Linux 7.3 Delivers Graphics Driver Improvements From Old GPUs To Next-Gen Hardware
The Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) subsystem updates have been merged for the ongoing Linux 7.3 merge window. There…
Linux 7.3 Makes Preparations Toward Upstreaming FAMFS File-System
The NVDIMM and direct access (DAX) patches have been merged for the Linux 7.3 cycle. Most of the…
Longtime Linux CIFS/SMB3 Maintainer Passes Away
There is a changing of the guard with Linux 7.3 as the maintainer of the Common Internet File…
Apple HFS / HFS+ File-System Support Continues Seeing Fixes With Linux 7.3
In early 2025 it was being discussed to potentially drop the HFS and HFS+ file-system support with the…
Red Hat’s Tuned 2.28 To Improve Out-Of-The-Box WiFi Power Savings On Fedora
Tuned 2.28 released this Saturday as the newest version of Red Hat’s tuning profile delivery mechanism for Linux.…
OpenZFS 2.4.4 Released With Linux 7.2 Support, Dozens Of Fixes
OpenZFS 2.4.4 is out today as the newest stable point release for this ZFS file-system implementation for Linux…
Linux 7.2 Released With Faster I/O, New AMD & Intel Driver Improvements
Linus Torvalds just released Linux 7.2 as stable! After a very busy kernel cycle due to the increased…
GIMP Making Progress On New Project File Format After Nearly 30 Years With XCF
The GIMP project has published their latest development update to highlight the interesting work that’s ongoing toward GIMP…
Linux 7.3 binfmt_misc To Allow BPF Programs To Dynamically Choose Execution Environments
The Linux kernel’s binfmt_misc functionality allows non-native/custom files to ne run directly such as for Windows EXE files…
KDE Plasma 6.8 To Allow Fine-Tuning Mouse/Touchpad Speeds
KDE developers continue to be quite busy this summer baking improvements for the upcoming Plasma 6.8 desktop release.…
FastFlowLM 1.0 Released Now As Part Of The AMD ROCm Umbrella
FastFlowLM is the open-source software for getting vision, audio, embedding, and MoE large language models up and running…
FreeBSD 14.5 Beta 1 Released With Various Backports, Security Fixes
For those still on the FreeBSD 14 N-1 stable series rather than the latest FreeBSD 15 series, FreeBSD…