Derek Clark who has been leading the efforts around Lenovo Legion gaming drivers for Linux and ensuring good support for the Lenovo Legion Go handheld on Linux sent out a new Linux patch series this weekend.

This new patch series preps the Lenovo WMI GameZone driver for an "Extreme" platform profile but one that isn't currently reliable with existing Lenovo devices/firmware. However, plumbing this mode does ultimately address some unexpected "Performance" mode behavior for devices on Linux. With some devices when users have run Linux and switched to

AMD on Friday sent in their first patch of AMDGPU kernel graphics driver changes they are ready to begin queuing in the DRM-Next tree until the Linux 6.19 merge window kicks off in December and leading to a stable release around February.

With this being the first of a few pull requests of new AMDGPU (and AMDKFD) material destined for Linux 6.19, it's not too particularly noteable. This "new stuff for 6.19" includes continued work by AMD around SR-

Resources is the open-source app aligned with GNOME/GTK for system resource monitoring . Resources has proven to be quite versatile with a nice UI and able to display CPU, GPU, NPU, disk, and other metrics . Out today is Resources 1.9 with the latest capabilities for this app.

Resources 1.9 adds support for reading graphics processor information for Intel GPUs when using the modern Intel Xe kernel graphics driver where as before it only supported using the i915 kernel driver.

NVIDIA is taking the open-source and upstream "Nova" kernel graphics driver quite seriously for their hardware. Hitting the mailing lists on Friday night were initial patches in beginning to make preparations toward "next-gen GPU" support. Digging into the comments, it's indeed for post-Blackwell GPUs.

Catching me by surprise last night was seeing this patch series hit the wire: gpu: nova: add boot42 support for next-gen GPUs . Clearly calling out "next-gen GPUs".

The Servo open-source browser engine is out with their September 2025 development highlights. This Rust-based browser engine originally started by Mozilla continues making steady progress as well as to the "servoshell" demo/example browser implementation.

Servoshell added a new "experimental mode" button to turn on experimental engine features. This button is an alternative to using the "--enable-experimental-web-platform-features" command line argument. All engine features including incomplete and experimental features are then enabled.

Plasma 6.5 debuted this week that KDE developers and users have been celebrating. But it's already on to working out fixes for Plasma 6.5.1 as well as new feature activity toward Plasma 6.6.

KDE developer Nate Graham opened this week's Plasma status update by commenting on the newly-released Plasma 6.5 being a "rather smooth" release. One significant regression noted was when using older AMD GPUs that the cursor would be turned into "Swiss cheese" but that regression

The newest weekly test release of the FreeBSD 15.0 is now available for evaluation ahead of the planned December official release.

FreeBSD 15 at large has been working on progress around reproducible builds, better hardware support especially among laptops and WiFi devices and more, various desktop experience enhancements, and a ton of other updates both for kernel and user-space. With FreeBSD 15.0 Beta 3 are yet more fixes while also now having working MediaTek MT76 WiFi support.

The highlights for this week'

The uutils project announced tonight the release of Rust Coreutils 0.3, another step forward for this Rust version alternative to GNU Coreutils that has been attracting a lot of interest lately due to Ubuntu 25.10 now using it by default.

Rust Coreutils 0.3 brings improved GNU test suite compatibility with now passing 532 tests, or nearly an 84% pass rate. There is improved error handling and other updates to better match the behavior of GNU Coreutils... Such as the recently noted

It's been rare in recent years seeing any new OpenGL extensions given the wild success these days of the Vulkan API with its vast hardware adoption and increasing software support around that modern graphics and compute API. Yet this October has been unusual with now seeing multiple new OpenGL extensions merged to the OpenGL registry.

It was surprising enough when earlier this month OpenGL mesh shader support was merged with the cross-vendor GL_EXT_mesh_shader extension. That extension was requested by the Nvidium project as a rendering engine for