Well known GNOME developer Georges Stavracas has been working to make OBS Studio fully-working under Wayland and today that reality has been achieved with native Wayland support and the ability to capture monitors and windows on Wayland compositors.

The OBS Studio software for streaming and recording that is quite popular with game streamers is now set to see good Wayland support for its next release. Stavracas for a while has been working on allowing good and native Wayland support for OBS Studio with the last of that work being merged upstream today. Among the work

Patches back in 2013 were proposed for "PRAM" as persistent over-kexec memory storage to allow saving of memory pages across kernel reboots via kexec or when hitting a new kernel via kexec. Nearly one year ago Oracle retook up the effort and sent out PKRAM as their "preserved-over-Kexec" RAM and now finally a second iteration of PKRAM has been published.

PKRAM remains focused on providing the ability to save memory pages of the currently running kernel so that those pages can be restored after a

With AMD's busy Q1 of introducing the Radeon RX 6700 XT graphics card, introducing the Ryzen 5000 mobile series, the AMD EPYC 7003 "Milan" series launch, and continuing to advance their open-source/Linux software efforts, it was another busy quarter. Here is a look back from the Linux/open-source perspective of what interested readers the most.

Not counting our Linux hardware reviews or featured benchmark articles, below is a look at the most

After the release candidate phase kicked off last month , systemd 248 is now officially available as the newest feature release for this dominant Linux init system and service manager.

Highlights of new systemd 248 features include:

- A new concept of "system extension images" as images that can extend the /usr/ or /opt/ hierarchies at run-time with additional files. The images can be read-only and its usr/opt hierarchies combined via OverlayFS. This led to a new systemd-sysext

GTK 4.2 is out today as the newest stable release of this open-source toolkit and incorporates bug fixes and other improvements as a result of feedback from developers working on transitioning from GTK3 to GTK4.

Most exciting with GTK 4.2 is its new "NGL" OpenGL renderer being the default across Linux, macOS, and Windows platforms. The NGL renderer is the default across those major platforms while the old OpenGL renderer is still being maintained for the time being and can be enabled via an environment variable

Arm today announced the ARMv9 architecture (or Armv9 as it's officially styled) with a focus on performance, machine learning, digital signal processing, and security.

ARMv9 is introducing the Arm Confidential Compute Architecture (CCA) for confidential computing with dynamically created "Realms", Scalable Vector Extensions 2 (SVE2) for greater machine learning performance and digital signal processing capabilities, and other improvements over ARMv8.

Arm is expecting CPU performance increases of "more than 30%" over the next two

Along with today's NVIDIA 465 series Linux beta an exciting shift at the company is they are now supporting accelerated GPU access by VMs with their GeForce consumer GPUs.

Moving forward NVIDIA is now supporting GeForce GPU passthrough for Windows virtual machines running from a Linux host.

This is a big win for those wanting to run Windows games from within a virtual machine while maintaining your Linux host/desktop and are using a GeForce graphics card. NVIDIA previously did not support this GPU passthrough for their GeForce graphics cards but that

While looking forward to the NVIDIA 470 series Linux driver for Wayland support improvements , before getting there NVIDIA is first introducing the 465 driver series. Today marks the first publicly available NVIDIA 465 Linux driver beta.

NVIDIA's 465.19.01 Linux driver release brings many bug fixes but also some new features/improvements. The NVIDIA 465.19.01 Linux beta highlights include:

- New Vulkan extensions of KHR_synchronization2, KHR_