Wine Releases Framework Mono 6.14 In Taking Over The Mono Project
Last year Microsoft donated the Mono Project to Wine for its stewardship under the WineHQ umbrella. Today marks the Framework Mono 6.14 release as the first major Mono release in five years and the first under the WineHQ organization… ⌘ Read more

Rust Coreutils 0.0.30 Enhances GNU Compatibility, Uutils To Port More Common Unix Tools
The uutils project has released Rust Coreutils 0.0.30 as the newest version of this GNU Coreutils rewrite within the Rust programming language. Uutils developers will also be targeting more common Unix tools to port over to Rust too… ⌘ Read more

GTK On Android & macOS Seeing Improvements
In addition to Friday’s very exciting GNOME 48 release candidate with some last minute features, there have also been some other GNOME-related changes this week to call out… ⌘ Read more

Wine-Staging 10.3 Adds Patch For A 15 Year Old Bug
Building off yesterday’s release of Wine 10.3 is now Wine-Staging 10.3 for this more experimental version of Wine that is presently shipping 347 experimental/testing patches atop the upstream state… ⌘ Read more

KDE This Week Took Care Of “A Very Large Number Of Bugs”
KDE developer Nate Graham is out with the newest issue of This Week in Plasma to highlight all of the interesting KDE Plasma improvements merged for the week… ⌘ Read more

Wine 10.3 Wires Up Wayland Driver Clipboard Handling, Vulkan Video Decode Within WineD3D
Wine 10.3 was just released as the newest bi-weekly development release for this open-source software to run Windows applications and games under Linux and other platforms… ⌘ Read more

GNOME 48 Release Candidate Brings Late Mutter Features & Other Changes
The GNOME 48 release candidate “48.rc” is out this evening as we approach the stable release of the GNOME 48 desktop in two weeks… ⌘ Read more

Vulkan Video Continues Making Inroads, VP9 Decode Planned For This Year
At the Vulkanised 2025 conference a few weeks back in Cambridge (UK) there were a few presentations concerning Vulkan Video for this cross-vendor, cross-platform video encode/decode interface… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu To Revert “-O3” Optimizations, Continues Quest For Easier ARM64 Installations
Canonical engineer Matthieu Clemenceau has posted a status update on the behalf of the Ubuntu Foundations engineers now half-way through the Ubuntu 25.04 development cycle. A number of notable package updates have landed as well as continued work on better ARM64 support and coming to a decision over “-O3” optimized packages… ⌘ Read more

AMD Officially Confirms Ryzen 9 9900X3D + Ryzen 9 9950X3D Pricing & Availability
Back in January at CES was the Ryzen 9 9000X3D and Ryzen 9 9950X3D announcement while today AMD officially confirmed the release date and pricing on these new Zen 5 desktop CPUs with 3D V-Cache… ⌘ Read more

GCC 15 Now Enables AArch64 Early Scheduling For -O3/-Ofast Modes
The GCC “-fschedule-insns” option allows for reordering of instructions to eliminate execution stalls when required data is unavailable. This early scheduling option can be beneficial for systems with slow floating point performance or costly memory load instructions. With the upcoming GCC 15 release, AArch64 will be enabling this early scheduling optimization at the -O3 optimization level and higher… ⌘ Read more

Unofficial ROCm SDK Builder Expanded To Support More GPUs
The community-based ROCm SDK Builder is an unofficial project leveraging the open-source AMD ROCm code and making it easy to build machine learning and GPU compute software across a range of environments and helping ensure proper integration with other machine learning tools and models. The ROCm SDK Builder takes special focus on the consumer Radeon iGPUs and dGPUs that typically aren’t as much of a focus for the upstream AMD ROCm stack… ⌘ Read more

Intel Xe Driver Introducing SVM, EU Stall Sampling & Other New Features For Linux 6.15
Intel engineers today sent out their final drm-xe-next feature pull request to DRM-Next of the remaining features they are ready to land for the modern Intel Xe kernel graphics driver with the upcoming Linux 6.15 cycle. It’s a big one… ⌘ Read more

New Round Of Driver Optimizations For AMD RadeonSI In Mesa 25.1
Well known AMD Mesa driver developer Marek Olšák has been at it again working on some further performance optimizations to the open-source RadeonSI Gallium3D driver code… ⌘ Read more

