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Intel's Vulkan Linux Driver Finally Exposes VK_EXT_shader_object

([Intel] 5 September 06:21 AM EDT Intel + VK_EXT_shader_object)

As of today in Mesa 25.3-devel Git, the Intel "ANV" open-source Vulkan driver for Linux systems is finally exposing the VK_EXT_shader_object extension.



Linux Kernel Runtime Guard 1.0 Released For Security Vulnerability Exploit Detection

([Linux Kernel] 5 September 06:29 AM EDT Linux Kernel Runtime Guard)

Linux Kernel Runtime Guard 1.0 has been released. LKRG is a project providing runtime integrity checking of the Linux kernel and is able to detect security vulnerability exploits against the running kernel.



NVIDIA's Open-Source Nova Driver Now Explicitly Requires 64-bit Support

([NVIDIA] 5 September 06:04 AM EDT Nova Requires 64-bit)

As part of the Rust DRM drivers now having their own development tree, sent out today was the first pull request from the drm-rust-fixes branch.



GCC 16 Increasing Its Default LTO Partition Count Due To Today's High Core Count CPUs

([GNU] 4 September 02:44 PM EDT Link Time Optimizations)

GCC's --param lto-partitions= compiler flag is used for controlling the number of partitions used during Link Time Optimization (LTO). It had defaulted to 128 for a number of years but given today's rising core counts especially for servers and HEDT/workstation processors, that default partition count is being quadrupled.



Intel Xe Graphics Driver Preps More SR-IOV Code For Linux 6.18

([Intel] 4 September 01:35 PM EDT Intel Xe + Linux 6.18)

In addition to the SR-IOV work for the Intel Xe driver that landed in Linux 6.17 with a focus on Battlemage, additional SR-IOV work is coming for the Linux 6.18 cycle. Plus a variety of other Intel Xe kernel graphics driver changes too.



Linux 6.17 With EXT4 Showing Some Nice Performance Improvements

([Software] 4 September 10:00 AM EDT 40 Comments)

With the Linux 6.17 kernel there are some block allocation scalability improvements for EXT4 on top of other file-system enhancements with this new kernel and other new features. Linux 6.17 performance has been looking good and when drilling down to the EXT4 file-system performance, it's looking extremely good. Here are some benchmarks of EXT4 on Linux 6.17 compared to the 6.15 and 6.16 stable kernels.



HIP-RT Update For Blender 5.0 To Deliver Improved Ray-Tracing On RDNA4 GPUs

([Radeon] 4 September 09:38 AM EDT Blender 5.0 HIP-RT)

AMD engineers have submitted a HIP-RT update for Blender developers ahead of the big Blender 5.0 release to enhance the RDNA4 ray-tracing performance.



NVIDIA Posts Initial Linux Patches For Extended GPU Memory "EGM" Virtualization

([NVIDIA] 4 September 09:10 AM EDT NVIDIA EGM Virtualization)

NVIDIA engineer Ankit Agrawal today posted a request for comments (RFC) patch series working on Linux virtualization support for Extended GPU Memory (EGM).



Ubuntu 25.10 Proceeding With Its Rust Coreutils Transition

([Ubuntu] 4 September 08:11 AM EDT Rust Coreutils)

Following sudo-rs becoming the default sudo implementation in Ubuntu 25.10 as of a few days ago, Canonical is also proceeding with its transition of using the Rust version of Coreutils for this next Ubuntu Linux release.



Miracle-WM 0.7 Brings Mouse/Keyboard Configuration, Enhances Sway IPC Compatibility

([Wayland] 4 September 06:44 AM EDT Miracle-WM 0.7)

Miracle-WM is the Wayland compositor built atop Canonical's Mir project with a focus on tiling and inspired by Sway/i3. Miracle-WM 0.7 is now available for advancing this Mir-powered Wayland experience with additional functionality now in place.



Fedora 44 Change Proposal Aims To Ensure A Nice Wine/Proton + NTSYNC Experience

([Fedora] 4 September 06:34 AM EDT Fedora With NTSYNC)

A change proposal filed for next year's Fedora 44 release wants to aim for a nice experience when running Wine or the Proton variants supporting the Linux kernel's NTSYNC driver for better emulating the Microsoft Windows NT synchronization primitives.



Microsoft Building Out Its "OS Guard" Functionality For Azure Linux

([Microsoft] 4 September 06:21 AM EDT Microsoft OS Guard)

A new feature Microsoft has been working on for its Azure Linux operating system is OS Guard as a container-host platform that enforces immutability, code integrity, mandatory access control, and other features. Microsoft quietly revealed more about OS Guard last month and yesterday's release of Azure Linux 3.0.20250822 builds out more of the OS Guard functionality.



Linux Mint 22.2 Officially Released With Fingwit, UI Tweaks

([Operating Systems] 4 September 06:08 AM EDT Linux Mint 22.2)

Linux Mint 22.2 is officially out today as the newest version of this popular desktop Linux distribution built atop an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS package base.



Intel Releases OpenVINO 2025.3 With More GenAI Enhancements & Arc Pro B-Series Support

([Intel] 4 September 05:55 AM EDT OpenVINO 2025.3)

On the same day as beginning to ship the Intel Arc Pro B50 ~$349 USD workstation graphics card, Intel also shipped OpenVINO 2025.3 as the newest feature release for this open-source AI toolkit.



GNOME 49 Release Candidate Ships With GDM Re-Enabling X11 Support By Default

([GNOME] 3 September 06:19 PM EDT GNOME 49.rc)

The GNOME 49 release candidate "49.rc" was just released as we close in on the stable GNOME 49.0 release in two weeks.



Linux Hardware Enablement Leader Hans de Goede Leaving Red Hat

([Red Hat] 3 September 04:20 PM EDT Hans de Goede)

Well, here is some sad news... After the better part of two decades at Red Hat, Hans de Goede shared today he will be leaving the company next month. Hans de Goede during his time at Red Hat has been responsible for countless hardware improvements especially for Linux laptops, serves as the x86 platform subsystem lead maintainer for the Linux kernel, and has done immense work over the past 17 years for bettering Linux hardware support especially on consumer devices.



openSUSE Leap 16 To Provide 24 Months Of Maintenance Updates / Community Support

([SUSE] 3 September 03:47 PM EDT 24 Months Support)

SUSE's Lubos Kocman announced today on the behalf of the openSUSE team that they will be providing extended maintenance updates and community support with the upcoming Leap 16 release.



Rust Innovation Lab Announced By The Rust Foundation

([Programming] 3 September 12:41 PM EDT Rust Innovation Lab)

The Rust Foundation today announced the creation of the Rust Innovation Lab that will serve as a stable, neutral home to select Rust projects with governance support, legal and administrative support, fiscal sponsorship, and more.



AMD Secure AVIC Primed For Linux 6.18 To Provide Better Security & Performance

([AMD] 3 September 12:00 PM EDT AMD Secure AVIC)

Ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.18 kernel cycle, which will likely end up being this year's Long Term Support (LTS) version, the AMD Secure AVIC driver appears ready for merging. The AMD Secure AVIC patches were queued this week into a TIP branch and this likely to be submitted for the upcoming Linux 6.18 merge window.



Niri 25.08 Wayland Compositor Introduces xwayland-satellite Support

([Wayland] 3 September 10:50 AM EDT Niri 25.08)

Niri 25.08 is out this week as the newest version of this scrollable-tiling Wayland compositor. Notable now is adding xwayland-satellite integration for offering legacy X11 app support.



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