ARM Give a man a fire and he's warm for a day, but set fire to him and he's warm for the rest of his life (Terry Pratchett, Jingo)

AerynOS Establishes Policy Against LLM Contributions, 2026.01 ISO Refresh

([Operating Systems] 30 January 08:13 AM EST AerynOS)

In kicking off 2026, AerynOS developers have continued to make progress on their build tooling and infrastructure for this Linux distribution formerly known as Serpent OS. They have also been working on a new website design and other updated branding to start the new year.



Open-Source Nova Driver In Linux 7.0 Continues Preparing For NVIDIA Turing GPU Support

([Linux Kernel] 30 January 06:15 AM EST Nova Driver + Turing Prep)

This week the Rust DRM changes intended for the Linux 7.0 merge window were sent out by Danilo Krummrich. The Apple Silicon Asahi Linux "AGX" DRM kernel driver still isn't positioned for upstreaming to the mainline kernel so that leaves most of the Rust DRM upstream work currently around the NVIDIA Nova driver as well as the Arm Mali Tyr drivers.



Intel Xe Linux Driver Updated To Disable GuC Power DCC For Panther Lake

([Intel] 30 January 05:53 AM EST Duty Cycle Control)

Queued up in DRM-Next for the Intel open-source graphics driver ahead of the Linux 7.0 kernel cycle is expanding GPU temperature sensor reporting, multi-device SVM prep, multi-queue support for Crescent Island, Nova Lake display support, and other feature work. With the Linux 6.19 stable release fast approaching, DRM-Next is now focusing in on reading early fixes with concluding feature activity for this next merge window.



Intel Releases LLM-Scaler-vLLM 1.3 With New LLM Model Support

([Intel] 30 January 05:34 AM EST LLM-Scaler-vLLM PV 1.3)

Intel today released the LLM-Scaler-vLLM 1.3 update with expanding the array of large language models that can run on Intel Arc Battlemage graphics cards with this Docker-based stack for deploying vLLM.



Microsoft Working On Improved vCPU Scheduler Support For Hyper-V Linux VMs

([Microsoft] 29 January 05:47 PM EST Integrated Scheduler)

Microsoft posted a patch series for introducing Hyper-V integrated scheduler support into the Linux kernel for enhancing vCPU scheduling behavior for virtual machines running within Microsoft's virtualized environment.



DDR5-4800 vs. DDR5-6000 Performance With The AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D In 300+ Benchmarks

([Memory] 29 January 12:50 PM EST 34 Comments)

With the incredible market demand around DDR5 memory and significantly elevated pricing on the more premium DDR5 memory modules, as part of the AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D launch there's been some communication that thanks to 2nd Gen AMD 3D V-Cache, using lower memory speeds like DDR5-4800 can be suitable without much of an impact to the gaming performance. But what about for Linux gaming? And other workloads with the Ryzen 7 9850X3D? Complementing yesterday's Linux review of the Ryzen 7 9850X3D are benchmarks of DDR5-4800 vs. DDR5-6000 performance with Ubuntu Linux and this new 3D V-Cache 8-core / 16-thread desktop processor.



Libcamera 0.7 Released - GPU Acceleration Support For SoftISP Can Deliver 15x Performance

([Multimedia] 29 January 11:51 AM EST libcamera 0.7)

Libcamera 0.7 was published today for this modern software library for image signal processors (ISPs) and embedded cameras under Linux. The standout change with libcamera 0.7 is initial plumbing for GPU acceleration in the software ISP "SoftISP" for delivering better performance than just CPU-based.



IO_uring Zero-Copy Large Receive Buffer Support To Provide A Nice Performance Win

([Linux Networking] 29 January 11:21 AM EST Large Rx Buffer)

Slated for introduction in the next kernel cycle (Linux 6.20~7.0) is introducing large receive buffer support for IO_uring's zero-copy receive code path. This large receive buffer support can be very beneficial for those with higher-end networking hardware capable of handling the larger buffers for some significant performance and efficiency wins.



Libgcrypt 1.12 Released With VAES/AVX-512 Accelerated AES: 2x Performance On AMD Zen 5

([GNU] 29 January 09:39 AM EST libgcrypt 1.12)

Werner Koch released libgcrypt 1.12 as the newest feature release to this library providing the cryptographic building blocks used by GnuPG and other software like email clients, file encryption utilities, and other software.



NVIDIA GeForce NOW Is Now Available Natively On Linux In Flatpak Form

([Linux Gaming] 29 January 09:00 AM EST 66 Comments)

Following NVIDIA's announcement back at CES of their GeForce NOW game streaming service coming to Linux as a native desktop application, today's the day. The GeForce NOW Linux-native build is being published and the review embargo has lifted.



