Linux 6.16 Merges A Fix For The Macintosh II
Hobbyists continue to tinker around with the Motorola 68000 “m68k” support within the Linux kernel and even landing a fix now in 2025 for the vintage Macintosh II… ⌘ Read more

Arch Linux Installer Adds Option To Configure Btrfs Snapshots Post-Install
Archinstall 3.0.7 is out today as the newest feature update to this text-based Arch Linux installer that makes it quick and easy to deploy a new Arch Linux installation… ⌘ Read more

EXT4 For Linux 6.16 Brings A Change For “Really Stupendous Performance”
Ted Ts’o sent out the EXT4 file-system changes today for the Linux 6.16 kernel. While EXT4 may not see as much code churn these days given its mature state compared to say Btrfs and Bcachefs, with Linux 6.16 are some tantalizing performance improvements… ⌘ Read more

Xfce’s xfwm4 Merges Wayland Compositor Code Based On wlroots
Merged today for Xfce’s Xfwm4 window manager component is a built-in Wayland compositor using wlroots… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.16 Upstreams Support For Hardware-Wrapped Encryption Keys
Google engineer Eric Biggers took time away from all his impressive crypto performance optimizations to the Linux kernel for modern Intel and AMD CPUs to spend time getting support for hardware-wrapped inline encryption keys into the mainline kernel. Google’s Android kernel has been carrying this functionality for several years to help enhance security and will now be found in the mainline kernel too for capable platforms… ⌘ Read more

Intel APX Ready With Linux 6.16, Outdated Intel CPU Microcode Reporting Merged
Merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel are all of the x86 core enhancements that provide a variety of benefits to Intel as well as AMD processors… ⌘ Read more

AlmaLinux 10.0 Stable Released - Unlike RHEL 10, It Continues Supporting x86-64-v2 CPUs
Building off the recent release of Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0, AlmaLinux 10.0 stable is now available as this RHEL-derived popular community Linux OS alternative… ⌘ Read more

Wayland ext-background-effect-v1 Merged For Background Blur Feature
After being under discussion since January of 2024, the ext-background-effect-v1 staging protocol proposal by KDE developer Xaver Hugl has finally been merged to the Wayland-Protocols repository. This new Wayland protocol is intended for handling effects like background blur on terminals… ⌘ Read more

ROCm GPU Compute Performance With AMD Ryzen AI MAX+ “Strix Halo”
This month I have been running many Linux benchmarks of the HP ZBook Ultra G1a with the very exciting Ryzen AI MAX+ PRO 395 Strix Halo SoC featuring the powerful Radeon 8060S graphics. While there were the very promising OpenGL and Vulkan benchmarks shown so far from AMD Strix Halo on Linux – including the very compelling performance compared to Microsoft Windows 11 – many are interested in the ROCm compute aspects for Strix Halo. Here are … ⌘ Read more

XFS Atomic Writes Support Merged For Linux 6.16
Building off the atomic write preparations that landed in prior Linux kernel versions, merged for the Linux 6.16 cycle is atomic write support for the XFS file-system… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.16 Adds “X86_NATIVE_CPU” Option To Optimize Your Kernel Build For Your CPU
The X86_NATIVE_CPU Kconfig build time option has been merged for the Linux 6.16 merge window as an easy means of enforcing “-march=native” compiler behavior on AMD and Intel processors to optimize your kernel build for the local CPU architecture/family of your system… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.16 Lands “rt_group_sched” Option, Faster Core Offlining & Scheduler Improvements
The many scheduler updates have been merged for the Linux 6.16 kernel which include a wide assortment of different fixes and new improvements… ⌘ Read more

Qt Bridges To Take The UI Toolkit To New Programming Languages: Rust, C#, Java & Swift
The open-source Qt toolkit is deeply rooted in C++ code but over the past decade also has enjoyed Python language bindings. Now thanks to new work by the Qt Group on what they are calling Qt Bridging Technology, the toolkit will be enjoying more robust support across different programming languages… ⌘ Read more

Intel Auto Count Reload & Clearwater Forest PMU Support Merged For Linux 6.16
The Linux kernel Performance Events changes were merged for the newly-opened Linux 6.16 cycle. Most notable are some new additions on the Intel side while AMD also saw a few changes too… ⌘ Read more

FUTEX2 Improvements Merged For Linux 6.16
On this first day of the Linux 6.16 merge window, Linus Torvalds merged the locking code changes for the kernel that includes some additions to the FUTEX2 interface… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.16 Adds Ability For Power Code To Freeze The File-System For Suspend & Hibernate
Among the many VFS pull requests merged today by Linus Torvalds for the now-open Linux 6.16 merge window is support by the power subsystem for being able to initiate file-system freeze/thaw events as part of the system suspend and resume cycle… ⌘ Read more

New Linux Patches Properly Handle The Audio Jack On Sony’s PS5 DualSense Controller
While there has been the Sony PlayStation 5 DualSense controller support for Linux going back several years and has been improved upon with more recent versions of the Linux kernel, there’s been some shortcomings around the audio jack handling with the DualSense controller. A new patch series out today aims to enhance that capability… ⌘ Read more

GNU Linux-libre 6.15-gnu Neuters The New NOVA NVIDIA Driver
Following last night’s release of the Linux 6.15 stable kernel, the FSF Latin America team has released GNU Linux-libre 6.15-gnu for their downstream kernel that strips out the ability to load non-free firmware/microcode and other elements of the Linux kernel deemed for not aligning with their software freedoms… ⌘ Read more

