The latest improvement to the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver by prominent AMD Mesa developer Marek Olšák is enabling support for up to 64K x 64K textures with RDNA4 GPUs.

Current generation RDNA4 GPUs can handle textures up to a size of 64K x 64K and for Mesa 26.0 the proper handling is now in place for supporting these massive textures. In order to accommodate the larger textures up to 64K per dimension, many of the width and height

The set of six branches containing SoC and platform updates/additions for the Linux 6.19 kernel have been merged for enabling a lot of new RISC-V and ARM 64-bit hardware as well as enhancing some existing SoCs/platforms.

Arnd Bergmann sent out all of the SoC updates/additions on Friday for the ongoing Linux 6.19 merge window. There is some exciting new hardware, Device Trees for some new ARM machines, and more:

- Initial support for the Tenstorrent Blackhole ! The

FEX 2512 is out toda as the newest monthly update for this software that enables running x86/x86_64 Linux binaries on ARM64 Linux, including the likes of Wine and Valve's Steam Play (Proton) for being able to run Windows games on 64-bit ARM Linux devices.

The FEX project is all the more important now that Valve announced the Steam Frame VR headset powered by a Qualcomm Snapdragon 8 Gen 3 ARM64 SoC. The Steam Frame

Flowblade 2.24 released today as the newest version of this open-source, non-linear video editing application. Flowblade 2.24 brings a number of refinements while also interesting is their commentary concerning the future with Wayland and GTK4 porting.

With today's Flowblade 2.24 release there are many UI/UX updates like new ways for creating compound clips and dual trim for sync-relation clips. Plus some enhancements to themes and other user interface / visual changes.

For anyone still relying on Solaris in production or just nostalgic Solaris users from the grand Sun Microsystems days, Solaris 11.4 SRU 87 was released by Oracle this week as one of the heavier stable release updates in recent memory.

Solaris 11.4 SRU 87 is now available as the latest installment of the long-running and dead-end Solaris 11.4 series.

Oracle Solaris 11.4 SRU 87 brings new security features like useradd account activation options, mitigations for the AMD

Beyond the main set of Rust changes to land in Linux 6.19 earlier this week, as we near the end of the first week of two for the Linux 6.19 merge window... More Rust changes. This time around the driver core updates for the kernel bring a number of Rust changes.

Danilo Krummrich on Friday sent out all of the driver core changes for Linux 6.19. As has been common in recent kernel cycles, a lot of the driver core activity is around

It was a busy start of December for KDE Plasma developers in working out several hardware fixes for the current Plasma 6.5 series while also working on new Plasma 6.6 features like the per-DRM-plane color pipelines.

KDE developer Nate Graham is out with his latest weekly recap of all interesting Plasma changes. Some of this week's Plasma highlights include:

- Plasma 6.6 will support per-DRM-plane color pipelines. This follows the DRM color pipeline going into Linux 6.19

There have been many Intel Linux/open-source software engineers to leave the company over the past year among other setbacks for their Linux/open-source initiatives . Announced this Friday night is one of their highest profile departures of the year as it pertains to their Linux efforts.

Brendan Gregg announced he has resigned from Intel. Brendan Gregg was hired in at Intel three years ago straight as an Intel Fellow. For most longtime Linux users he likely needs no introduction. But for those unfamiliar, he is the creator of