Valve Developer Improves Aging AMD APUs On Linux With VRR, DP/HDMI Audio, HDR & Atomic

([Radeon] 29 January 06:36 AM EST GCN 1.1 AMD APU Improvements)

Timur Kristóf of Valve's Linux graphics team last year addressed remaining issues in the open-source AMDGPU kernel graphics driver so old AMD GCN 1.0 and GCN 1.1 GPUs could transition to using AMDGPU by default rather than the former "Radeon" kernel driver that is largely in maintenance mode for pre-GCN/RDNA GPUs. One caveat though was the GCN 1.1 APU support still having some limitations leading to Kaveri and friends not being able to use the modern AMDGPU DC "Display Core" code. But new patches from Timur take care of those limitations.



Intel Thermal Daemon 2.5.11 Released With Wildcat Lake Support

([Intel] 29 January 06:19 AM EST Intel Thermal Daemon 2.5.11)

With Intel Panther Lake now shipping, open-source Intel engineers working on the client side are turning to tidying up support for their next target: Wildcat Lake. That more cost effective alternative to Panther Lake now has Intel Thermal Daemon support in getting ready for Linux desktops/laptops.



NVIDIA VA-API Driver 0.0.15 Released With A Few Fixes

([NVIDIA] 29 January 05:57 AM EST NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.15)

The NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver 0.0.15 was released overnight as this VA-API driver implementation built atop NVIDIA's NVDEC interface used by their proprietary user-space driver stack. The purpose of NVIDIA-VAAPI-Driver as this community open-source project continues to be around enabling video acceleration for NVIDIA GPUs with the Firefox web browser on Linux that supports the VA-API interface but not NVIDIA's NVDEC.



GNU gettext Reaches Version 1.0 After 30+ Years In Development - Adds LLM Features

([GNU] 28 January 08:31 PM EST GNU gettext)

Sun Microsystems began developing gettext in the early 1990s and the GNU Project began GNU gettext development in 1995 for this widely-used internationalization and localization system commonly for multi-lingual integration. While GNU gettext is commonly used by countless open-source projects and adapted for many different programming languages, only an hour ago was GNU gettext 1.0 finally released.



Wasmer 7.0 Released For Advancing WebAssembly On The Desktop & Anywhere

([Programming] 28 January 04:13 PM EST Wasmer 7.0)

Wasmer 7.0 is out today for this WebAssembly "WASM" run-time for enabling lightweight containers that can run "anywhere" from the desktop to cloud and the edge. The security-minded and extensible WASM runtime provided by Wasmer has already proven to be quite robust while with Wasmer 7.0 has become even more featureful.



GNOME 50 Finally Lands Improved Discrete GPU Detection

([GNOME] 28 January 03:45 PM EST Discrete GPU Detection)

The upcoming release of GNOME 50 to be found in the likes of Ubuntu 26.04 LTS and Fedora Workstation 44 will feature improved discrete GPU detection within the GNOME Shell. This effort has been two years coming and finally merged this week.



Mesa 26.0-rc2 Released With Numerous AMD, NVIDIA & Intel Driver Fixes

([Mesa] 28 January 01:03 PM EST Mesa 26.0-rc2)

Following last week's code branching / feature freeze and first release candidate of Mesa 26.0, Mesa 26.0-rc2 is now available with an initial batch of bug fixes for this quarter's feature update to these open-source OpenGL and Vulkan drivers.



FreeType Speeds-Up ClearType-Like LCD Filter Rendering By 40%

([Free Software] 28 January 11:23 AM EST FreeType Optimization)

The widely-used FreeType library used for rendering text onto bitmaps has landed a significant optimization for its LCD filtering code path for Microsoft ClearType-like rendering. Thanks to the improvement, the rendering can be around 40% faster.



AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D Linux Performance

([Processors] 28 January 09:00 AM EST 46 Comments)

Ahead of tomorrow's official availability of the AMD Ryzen 7 9850X3D at $499 USD, today the review embargo lifted. This faster variant to the existing Ryzen 7 9800X3D has been undergoing lots of Linux benchmarking the past two weeks for seeing the performance capabilities of this fastest 8-core 3D V-Cache processor.



Mesa NVK Driver Temporarily Disabling Support For Larger Pages Due To Bug

([Nouveau] 28 January 06:16 AM EST Mesa NVK + Large Page Issues)

Upstreamed to the Nouveau open-source kernel driver in Linux 6.19 was support for larger pages and with that compression support available with the larger page sizes. Subsequently the Mesa NVK open-source Vulkan driver began making use of the larger pages and compressed image support dependent upon the larger page sizes as it should help with performance. But for now it's being temporarily disabled due to a discovered issue.



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