Intel VSEC Driver Preps For Diamond Rapids In Linux 6.14
Sent out today was a batch of platform-drivers-x86 fixes for the ongoing Linux 6.14 kernel cycle. Notable among these fixes is introducing Intel Xeon “Diamond Rapids” support to the Intel VSEC driver… ⌘ Read more

Unexpected 2025 Flashback: New Linux Patches For AMD’s ARM-Based Opteron A1100 “Seattle”
A new set of patches hitting the Linux kernel mailing list today may cause some flashbacks and likely not on your 2025 bingo card… Some DeviceTree updates for AMD’s short-lived Opteron A1100 “Seattle” ARM SoC that was cancelled shortly after being announced back in 2016… ⌘ Read more

Apple Touch Bar Display Drivers Slated For Introduction In Linux 6.15
The upcoming Linux 6.15 kernel is expected to merge two new Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) display drivers for supporting the Apple Touch Bar displays on older Intel x86 Macs and a newer “ADP” driver for handling the Apple Touch Bar displays on the newer Apple M1/M2-powered MacBooks… ⌘ Read more

Ubuntu 25.10 Planning To Use Dracut By Default
For the past number of months there has been talk in the Ubuntu developer space around replacing initramfs-tools with Dracut for handling initrd generation. While there has been progress in switching to Dracut, they aren’t over the finish line yet and not until Ubuntu 25.10 are they planning to use Dracut by default… ⌘ Read more

Meta’s eBPF-Powered Strobelight Software Reduced CPU Cycles By 20%
Adding to the excitement around the possibilities provided by the in-kernel eBPF Linux tech, Meta shared that their Strobelight software they are working on open-sourcing for profiling across servers has yielded a 20% reduction in CPU cycles and in turn a 10-20% reduction in the number of required servers for Meta’s top services… ⌘ Read more

SiFive HiFive Premier P550 RISC-V Linux Performance
SiFive recently sent over a review sample of the much anticipated HiFive Premier P550 developer board, their newest RISC-V creation featuring four RISC-V cores, Imagination AXM-8-256 integrated GPU, Gigabit Ethernet, PCIe x16 slot, and 16GB or 32GB of RAM. The HiFive Premier P550 is a modern RISC-V developer board capable of desktop uses, developer build boxes, and similar with pricing starting out at $399 USD. Here is a look at the SiFive HiFive Premier P55 … ⌘ Read more

PipeWire 1.4 Released With MIDI 2.0 Support & Other New Features
Wim Taymans of Red Hat today released PipeWire 1.4 as the newest major update for this leading open-source software to replace PulseAudio, JACK, and other solutions on the modern Linux desktop for managing audio and video streams in a very excellent way… ⌘ Read more

Blender’s Vulkan Renderer Is Making Great Progress To Production Readiness This Year
With the release of Blender 4.3 last November an experimental Vulkan back-end was added and it continues to be improved upon for modernizing this 3D creation suite for digital artists and serving a variety of other purposes. The upcoming Blender 4.4 release will further refine the Vulkan support while later in the year it should be reaching production readiness… ⌘ Read more

FreeBSD Continues Working On 802.11n/802.11ac WiFi & Other Laptop Improvements
The FreeBSD Foundation paired with resources committed by AMD, Dell, and Framework are working to improve FreeBSD laptop support. In recent months there have been FreeBSD development efforts to improve the power management support with modern laptops as well as a strong focus on enhancing the WiFi driver support. A status update was issued yesterday for highlighting the latest FreeBSD laptops efforts… ⌘ Read more

FEX 2503 Brings Fixes & Multi-Block By Default For x86_64 Linux Binaries On ARM64
FEX 2503 is out as the newest monthly update to this open-source emulator that enables the ability to run Linux x86_64 binaries on Linux ARM64 (AArch64) hosts… ⌘ Read more

Mold 2.37 Linker Preps For Intel APX
Rui Ueyama released Mold 2.37 today as the newest feature update to this high performance linker as an alternative to GNU Gold and LLVM LLD… ⌘ Read more

AMD Announces “Instella” Fully Open-Source 3B Language Models
Another announcement at AMD today beyond the open-source Linux driver fun for the Radeon RX 9070 series is announcing the open-sourcing of Instella as their new fully open 3B parameter language models… ⌘ Read more

