ollama 0.12.11 released this week as the newest feature update to this easy-to-run method of deploying OpenAI GPT-OSS, DeepSeek-R1, Gemma 3, and other large language models. Exciting with ollama 0.12.11 is that it's now supporting the Vulkan API.

Launching ollama with the OLLAMA_VULKAN=1 environment variable set will now enable Vulkan API support as an alternative to the likes of AMD ROCm and NVIDIA CUDA acceleration. This is

Vulkan 1.4.333 is out with a handful of fixes plus two new extensions.

One of the new extensions in Vulkan 1.4.333 is VK_EXT_custom_resolve. This extension allows using shaders to resolve multi-sample rendering attachments. VK_EXT_custom_resolve was worked on by several Valve engineers including Mike Blumenkrantz, Connor Abbott, and Samuel Pitoiset. Plus engineers from Qualcomm, ARM, Igalia, LunarG, and NVIDIA.

The other new extension is

AMD's GAIA open-source project as a reminder is their "Generrative AI Is Awesome" quick-setup solution for demonstrating generative AI use on AMD hardware platforms with Ryzen CPUs, Radeon GPUs, and/or Ryzen AI NPUs. GAIA is predominantly Microsoft Windows focused but recently they did introduce limited support for Linux that is currently bound to Vulkan-accelerated GPU support. Out today is AMD GAIA 0.13 as another step forward for this AI demonstrator.

Most notable with GAIA 0.13 is introducing

While the "Nova" driver continues to be developed as a modern Rust-written, open-source and in-kernel NVIDIA graphics driver for Linux, for the time being Nouveau is what's working for end-users for those wanting a mainline open-source NVIDIA graphics driver for gaming and other workloads. With Linux 6.19 the Nouveau driver is picking up support for handling larger pages as well as compression support.

Sent out today was the latest round of drm-misc-next updates intended for

Intel today sent out their last batch of planned feature patches for their Xe kernel graphics driver of material intended for Linux 6.19 .

Prior pull requests for the Intel graphics driver in Linux 6.19 included landing Lunar Lake's CASF adaptive sharpening feature , initial Crescent Island graphics card support , initial Xe3P graphics code for Nova Lake , and various other changes.

Today's last batch of Xe feature patches for Linux 6.19 include introducing the "sriov_admin" sysfs tree for

Introduced last year in the Linux 6.10 kernel was the mseal system call for memory sealing to protect the memory mapping against modifications to seal non-writable memory segments or better protecting sensitive data structures. The GNU C Library has finally introduced its mseal function making use of this modern Linux kernel functionality.

Glibc has now added the mseal function on Linux x86_64 and AArch64 environments. Using this Glibc function with Linux 6.10+ can be used for sealing memory mappings to prevent

Following the mainline Linux kernel support for the VisionFive 2 RISC-V single board computer from StarFive, Linux kernel patches are on the way for their new VisionFive 2 Lite low-cost offering. With the StarFive VisionFive 2 Lite this RISC-V board can be procured for as little as $19.9 USD as one of the cheapest yet fairly capable RISC-V SBCs.

The VisionFive 2 Lite is a recently crowd-funded effort from StarFive Tech with the cheapest 2GB version costing just $19.

Intel driver engineer Suraj Kandpal presented at the recent X.Org Developer's Conference (XDC2025) on the challenges around supporting content protection on Linux such as for High-bandwidth Digital Content Protection (HDCP) and Protected Audio Video Path (PAVP).

Many Linux users would rather not see the likes of HDCP support and the like by open-source drivers but it's largely become a fact of life for those wishing to enjoy commercial video streaming services and other modern content on the web.

Fedora 44 is looking at replacing the Linux kernel's console "FBCON" with the user-space-based KMSCON implementation. Eventually the hope remains to deprecate the FBCON/FBDEV code within the Linux kernel.

Jocelyn Falempe of Red Hat laid out the proposal for Fedora 44 to replace FBCON with KMSCON as the default VT console. Falempe elaborated on the benefits of KMSCON in the change proposal:

"fbcon is a terminal emulator in the kernel, which is not well maintained (it lost scrolling support a few