Ubuntu Studio is the variant of Ubuntu Linux focused on content creation and audio recording needs, video editing, and other creative workloads. Ubuntu Studio's desktop hasn't seen too many changes since Ubuntu 12.04 LTS some 13+ years ago. But Ubuntu Studio developers are now considering desktop layout changes to help modernize its appearance.

Ubuntu Studio originally used Xfce as its desktop environment with a top-bar on the desktop. Even after switching over to the KDE Plasma desktop, they kept the panel

All of the PCI subsystem updates were merged last week for the nearly-over Linux 6.19 merge window. Standing out this cycle are Resizable BAR improvements as well as introducing a few new PCIe controller drivers.

The PCI pull for Linux 6.19 brought Resizable BAR (ReBAR) improvements . Among the Resizable BAR improvements were for preventing resource tree corruption when BAR resize fails and restoring BARs to the original size of a BAR resize fail. There are also changes for the Intel Xe and i915

Microsoft today released WSL 2.7.0, the newest version of their Windows Subsystem for Linux code that enables running Linux binaries atop Windows 11 hosts.

WIth WSL 2.7.0 they have re-based to using a downstream Linux kernel derived from Linux 6.6.114 LTS. WSL has been on the Linux 6.6 LTS branch for quite a while now and they remain there even with two newer Long Term Support kernels available (Linux 6.12 and Linux 6.

TheRock is an interesting open-source build platform for ROCm and HIP that has taken shape over the past year. It's become an official ROCm effort albeit still in early stages and relying on community contributions for enhancements for different consumer GPU targets and more. To date its users have largely relied on running the latest TheRock Git while today TheRock v7.10 was tagged.

For those preferring stable points rather than habitually pulling the latest Git, TheRock 7.10 was tagged earlier today. It's

An acquisition announcement that flew under the radar yesterday but then I only noticed today with a GCC MAINTAINERS file update , " with the acquisition of Ventana Microsystems by Qualcomm... " Qualcomm has acquired Ventana as a RISC-V high performance CPU start-up.

Qualcomm announced on Wednesday they are acquiring Ventana Micro Systems to deepen their in-house RISC-V CPU expertise.

Back in October System76 announced a planned release date for Pop!_OS 24.04 LTS and the COSMIC Desktop ... And they've made it! The new Pop!_OS 24.04 is now available for download as the long-awaited update atop an Ubuntu 24.04 LTS base while using their Rust-based COSMIC desktop environment.

It's been a very long journey to say the least in their bringing up of the Rust-based COSMIC

The D7VK project recently started as the Direct3D 7 API implemented atop the Vulkan API akin to DXVK and VKD3D-Proton with newer versions of Microsoft Direct3D. Today marks the D7VK 1.0 release for this project in now declaring itself "production ready" for Linux gamers.

D7VK 1.0 is now available in being "production ready" and "well behaving D3D7 games are now well supported and work without any issues" but not that all

Early this year AMD announced the open-source GAIA project for "Generative AI Is Awesome" as a showcase of AI support atop their Ryzen AI NPUs and other hardware. That began as a Windows-only project but in September AMD added Linux support to GAIA but only using Vulkan acceleration for AI on Radeon GPUs. Now today GAIA 0.14 is available with "native" support for both macOS and Linux.

AMD's GAIA is a a showcase for AI chat agents and other LLM agents on AMD consumer