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Fedora 44 Will Not Pursue The Idea Of Ending 32-bit x86 Software Packages

([Fedora] 30 June 06:12 AM EDT Idea Dropped)

A proposal raised last week for Fedora 44 was to drop i686 support with ending multi-lib and x86 32-bit packages support. But following a fair amount of opposition to the idea, this matter isn't going to be pursued for next spring's Fedora 44 release.


Raspberry Pi Radio Module 2 Launches For $4

([Raspberry Pi] 30 June 06:02 AM EDT Raspberry Pi Radio Module 2)

The newest product in the Raspberry Pi family launching today is the Raspberry Pi Radio Module 2.


Linux 6.16-rc4 Released With AMD Cleaner Shader For More GPUs, Bcachefs Changes

([Linux Kernel] 29 June 05:07 PM EDT Linux 6.16-rc4)

Linus Torvalds just released Linux 6.16-rc4 as we prepare to close out the first half of 2025 and hitting roughly one month until the Linux 6.16 stable release.


Wine-Based Hangover Project Drops QEMU In Favor Of FEX & Box64 For Emulation

([WINE] 29 June 10:33 AM EDT Hangover 10.11)

Building off Friday's release of Wine 10.11 for running Windows games and applications on Linux is now Hangover 10.11 for this Wine-based software used for running Windows games/applications cross-architecture such as on AArch64/ARM64 systems.


AMD Prepares Linux Driver Support For New APUs Still Relying On RDNA1 Graphics

([AMD] 29 June 08:50 AM EDT Extending Cyan Skillfish)

It looks like AMD is preparing to introduce some new APUs/SoCs still relying on RDNA1-based graphics with open-source GPU driver patches posted this week extending the "Cyan Skillfish" support to some new APU devices.


Wayback Is An Experimental X11 Compatibility Layer For X11 Desktops Using Wayland

([Wayland] 29 June 07:07 AM EDT Wayback)

Wayback is a new open-source project working on providing an X11 compatibility layer for running full X11 desktop environments using Wayland components with a rootful XWayland server.


GNOME Shell & Mutter 49 Alpha 1 Released With More Changes

([GNOME] 29 June 06:57 AM EDT GNOME Shell + Mutter)

Released earlier this month were various GNOME 49 Alpha 0 packages including for GNOME Shell and the Mutter compositor while out this weekend are the "Alpha 1" releases.


AMD Strix Halo, Snapdragon X & Linux Graphics Were Most Popular This Quarter

([Phoronix] 29 June 06:29 AM EDT 2025-Q2)

With Q2 quickly drawing to a close, here is a look back at the most popular Linux hardware reviews and other Linux/open-source news for the quarter.


Linux 6.16 Extends Cleaner Shader Support To More AMD CDNA/GFX9 GPUs

([Radeon] 28 June 09:27 AM EDT AMD Cleaner Shader)

The past number of months has seen work by AMD Linux driver engineers in enabling cleaner shader functionality for various generations of GPUs to help ensure user/application isolation. Being merged overnight as part of the AMDGPU "fixes" for Linux 6.16 is cleaner shader support for more AMD GFX9 / CDNA hardware, notably to benefit various Instinct accelerators with this security feature.


RADV Ray-Tracing Lands Pointer Flags Support For RDNA3 & Newer

([Mesa] 28 June 08:04 AM EDT RADV Pointer Flags)

The RADV Vulkan driver's ray-tracing performance has improved a lot over time such as shown within yesterday's RADV vs. AMDVLK performance comparison on Strix Point. Coincidentally, merged today is yet another ray-tracing optimization to benefit RDNA3 (GFX11) and newer AMD graphics processors.


LACT 0.8 GPU Configuration & Monitoring Tool Introduces More Features

([Hardware] 28 June 06:24 AM EDT LACT 0.8)

While a number of Linux desktop users have expressed disappointment over Intel and AMD not providing any GUI for their GPU driver settings and similar functionality like they do under Windows, there are a number of third-party open-source GUI programs for managing graphics driver settings. One of the most capable solutions is LACT for GPU configuration and monitoring. Out today is LACT 0.8 with more features now in place.


