A recently posted patch series for the MSI WMI platform driver is aiming this open-source driver to reach parity with MSI's official Windows application/driver for the MSI Claw gaming handheld systems.

Longtime AMDGPU driver engineer Alex Deucher has posted an interesting set of patches on Wednesday for enhancing the GPU reset experience under Linux with RDNA graphics cards.

A patch series is baking for likely upstreaming in the Linux v6.17 kernel cycle later in the year to optimize AMD CPU cache flushing when making use of Secure Encrypted Virtualization (SEV) with KVM.

With Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10 providing a RISC-V developer preview, CentOS is now in turn also providing initial RISC-V CPU ISA support.

Well, this is a pleasant surprise... Less than 24 hours after the AMD Computex 2025 keynote where better/more-timely ROCm support for client GPUs was brought up, AMD ROCm 6.4.1 is now officially released. With ROCm 6.4.1 there is formal support for RDNA4 GPUs, including the Radeon RX 9000 series consumer graphics cards.

The libinput input handling library that's used by both X11 and Wayland based environments on the Linux desktop is preparing to introduce a Lua-based plug-in system. Via Lua scripts it will be possible to modify evdev input events / input device behavior to deal with quirky/broken input devices and better workaround other problems that aren't currently easily addressable.

With the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series having just been announced at Computex, it's a good time to revisit the Ryzen Threadripper 7000 series performance ahead of those Zen 5 HEDT CPUs launching in July. In this article is a look at how the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7970X 32-core and 7980X 64-core HEDT processors have evolved on the same system with the software updates released since their late 2023 debut. Overall the AMD Ryzen Threadripper 7970X and 7980X Linux performance is up by about 8% overall since launch day less than two years ago with the 64-core processor.

Fwupd 2.0.10 is out today as the newest feature update to this open-source firmware updating solution built around the Linux Vendor Firmware Service (LVFS).

At the AMD Computex keynote last night in addition to announcing the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series, Radeon RX 9060 XT, and Ryzen AI PRO R9700, they also brief talked about the ROCm compute stack and their plans for the second half of 2025.

Last year NVIDIA began publicly outlining known Wayland limitations for their driver and future support plans. This week NVIDIA put out updated information concerning known gaps in Wayland support as well as their ongoing future driver plans for enhancing the feature compatibility under this X11 successor.

The FreeBSD project today published their status report outlining their development happenings during Q1'2025. There's been a lot going on in the FreeBSD world, especially for improving laptop support and other modern hardware coverage for this BSD operating system.

Released yesterday was the newest monthly feature update to the Intel Compute Runtime as their open-source GPU compute stack for OpenCL and oneAPI Level Zero support on Intel integrated and discrete graphics processors.

Merged yesterday to the GNOME Display Manager "GDM" codebase is disabling of the X11/X.Org session by default as the first step toward deprecating GNOME's X11 session support.

Sent out last week was one final batch of drm-misc-next updates ahead of the upcoming Linux 6.16 kernel cycle. Besides a couple fixes, most notable was new async flipping code for the Intel DRM driver with the IN_FORMATS_ASYNC DRM property.

Ongoing Wayland release manager Simon Ser has proposed doing away with alpha and beta releases moving forward as a sign of Wayland's maturity and to ease the release management process.

Following the Mesa 25.1 stable release from earlier this month, Mesa 25.1.1 is now available as the first point release bringing an assortment of different OpenGL and Vulkan driver fixes.

Along with announcing the Radeon AI PRO R9700 and Radeon RX 9060 XT specifications, on the CPU side AMD used their Computex 2025 keynote for introducing the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series that will be launching in July.

From the AMD keynote at Computex today the Raeon AI PRO R9700 Graphics were announced in delivering RDNA4 graphics for professionals.

In addition to announcing the Radeon AI PRO R9700 and Threadripper 9000 series processors, AMD also introduced the Radeon RX 9060 XT graphics card at Computex 2025.

AMD this evening announced ROCm-DS as a new toolkit for their ROCm compute stack to accelerate data processing workloads on Instinct accelerators.