX-512 xor_gen() was posted today and shows some impressive results on AMD Zen 5 hardware… ⌘ Read more
Greg KH Forewarns Of “Rough” Linux 7.3 Kernel Cycle Due To Continued AI Churn
While Linux 7.3-rc1 only released this week and there are another roughly seven weeks to go until the official kernel release, Linux’s second-in-command Greg Kroah-Hartman is already warning that it’s likely to be another “rough” kernel cycle given the ongoing noise caused by AI/LLM with the increase in bug reports and kernel patches… ⌘ Read more
s&box from Facepunch now has Native Linux support on Steam
After a short Beta release, Facepunch have now updated s&box on Steam to provide Native Linux support.
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Steam Linux user share dips below 4% for August 2026
The Steam Hardware & Software Survey for August 2026 is now live, and with it we can see the latest system details for gamers on Steam.
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Steam On Linux Dips Below 4% For August
Valve just published the Steam Survey results for August 2026. After jumping above 4% in July, in August it fell back below that threshold. Meanwhile CachyOS continues gaining ground among Linux gamers… ⌘ Read more
AMDGPU Linux Driver’s Latest Patches For HDMI Passive VRR Support
As part of AMD’s ongoing effort for getting HDMI 2.1 support squared away in their upstream AMDGPU kernel graphics driver, sent out today were the latest patches around passive variable refresh rate “Passive VRR” for HDMI connections… ⌘ Read more
Linux Gets A Reverse-Engineered Driver For ASUS ROG NVMe Enclosure RGB Lighting
If you are into RGB lighting, you can even find NVMe external enclosures these days with RGB LEDs like the ASUS ROG Strix Arion. Now thanks to reverse engineering there is a Linux driver for allowing the RGB lighting controls for the ASUS ROG Strix Arion NVMe enclosure… ⌘ Read more
Lekuo SouthBridge Max Puts An AMD B650 Chipset Onto A PCIe Card For More I/O
For those looking at expanding the SATA, NVMe, and/or the USB/USB-C capabilities of your system, the Lekuo SouthBridge Max PB65MX3 is an interesting creation that I have been trying out. The Lekuo SouthBridge Max puts an AMD B650 chipset onto a low-profile PCIe add-in card to provide all of the above without any bifurcation required. Given that it’s an AMD B650 chipset, it also “just works” nicely under Linux. ⌘ Read more
systemd 262-rc1 Released With Live Update Orchestrator Integration & More
Debuting today is systemd 262-rc1 as the first test release of this next major update to this Linux init system and service manager… ⌘ Read more