KDE Devs Add Wayland Session Management To Qt 6.10, Inertial Scrolling For Qt Quick Apps

([KDE] 28 June 06:01 AM EDT This Week in Plasma)

KDE developers this week have been busy with a mix of polishing the recent Plasma 6.4 release as well as taking on more feature development work for Plasma 6.5 coming later in the year.


"Tyr" Announced As New Rust-Written Linux Kernel Graphics Driver

([Hardware] 27 June 08:32 PM EDT Tyr)

An unexpected announcement this Friday evening is an introduction to Tyr, a new Linux kernel DRM graphics driver written in the Rust programming language. As is sadly becoming more common among Linux GPU kernel drivers is the increasing obscure driver names. Tyr?!?


Wine 10.11 Makes More Preparations For NTSYNC Support

([WINE] 27 June 06:57 PM EDT Wine 10.11)

Wine 10.11 is out for testing today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this software for running Microsoft Windows games and applications on Linux and other platforms.


RADV vs. AMDVLK Driver Performance For Strix Halo Radeon 8060S Graphics

([Display Drivers] 27 June 11:10 AM EDT 10 Comments)

The latest in our ongoing testing of AMD Strix Halo performance using the HP ZBook Ultra G1a is analyzing the Vulkan API performance between Mesa's RADV driver and the AMDVLK official open-source AMD Vulkan driver for Linux systems. More than one hundred benchmarks were run looking at the performance from Steam Play games to Vulkan compute workloads.


Ubuntu Concept 25.04 ISOs Published For Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite Laptops

([Ubuntu] 27 June 09:54 AM EDT Ubuntu Concept 25.04)

Similar to the Ubuntu 24.10 concept ISOs for Qualcomm Snapdragon X Elite laptops, Canonical has begun publishing new "concept" images of Ubuntu 25.04 ISOs optimized for use on the growing number of Qualcomm Snpadragon X Elite laptops. This week marks the release of the new ISOs for enhancing Ubuntu Linux on various ARM laptops.


Canonical Makes Multipass VM Manager Fully Open-Source

([Ubuntu] 27 June 09:05 AM EDT Multipass Open-Source)

Canonical's Multipass lightweight VM manager for not only Linux systems but also Windows and macOS is now considered fully open-source. Multipass started out as a means of running an Ubuntu environment with ease from a single command on major operating systems. With today's Multipass 1.16 release candidate, it's now fully open-source.


NVIDIA Blackwell Support Coming Together For NVK Vulkan In Mesa

([Nouveau] 27 June 06:43 AM EDT NVIDIA RTX 50)

Merged for the current Linux 6.16 cycle was initial NVIDIA Blackwell GPU support with the Nouveau open-source driver. NVIDIA Blackwell GPU support was tacked onto the existing Nouveau kernel driver rather than having to wait for the new "NOVA" driver and like prior generations continuing to leverage the GSP firmware. For going along with that Nouveau support, the Mesa NVK Vulkan driver support for Blackwell continues being put together too.


Bcachefs Changes End Up Being Merged Into Linux 6.16, For 6.17: "We'll Be Parting Ways"

([Linux Storage] 27 June 06:27 AM EDT But Bcachefs will be dropped?)

Last week was a Bcachefs pull request consisting of fixes and a new "journal_rewind" feature to aide as a disaster recovery tool for the file-system. But with that code being submitted as part of the ongoing Linux 6.16 release candidates, it drew criticism from Linus Torvalds and other kernel developers. However, one week later and that discussion having subsided a few days ago, Linus Torvalds ended up merging all of the code. But there is a concerning warning for the future of Bcachefs in the mainline Linux kernel.


AMD Platinum Sponsor Of Debian's DebConf25 - Promoting ROCm

([Debian] 27 June 06:05 AM EDT AMD + Debian)

The Debian project announced on Thursday that AMD has got on-board for being a platinum sponsor of their upcoming DebConf25 developer conference happening in July in Brest, France.


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