Intel Engineers To Return To Working On Habana Labs Linux Driver, Gaudi 3 Expected
After a few Habana Labs driver maintainers left Intel last year and the upstream open-source Habana Labs driver going on rather a hiatus, it looks like Intel software engineers will be returning to work on this upstream Linux kernel driver for supporting the Gaudi AI accelerators… ⌘ Read more

Xen 4.20 Hypervisor Released With AMD Zen 5 Support, More Performance Optimizations
The Xen Project announced the availability today of the Xen 4.20 virtualization hypervisor… ⌘ Read more

AMD Radeon RX 9070 + RX 9070 XT Linux Performance
Last week AMD formally announced the Radeon RX 9070 series graphics cards that will begin shipping tomorrow at $549 for the Radeon RX 9070 and $599 for the RX 9070 XT. Today the review embargo is lifted so we can now share Linux performance benchmarks and more details on the open-source Linux driver support for these first AMD RDNA4 graphics cards. ⌘ Read more

AMD Radeon RX 9070 Series Linux GPU Compute Performance
In addition to the Radeon RX 9070 series Linux gaming/graphics benchmarks with today’s embargo lift, I’ve also spent some time working on some GPU compute benchmarks for these first RDNA4 graphics cards. Here is a look at some initial GPU compute benchmarks of the Radeon RX 9070 and Radeon RX 9070 XT graphics cards, mostly on cross-vendor OpenCL benchmarks, and a few words on the GPU compute stack support for the Radeon RX 9070. ⌘ Read more

Making Vulkan More Of A “Joy To Use” Discussed At Vulkanised 2025
In addition to Vulkan-powered AI / machine learning talks at last month’s Vulkanised 2025 conference, another interesting topic at this annual Vulkan developer conference was around improving the Vulkan API and making it easier for new developers and maximizing the potential with new GPU hardware… ⌘ Read more

FreeDesktop.org GitLab Will Be Down For Up To One Week Due To Cloud Migration
The FreeDesktop.org GitLab instance that is heavily relied upon for the development of the Mesa graphics drivers, Wayland, and many other Linux desktop projects will be down for up to one week later this month due to its cloud migration… ⌘ Read more

More Apple SoC DeviceTree Additions Being Upstreamed For Linux 6.15
Sven Peter continues work on upstreaming more of the Apple SoC support to the mainline Linux kernel. On the DeviceTree side following the DT support for Apple T2 SoCs sent out last month, another set of updates were submitted this week ahead of the Linux 6.15 merge window… ⌘ Read more

AMD ZenDNN 5.0.1 Released To Help With EPYC Inferencing For Recommender Systems & LLMs
Released last year shortly after the EPYC 9005 “Turin” processor launch was ZenDNN 5.0 for Zen 5 optimized CPU inferencing with the likes of PyTorch and TensorFlow. ZenDNN 5.0 delivers up to a 400% performance uplift according to AMD engineers. Out today is ZenDNN 5.0.1 with further optimizations, particularly around recommendation engines and large language models (LLMs)… ⌘ Read more

LLVM/Clang 20.1 Released With AMX-AVX512, AMX-FP8, AVX10.2, AMD GFX950 & Much More
LLVM 20.1 was just tagged in Git as the first stable version of the LLVM 20 compiler stack including sub-projects like the Clang 20 C/C++ Compiler… ⌘ Read more

Firefox 137 Beta Now Available With VA-API Accelerated H.265/HEVC On Linux
With Firefox 136 released, Mozilla has promoted Firefox 137 to its beta phase… ⌘ Read more

Intel Finds More Women Getting Involved In Open-Source, Maintainer Burnout Continues
Intel has been running an annual open-source developer survey and they recently wrapped up their survey for 2024 and today published the results to provide various insight into the health of open-source development… ⌘ Read more

ExpressVPN Adds A GUI To Their Linux App
There are a number of NetworkManager VPN plug-ins for different virtual private networking providers as a great way for setting up VPN access from the Linux desktop. But for those interested in using ExpressVPN with their official Linux client, they now offer a GUI to ease the setup process for using their commercial VPN service and proprietary software package… ⌘ Read more

