Framework Computer as the company behind the modular Framework laptops and incredible Ryzen AI Max "Strix Halo" Framework Desktop has stepped up their support for the KDE community.

KDE is now the latest open-source organization being sponsored by this computer manufacturer that has become quite popular with open-source and Linux enthusiasts for their upgrade-friendly hardware.

Becoming a KDE Patron requires companies with 50 employees or less to contribute at least 5,000 EUR per year or 10,000 EUR per year for

Following the Intel Xe kernel graphics driver pull request landing transparent hugepages for device pages as an SVM win, another round of Intel Xe driver updates were sent out this week ahead of next month's Linux 7.1 merge window. This latest pull request lands a new user-space API for helping the Intel Xe driver better cope with situations of video memory pressure / out-of-memory behavior for vRAM.

The headline change with this latest Intel Xe kernel driver pull request is support for purgeable buffer objects (BOs

With sched_ext there is support for BPF-based CPU scheduling policies for the Linux kernel while now a new initiative is working on BPF-based I/O schedulers.

Kaitao Cheng with Kylin OS has sent out a set of request for comments (RFC) / experimental patches for allowing BPF-based I/O schedulers to be created for Linux for dealing with I/O scheduling behavior.

The intent with this BPF-based I/O scheduling work is for allowing I/O scheduling to be moved into

In addition to this week's ROCm 7.2.1 stable point release , ROCm 7.12 was also released as the newest tech preview in working toward what will presumably be called ROCm 8.0.

As a reminder, late last year ROCm 7.9+ began as a new technology preview series built atop TheRock build system. Versions 7.9 and later of 7.xx for ROCm are tech preview releases working toward the next major ROCm milestone later this year or next. These tech previews

An important set of Linux scheduler patches were posted for review on Thursday for improving the SMT-aware asymmetric CPU capacity handling. These patches to improve the Linux kernel scheduler around CPU Simultaneous Multi-Threading (SMT) is needed after NVIDIA engineers discovered up to a ~2x performance drop for CPU-intensive workloads on their upcoming Vera Rubin platform.

NVIDIA Linux engineer Andrea Righi has been working to improve the Linux kernel's asymmetric CPU capacity scheduling with better SMT awareness. The adapted behavior with the proposed patches is that

Another round of AMDGPU/AMDKFD kernel driver improvements were sent out this week as feature development for DRM-Next ahead of Linux 7.1 begins to wind down.

With Linux 7.0 due for release in mid-April and the cut-off of new Direct Rendering Manager feature material for the follow-on merge window cutting off about two weeks before that, we're seeing some of the final pull requests of new kernel graphics/display driver bits targeting Linux 7.1. Queued in prior weeks on

Released today was wlroots 0.20 as this Wayland support library used by some Wayland compositors for doing much of the "heavy lifting" of compositor bring-up. Following wlroots 0.20, Sway 1.12-rc1 was released for testing as this closely-aligned Wayland compositor inspired by the i3 window manager.

The wlroots 0.20 release brings new protocol implementations including color-representation-v1, ext-workspace-v1, foreign toplevel support in ext-image

Right on schedule the beta for Ubuntu 26.04 LTS is now available for testing. This is a great opportunity to help test this release ahead of the official Long Term Support release due out on 23 April.

The Ubuntu 26.04 "Resolute Raccoon" was released this evening with the latest packages, including the still-in-development Linux 7.0, kernel, the latest GNOME 50.0 desktop components by default, the fresh Mesa 26.0 graphics drivers,