Yesterday saw the release of AMD's Lemonade 11.0 local AI server as well as ROCm 7.14 as the first production release built using TheRock . Out today is AMD's GAIA 0.22 software as their latest AI software release in working toward the AMD Advancing AI event next week in California.

AMD's GAIA local AI app has recently seen a lot of work around email integration and allowing to easily build custom AI agents . With the GAIA 0.22 release, the

An intern with the FreeBSD Foundation is working on porting AMD's ROCm compute stack to run on this popular BSD environment.

While FreeBSD employs the AMDGPU DRM kernel driver ported over from the Linux kernel and continues to sync up with newer Linux kernel versions for its DRM graphics/display driver support, FreeBSD to date hasn't seen any ROCm compute support. AMD directly hasn't done much traditionally with the BSDs for their graphics driver support -- far different from NVIDIA who has long provided FreeBSD driver packages, albeit

Simon Ser just announced the stable release of the Wayland 1.26 release.

Most significant with Wayland 1.26 is the wl_pointer.warp event. The wl_pointer.warp event addition intends to address a shortcoming where with Wayland right now in some situations the Wayland client cannot obtain the correct position information for the pointer. With wl_pointer.warp it can be used to notify a new pointer position without an end-user-initiated pointer motion event. The merge request had explained as

Introduced in 1996 with Internet Explorer 3.0, Microsoft Comic Chat provided comic-like avatars driven IRC chat client. After 30 years, this proprietary IRC chat client that was removed in Internet Explorer 6.0, is now open-source software.

The most unexpected open-source code drop from Microsoft likely ever is today's open-sourcing of Comic Chat... What's next, Clippy? Comic Chat provided automatic illustrations of comic avatars for representing the IRC chat. Comic

This is quite unexpected and was not on my bingo card for this year or even decade... The Linux driver for the floppy disk controller in Apple's legacy Super Woz Integrated Machine (SWIM) saw a large set of patches today for improving its performance and delivering various fixes.

The Linux swim floppy driver is used for Macintosh 68k era hardware with the Super Wozniak Integrated Machine floppy disk controller IC. The SWIM chip was first introduced back in 1988. These 2026 Linux

GETAC manufactures a line of rugged/semi-rugged laptops for use in the public safety, defense, industrial manufacturing, oil and gas, and other industries. While shipping with Microsoft Windows out-of-the-box, a new driver has been proposed as GETAC MPMD as a minimal ACPI driver for improving support for these GETAC rugged laptops. In particular, the driver will allow the various programmable buttons on these laptops to work under Linux.

With these GETAC rugged laptops using Intel Core CPUs, the Linux support appears

The Ubuntu Kernel Team issued a statement this morning to proactively warn Ubuntu Linux users on Ubuntu 26.04 and Ubuntu 24.04 LTS HWE users that the next kernel point release will contain a performance regression for AMD GPUs in compute-heavy workloads with up to a 42x performance hit. The positive news is that due to this being an upstream regression in a Linux 7.0 point release, upstream stakeholders and other Linux distributions that more quickly shipped the problematic code already have a fix coming

Now in the upstream linux-firmware.git centralized repository is the firmware binary needed for enabling the Imagination Tech PowerVR BXM-4-64 Rogue GPU found with the Alibaba T-Head TH1520 SoC.

Imagination's PowerVR DRM kernel driver and PowerVR Vulkan driver in Mesa has been seeing BXM-4-64 work for a while. Finally now the firmware for this GPU is upstream in linux-firmware.git as the missing piece for making a nice user experience story for those wanting