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AMD's Latest Wares, NVIDIA RTX 50 & Kernel Changes Excited Linux Users So Far In 2025

Wayland Is On Track For A Very Exciting 2025

Linux 6.15 Perf Tooling Introduces New Support For Latency Profiling

wlroots Merges Wayland Color Management / HDR Support

Dasharo Platform Driver Aims To Enhance The Experience Using This Coreboot Downstream

Redis-Forked Valkey 8.1 Released - Turns To AVX2 For Better Performance

Linux 6.15 exFAT Can Delete Files Much Faster: 4+ Minutes To 1.6 Second Optimization

AMD Software Advancements, RDNA4 & Ryzen 9900X3D Series Excited Linux Users In Q1

FreeBSD On Laptops Sees New Power Management Driver, WiFi 4 / WiFi 5 Progress

Firefox 137 Release Brings VA-API Accelerated H.265 On Linux

Linux 6.15 Introduces SPI Offloading, Converts More Drivers To The Faux Bus

PostgreSQL Lands Batch Mode & Other Async I/O Improvements

Intel-Started Cloud Hypervisor Project Adds Experimental RISC-V Support

Linux 6.15 Wires Up SoundWire Bulk Register Access

Many Rust Changes Submitted For Linux 6.15

CachyOS Adds Limine Bootloader, Easier Samba Integration & NTSYNC Wine

Chromium Web Browser Lands Support For Wayland XDG-Session-Management

IO_uring Network Zero-Copy Receive Lands In Linux 6.15

Mesa's Exciting Q1 With More Ray-Tracing, NVK Progress & Performance Optimizations

MIPS Lands Multi-Cluster Support In Linux 6.15 For The EyeQ6 SoC

Shotcut 25.03 Open-Source, Cross-Platform Video Editor Released

Intel's 2025-Q1 Linux Excitement With Battlemage, AVX10 & Other Kernel Improvements

Linux 6.15 PCI Brings New Drivers For Agilex PCIe Controller & AMD Multimedia DMA Bridge

Xiph.Org's Theora libtheora 1.2 Officially Released: 16 Years After v1.0

KDE Plasma 6.3.4 To Fix The "Most Common" Crash, Other Crash Fixes Coming Too

Debian 13 "Trixie" Freeze Process Begins

GNOME Builder IDE Adds Arduino Integration, New Remote Desktop Software For VMs

Linux 6.15 Graphics Drivers: NOVA Core, Apple Touch Bar, Lots For AMD + Intel GPUs

Linux 6.15 Landing Backlight Driver For Various Apple iPhones & iPads

Linux Flips Around Its Behavior For Spectre-BHB Handling On ARM64

Ubuntu Provides More Insight Into Their Decision Not To "-O3" Optimize All Packages

Two Years In The Making, Intel Linux Driver Enables CPS Compression For Alchemist GPUs

Linux 6.15 Better Handles PS5 Controllers, AMD Human Presence Detection Off By Default

Ubuntu 25.04 Beta Officially Released

EXT4 Better Hardened Against Maliciously-Fuzzed File-Systems

Akamai Now Providing The Hosting Infrastructure For Kernel.org

Linux 6.15 To Gain New Option For Those Building The Kernel Without Virtual Terminal

PostgreSQL Database Lands Initial Support For IO_uring: "Can Be Considerably Faster"

Linux 6.15 Brings Support For New Sound Hardware, Continued SoundWire Improvements

RadeonSI Goes Rusticl-Only, Clearing Out Support For Old Clover OpenCL

NVIDIA Vulkan Beta Driver Introduces BFloat16 Support

Linux 6.15 Adds Support For The New AMD Versal NET SoC

Microsoft Announces Open-Source "Hyperlight Wasm" Project

Linux 6.15 Adds AMD Zen 5 SRSO Mitigation For KVM, Preps For Attack Vector Controls

Linux 6.15 Continues Improving Laptop Support

AerynOS 2025.03 Released Following Rebrand From Serpent OS

KDE Developers Begin Working On A New Login Manager

IBM Says Goodbye To Cell Blade Servers With Linux 6.15

Intel Low Power Mode Daemon 0.0.9 Released For Linux Users

Microsoft Brings Two More Features To Hyper-V With Linux 6.15

Minor VFS File Optimizations Merged For Linux 6.15

Linux 6.15 Goes Very Heavy On Intel & AMD x86_64 CPU Changes

XZ 5.8 Debuts As First Major Feature Release Since The Backdoor Disaster

MPV 0.40 Media Player Released With Wayland HDR Support

NVIDIA GeForce RTX 5070 Linux Gaming/Graphics Performance

Fwupd 2.0.7 Released With New Plug-Ins & Additional Hardware Support

Latest Batch Of Rust Compiler Updates For GCC 15.1 Lands Support For... For Loops

Intel Engineer Posts Cache-Aware Load Balancing For Linux - May Be Very Useful For AMD

GCC & LLVM Clang Merge Support For The NVIDIA Olympus Cores With The Vera CPU

AMD INVLPGB Merged For Linux 6.15 To Provide Another Performance Advantage

Flowblade 2.20 Open-Source Video Editor Leveraging SDL2, Other Improvements

GNU Linux-libre 6.14-gnu Deals With New Firmware Blobs From AMDXDNA & Other Drivers

GRUB Bootloader Received 73 Patches To Fix A Variety Of Recent Security Issues

GIMP 3.0.2 Released To Fix Early Bugs From GIMP 3.0

Bcachefs Aims For "Soft Frozen" On-Disk Format With Linux 6.15 Along With New Features

Btrfs Adding Fast/Realtime Zstd Compression & Other Performance Optimizations

New FWCTL Subsystem Submitted For Linux 6.15

AMD Lands LLVM Flang Fortran Runtime Support For Compiling Directly On The GPU

Linux 6.14 Released With Working NTSYNC Driver, AMD Ryzen AI Accelerator Support

Intel's AVX10.2 Patches Merged For GCC 15 To Drop 256-bit Rounding & AVX10.2-256 Options

Faster Intel/AMD Crypto Performance & Initial Intel APX Enablement Slated For Linux 6.15

Wayland Protocols 1.42 Updates Cursor Shape & Tablet Protocols

Libinput 1.28 Released With Three-Finger Drag

Raspberry Pi PoE+ Injector Launches For $25 USD

EROFS Being Extended To Handle Massive Amounts Of Data For AI Model Training

Hyprland 0.48 Adds A "Application Not Responding" Dialog, Better Color Management

LLVM/Clang Compiler Being Adapted For AVX10.2 Now Making 512-bit Support Mandatory

Qualcomm Iris Video Decode Driver & DesignWare HDMI Input Support Ready For Linux 6.15

Rust Additions For GCC 15 Bring Support For if-let Statements, Other Improvements

Sched_Ext Changes Submitted For Linux 6.15

FreeDesktop.org GitLab Transitions To New Server Infrastructure

Linux 6.15 Plans To Drop Support For A Useless CRC-32 Checksum In The Kernel Image

AMD RDNA 3.5 Cleaner Shader Support Prepped For Linux 6.15

KDE KWin Lands FIFO v1 Wayland Support, GNOME 48 Squeezed In XDG Toplevel Drag v1

Code Submitted Ahead Of Linux 6.15 For Enabling Block Sizes Greater Than Page Size

KDE Continues Prepping More Features For Plasma 6.4