Canonical Releases Workshop As New Way Of Launching Development Environments

([Ubuntu] 27 May 05:56 AM EDT Canonical Workshop)

Ubuntu maker Canonical announced today the release of Workshop as their new Snap-based application for launching development environments with ease.

ReactOS Now Running On ARM64 In Experimental Form

([Operating Systems] 26 May 08:54 PM EDT ReactOS ARM64)

ReactOS as the "open-source Windows" project working to implement binary compatibility for computer programs and drivers for Microsoft Windows now has experimental support for running on 64-bit ARM.

Google's ANGLE Merges Wayland Support, Unblocking Chromium Embedded Framework On Wayland

([Wayland] 26 May 04:28 PM EDT ANGLE + Wayland)

It looks like Google's Chromium Embedded Framework "CEF" could finally be enjoying nice native Wayland support soon!

AlmaLinux 10.2 Released For Latest Community-Driven RHEL 10.2 Experience

([Operating Systems] 26 May 09:58 AM EDT AlmaLinux 10.2)

The AlmaLinux project announced the releases today of both AlmaLinux OS 9.8 and AlmaLinux OS 10.2.

NVIDIA Vera CPU Benchmarks: Olympus Cores Delivering The Best Performance Ever Seen On ARM

([Processors] 26 May 10:00 AM EDT 65 Comments)

NVIDIA's Vera data center CPU isn't ramping up until later this year but I recently had the opportunity to try out this new ARM-based CPU designed for agentic AI workloads. NVIDIA's Vera CPU with its in-house-designed Olympus CPU cores ends up packing a heavy-hitting punch with competitiveness to Intel/AMD x86_64 CPUs that I have never seen out of any other ARM or non-x86_64 processors. Continue on with these early benchmarks of the NVIDIA Vera CPU on Linux.

Pavona Aims To Provide A Certification-Ready, Open-Source Silicon Ecosystem

([Hardware] 26 May 09:51 AM EDT Pavona)

GlobalPlatform announced today the launch of Pavona as an open-source silicon ecosystem backed by founding members such as Meta, Qualcomm, Tenstorrent, Winbond, and the University of Oxford, among others.

NVIDIA 610.43.02 Linux Driver Released With Vulkan Improvements, DRM Color Pipeline API

([NVIDIA] 26 May 09:39 AM EDT NVIDIA R610)

NVIDIA is kicking off the new week with their first Linux driver beta in the R610 driver series that is succeeding the current R595 release branch.

Intel Working On pmtctl Tool For Linux In Dealing With Platform Telemetry Data

([Intel] 26 May 05:55 AM EDT pmtctl)

A set if 17 patches were posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list for introducing a new tool in the kernel source tree, pmtctl. This new pmtctl tool is for interfacing with Intel Platform Monitoring Technology.

Btrfs Preps Huge Folios Support Ahead Of Linux 7.2

([Linux Storage] 26 May 05:43 AM EDT Btrfs + Huge Folios)

The past few Linux kernel cycles there has been experimental support for large folios with Btrfs while for Linux 7.2 it looks like this modern file-system will be taking things further with huge folios.

ML-KEM + X-Wing Patches Posted For Linux To Help With Post-Quantum Security

([Linux Security] 26 May 03:00 AM EDT ML-KEM + X-Wing)

Linux cryptography expert Eric Biggers of Google posted a set of patches on Monday for providing proof-of-concept support for ML-KEM and X-Wing for post-quantum cryptography.

Meta's CacheLib Sees New Release After Two Year Hiatus For Helping With High DRAM Prices

([Free Software] 26 May 12:00 AM EDT CacheLib 2026.05.25)

Back in 2021 Facebook open-sourced CacheLib as a new caching engine. Back in 2021 it was done to help scale services with non-volatile memory caching to offset increasing DRAM costs at the time. Now in 2026, DRAM memory prices are astronomical compared to 2021 pricing given the AI surge. And, surprisingly, Meta is out with a new CacheLib release after being absent the past two years.

Labwc 0.20 Wayland Compositor Released With Numerous New Features

([Wayland] 25 May 08:22 PM EDT Labwc 0.20)

In addition to the release today of Sway 1.12 for that i3-inspired Wayland compositor, Labwc 0.20 is also out today as another wlroots-based Wayland compositor.

Sway 1.12 Released With HDR Support On Vulkan Renderer, New Protocols

([Wayland] 25 May 12:20 PM EDT Sway 1.12)

Sway 1.12 is out today as the newest feature release of this i3-inspired Wayland compositor powered by the wlroots library.

RADV Driver Lands Support For VK_KHR_shader_fma

([Radeon] 25 May 10:12 AM EDT VK_KHR_shader_fma)

Merged today for what will become Mesa 26.2 next quarter is the Radeon Vulkan driver "RADV" now supporting the VK_KHR_shader_fma extension.

Intel Introducing USB4STREAM Protocol For Linux - Opening Up Some Nifty Uses For USB4

([Intel] 25 May 06:46 AM EDT USB4STREAM)

An exciting Intel innovation expected to be added for the upcoming Linux 7.2 kernel is introducing the new USB4STREAM protocol for USB4/Thunderbolt as a "super simple" way to "basically just transfer raw packets from one host to another". This can be useful for quickly backing up a system from one host to another, sharing of web cameras or other peripherals across systems, or other environments where not having networking or wanting to avoid the traditional Linux networking stack.

Linux To Drop ARCnet Support For Old ISA & PCMCIA Hardware

([Linux Networking] 25 May 06:20 AM EDT ARCnet For ISA/PCMCIA)

With Linux 7.1 ISDN, ham radio, and other old network code was removed in lightening the kernel source tree by around 138 thousand lines of code. Some additional Linux networking code cleaning is expected for Linux 7.2 with the ISA and PCMCIA hardware around ARCnet set to be removed.

Redis 8.8 Released With New Array Data Structure, More Performance Optimizations

([Programming] 25 May 06:05 AM EDT Redis 8.8)

Redis 8.8 reached GA today for the Redis open-source project providing a high performance, in-memory data store.

California's Age Verification Law May End Up Exempting Most Linux Distributions

([Free Software] 25 May 05:58 AM EDT AB 1856)

While not as good as repealing AB 1043 outright for requiring operating system providers to ask for a user's age or birth date at device setup, open-source Linux distributions and other open-source OSes may end up seeing some reprieve before this law goes into effect at the start of 2027.

Linux 7.1-rc5 Released With Fixes Ramping Up From AI Coding Agents

([Linux Kernel] 24 May 04:51 PM EDT Linux 7.1)

In the road to releasing Linux 7.1 in June, out today is Linux 7.1-rc5 that continues coming on heavy with fixes.

GitHub Copilot & Claude Code Helped With Graphics, WiFi Linux Driver Issues This Week

([AI] 24 May 12:39 PM EDT Linux Kernel AI)

For those curious about the growing use of AI and coding agents within the Linux kernel, this week there was another large batch of new patches fixed that were generated or co-authored by agents like Claude Code and GitHub Copilot.