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Linux GPU Compute Performance
Ahead of NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 graphics cards seeing retail availability tomorrow, today the review embargo expires on the GeForce RTX 5070 Founders Edition graphics cards. I’ve been testing out the GeForce RTX 5070 under Linux and today have a number of GPU compute benchmarks to share. ⌘ Read more

Perforator 0.0.5 Released - Switches To Apache 2.0 License, Drops CLA Requirement
Open-sourced back in January was the Yandex Perforator as a new software project for uncovering code inefficiencies and potentially “save billions of dollars” in expenses. Perforator has continued evolving since its open-source announcement and out today is Perforator 0.0.5 as the latest milestone… ⌘ Read more

Linux’s AMD Radeon Vulkan Driver Adds Experimental Support For The BC-250 Mining Board
The AMD BC-250 is a crypto mining GPU launched by AMD back during the Bitcoin mining craze when it was profitable using GPUs for mining. At its heart is a Navi “RDNA1” GPU similar to the APU found within the Sony PlayStation 5. The AMD BC-250 can be found used these days for $50~100 USD and with the latest open-source Mesa graphics driver code for Linux systems can now be used with the Vulkan API for graphics/gaming… ⌘ Read more

Direct3D Video Decode To Vulkan Video API Being Worked On For Wine
In addition to mapping the Direct3D graphics API to Vulkan, Wine developers are working on mapping the Direct3D video acceleration APIs to work atop the Vulkan Video API… ⌘ Read more

Intel Revises DRM Sharpness Property For Use With Lunar Lake Sharpening Capabilities
Going back nearly one year Intel has been working on Linux driver support for a new adaptive sharpening filter with Lunar Lake graphics. That’s culminated into working on a common DRM sharpness property for communicating sharpness preferences and this week the latest patch series for that property was posted… ⌘ Read more

Rust-Written Redox OS Expands Use Of Dynamic Linking
The Redox OS open-source operating system written from scratch in the Rust programming language is continuing to enjoy nice progress in 2025 on its goals. The Redox OS project has published their February 2025 status update that highlights achievements made over the past month… ⌘ Read more

GNU Shepherd 1.0 Service Manager Released As “Solid Tool” Alternative To systemd
GNU Shepherd as a service manager for both system and user services that is used by Guix and relying on Guile Scheme has finally reached version 1.0. For those not pleased with systemd, GNU Shepherd can be used as an init system and now has finally crossed the version 1.0 milestone after 21 years of development… ⌘ Read more

Intel Arc Graphics A580 On Linux: Open-Source Graphics For Under $200
Last week Intel announced the Arc Graphics A580 as a new mid-range DG2/Alchemist graphics card option that comes in between the entry-level Arc Graphics A380 and the higher-end Arc Graphics A750/A770. With the Arc Graphics A580 coming in at under $200, it’s quite an interesting graphics card for those after open-source Linux driver support and/or those wanting to experiment with Intel’s growing oneAPI software ecosystem with excellent open-sou … ⌘ Read more

Blender Alpha Builds Enable Experimental Vulkan Option
The newest Blender alpha builds of the past week have enabled Vulkan API support as an experimental option on Windows and Linux… ⌘ Read more

LoongArch “Loong64” Added To Debian Ports
In addition to Debian promoting RISC-V to an official CPU architecture for the newly in development Debian 13 cycle, another CPU architecture/port change is adding LoongArch “Loong64” as a new Debian Port… ⌘ Read more

Thunderbird 115 Now Available & It Looks Fantastic
As a devoted Thunderbird mail client user for the past nearly twenty years since its first release, I’m elated today by the release of Thunderbird 115… ⌘ Read more

ReactOS “Open-Source Windows” Steadily Improving x64 Port
ReactOS is the open-source OS that’s striving for Microsoft Windows software and driver binary compatibility that is 25 years in the making. ReactOS has been making steady progress while still considered in alpha form. Most of the ReactOS successes and user tinkering has been with the 32-bit build of the OS while they have been making steady progress recently on the x86_64 (x64) port… ⌘ Read more

Libreboot 20230413 Released With Build System Improvements
Libreboot is the downstream of Coreboot focused on having fully open-source / free software replacements to proprietary BIOS/firmware on x86 and ARM systems. Out today is Libreboot 20230413 as the latest step forward for the project… ⌘ Read more