Marek Olšák Scores Up To 100% Pixel Throughput Optimization For RADV Driver

([Radeon] 2 June 08:30 PM EDT Scoring At Valve)

Marek Olšák who had been a longtime AMD Linux driver engineer specializing in the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, recently began working for Valve on their Linux graphics driver team. His focus has understandably shifted to working on the RADV Vulkan driver and one of his early optimizations now with the Valve hat on is up to a 100% pixel throughput optimization for the RADV driver, which is already quite well optimized thanks to years of investment from Valve, Red Hat, and others.

Microsoft Announces Open-Source "Intelligent Terminal"

([AI] 2 June 03:18 PM EDT Microsoft Intelligent Terminal)

Microsoft today announced their newest open-source creation... Under the MIT license it's the Intelligent Terminal.

Benchmarking The Different CachyOS Linux Kernel Flavors

([Operating Systems] 2 June 10:40 AM EDT 35 Comments)

CachyOS ships with a good Linux kernel configuration by default balancing the different features as well as performance. But they also ship a variety of other kernel builds for those preferring a more leading-edge kernel or the current LTS series, a hardened kernel configuration, and more. In this article are some fresh benchmarks of the Arch Linux based CachyOS Linux distribution with some of its main kernel flavors.

KDE Plasma 6.8 Still Planning To End X11 Support, 95% Of Plasma 6.6 Users Are On Wayland

([KDE] 2 June 10:24 AM EDT KDE Plasma Wayland)

KDE developers are sticking to their plans for Plasma 6.8 going Wayland-exclusive in dropping X11 support. Meanwhile it turns out 95% of current Plasma 6.6 users are running already on Wayland.

The Linux Kernel Ready To Make TSC A Hard Requirement For x86 CPUs

([Linux Kernel] 2 June 09:25 AM EDT Time Stamp Counter)

Now that the Linux kernel has been removing Intel 486 CPU support and also proceeding to drop other vintage CPUs like the AMD K5 CPU support and AMD Elan, the Linux kernel is ready to make the TSC support unconditional for x86 processors.

Open-Source NVIDIA Vulkan Driver "NVK" Merges Mesh Shader Support

([Nouveau] 2 June 08:30 AM EDT NVK Mesh Shaders)

Mesa's NVK open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver now has mesh shader support as another significant step forward for this driver in being able to handle modern Linux gaming and other workloads.

Mir 2.27 Released With More Wayland Rust Code

([Wayland] 2 June 06:30 AM EDT Mir 2.27)

Canonical today released Mir 2.27 as the latest version of this set of compositor libraries for easily building Wayland-based shells on Linux and fitting into the Ubuntu Linux paradigm.

ASUS ZenVision Laptop Lid Screen Reverse Engineered & Now Able To Work On Linux

([Hardware] 2 June 06:12 AM EDT ASUS ZenVision)

ASUS ZenVision is a feature of some ASUS laptops like the Zenbook 14X OLED Space Edition where there is a 3.5-inch monochrome screen embedded into the top lid of the laptop. From this mini display embedded into the top lid of the laptop it's possible to display animated themes, show the current date/time, battery status, or customized messages and the like. The practicality is rather limited as primarily it's for showing off to people around you besides when your laptop lid is closed, but now with experimental code it's now possible to use ZenVision on Linux.

COSMIC Desktop's Frosted Glass Is Giving Windows Aero Vibes

([Desktop] 2 June 05:38 AM EDT COSMIC Frosted Glass)

Some of the latest feature work for the Rust and Wayland based COSMIC desktop environment is on creating their new "Frosted Glass" appearance. It's getting closer to release and giving off Windows Aero vibes for that design language from the Windows Vista days.

Shotcut 26.6 Beta Brings Many Fixes, OpenFX & VST2 Plugin Support

([Multimedia] 2 June 05:30 AM EDT Shotcut 26.6)

Shotcut 26.6 is now available in beta form as this latest feature update for this popular, open-source and cross platform video editor.

X.Org Server Starts June With Nine New Security Vulnerabilities Discovered Via AI

([X.Org] 1 June 08:34 PM EDT X.Org Server + XWayland)

There are nine new security vulnerabilities impacting the X.Org Server as well as the XWayland component. Yep, more than a decade after X.Org Server security issues began coming to light with a security research acknowledging it's a disaster and "it's worse than it looks", it continues holding true.

AMD Radeon RX 9070 GRE Linux Performance

([Graphics Cards] 1 June 08:00 PM EDT 20 Comments)

Yesterday AMD kicked off Computex 2026 in announcing the Radeon RX 9070 GRE alongside a number of other product announcements. With the Radeon RX 9070 GRE going on sale today, the review embargo has now lifted on this new RDNA 4 consumer graphics card slated to be priced around $549 USD. Here is an initial look at the Linux performance benchmarks of this new AMD graphics card offering.

Intel Xeon Diamond Rapids EDAC Driver Changes Readied For Linux 7.2

([Intel] 1 June 05:27 PM EDT DIamond Rapids EDAC)

Ahead of Intel Diamond Rapids server processors launching in 2027, the Linux kernel continues getting into shape for these next-gen Xeon processors. The latest enablement work taking place for Diamond Rapids is readying the Error Detection And Correction (EDAC) driver support for propagating memory errors/correction information under Linux.

Intel Preparing WiFi 8 "UHR" Support For Their IWLWIFI Linux Driver

([Intel] 1 June 09:35 AM EDT Intel IWLWIFI WiFi 8)

Intel open-source software engineers have been busy beginning to prepare their upstream IWLWIFI wireless driver in the Linux kernel for supporting their next-gen WiFi adapters supporting the WiFi 8 "Ultra High Reliability" standard.

Linux 7.2 Proceeding To Deprecate AF_ALG Due To "Massive Attack Surface", Drops Offloading

([Linux Networking] 1 June 06:48 AM EDT AF_ALG)

The Linux kernel's AF_ALG interface for user-space applications to directly access the Linux kernel's built-in cryptographic engine is proceeding with a quick deprecation cycle due to a "massive attack surface" with increased vulnerabilities coming to light due to AI/LLM-based tooling.