Rust Makes Progress On Async Rust Experience, Stabilizing Tooling For Rust In The Kernel
The Rust project this morning published a status update on some of their top project goals, including for enhancing the async Rust experience to make it closer to the sync programming experience as well as stabilizing the tooling needed for Rust programming use within the Linux kernel… ⌘ Read more

New AMD SPI Driver Going Upstream In Linux 6.16
Among the early pull requests sent out today with the Linux 6.16 merge window now open are all of the Serial Peripheral Interface (SPI) subsystem updates… ⌘ Read more

Firefox 139.0 Now Available With Faster HTTP/3 Upload Performance
Mozilla Firefox 139.0 release binaries have been pushed out to mirrors today ahead of the formal announcement tomorrow. With the Firefox 139 browser update comes a few new features worth mentioning… ⌘ Read more

Bcachefs: Performance Improvements, Recovery Work & Nicer Error Messages For Linux 6.16
Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet has already sent out the plethora of feature updates destined for the now-open Linux 6.16 kernel cycle. There has been a lot of work going on for Bcachefs that is ready for merging in Linux 6.16 with several performance improvements, continued self-healing / recovery work, improved error messages, and more for this copy-on-write file-system… ⌘ Read more

POWER CPUs Ready With Dynamic Preemption For Linux 6.16
Merged for Linux 5.12 back in early 2021 was a new dynamic preemption mode. Finally now for H2’2025, the IBM POWER CPU ISA kernel code is supporing dynamic preemption… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.15 Released With Continued Rust Integration, Bcachefs Stabilizing
As anticipated the Linux 6.15 kernel is out today in stable form. Linux 6.15 brings a lot of new hardware support, security improvements, various other kernel innovations, and more… ⌘ Read more

ConfigFS Prepares Rust Support For Linux 6.16
ConfigFS is seeing a new maintainer step up to manage this RAM-based file-system. With Andreas Hindborg taking over maintainership of ConfigFS he’s also landing patches authored by him for adding Rust programming language support to this file-system… ⌘ Read more

Btrfs To See More Performance Improvements With Linux 6.16
Ahead of the Linux 6.16 merge window opening, several early pull requests were already sent out this week in advance of Linux 6.15 expected for release later today. Among those early feature pulls was Btrfs maintainer David Sterba sending out updates to this advanced copy-on-write file-system… ⌘ Read more

Dell Latitude 7455 Is The Newest Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Laptop Seeing Linux Patches
The Dell Latitude 7455 (X1E-80-100) is the latest laptop powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite SoC seeing patches for enabling Linux support… ⌘ Read more

Linux 6.16 Features Include A Lot From Intel, NVIDIA Blackwell, AMDGPU User Mode Queues
With Linux 6.15 there are many exciting new features for this kernel version expected to debut as stable later today. Following the Linux 6.15 stable release, the Linux 6.16 merge window will then open. Here is an early look at a portion of the changes anticipated to be submitted and more than likely merged for this next kernel version… ⌘ Read more

More Gaming Controllers From Turtle Beach & PowerA Supported By Linux 6.15
Ahead of the Linux 6.15 kernel stable release expected later today, more input driver updates have been merged for this new kernel version that include introducing compatibility with some newer gaming controllers… ⌘ Read more

Rust Coreutils 0.1 Released With Big Performance Gains - Can Match Or Exceed GNU Speed
With Ubuntu 25.10 planning to ship the Rust-based Coreutils “uutils” by default, it’s a big year ahead for this alternative to GNU Coreutils. In furthering along the project’s goals, today marks the Rust Coreutils v0.1 release… ⌘ Read more

GNOME Web Making It Easier To Toggle WebKit Features
The GNOME Web “Epiphany” web browser is making it easier to toggle WebKit web engine features at run-time… ⌘ Read more

Mike Blumenkrantz Axes Old Mesa Code: Goodbye Gallium Nine
While there was the big 62k lines of code patch from Microsoft merged yesterday to Mesa, separately there was also some code cleaning to remove some previously-deprecated code from the codebase… ⌘ Read more

Cloud Hypervisor 46 Deprecates SGX Support, Google To Take Over TDX Maintenance
While the open-source, Rust-based Cloud Hypervisor project was started by Intel as a modern VMM for cloud workloads and focused on security, some Intel CPU features are now bit-rotting. In turn the new Cloud Hypervisor 46 release has deprecated support for Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX) while even their modern Trust Domain Extensions (TDX) feature is in jeopardy but now with Google engineers set to takeover that code… ⌘ Read more

KDE Plasma 6.4 Adds Time-Of-Day Wallpapers, Disabling Adaptive-Sync By Default
KDE developers have been busy addressing bugs within the Plasma 6.4 desktop ahead of its stable release in June. But there has been some last minute feature work to arrive, including support for time-of-day wallpapers with Plasma 6.4… ⌘ Read more

More Intel Panther Lake Graphics PCI IDs Added To Linux 6.15
Ahead of the Linux 6.15 kernel release expected on Sunday, a final round of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics driver fixes were merged today to the kernel. Notable with these updates on the Intel side is squeezing in some additional PCI device IDs for upcoming Panther Lake integrated graphics… ⌘ Read more