The patches merged today add initial Nova Lake S, Nova Lake U, Nova Lake H, Nova Lake HX, and Nova Lake UL entires to the Mesa common
Intel Begins Adding Nova Lake Xe3P To Linux OpenGL/Vulkan Drivers - Some Will Lack Ray-Tracing
The patches merged today add initial Nova Lake S, Nova Lake U, Nova Lake H, Nova Lake HX, and Nova Lake UL entires to the Mesa common
Fedora Linux 43 Cleared For Release Next Week
While Fedora 43 wasn't ready for release this week due to outstanding blocker bugs, at today's Go/No-Go meeting it was decided that Fedora 43 is now in a position for shipping next week.
It was decided Fedora 43 is a GO for release now that the blocker bugs have been addressed over the past week.
AMD Radeon AI PRO R9700 Hitting Retailers Next Week For $1299 USD
AMD's David McAfee announced today that the Radeon AI PRO R9
KDE Plasma 6.5's Overlay Planes Support Yields Significant Power Savings
Plasma 6.5's KWin has the ability to support overlay planes now rather than just the primary and cursor planes. Having overlay planes can be particularly beneficial in terms of power and overall efficiency for video playback, which will now work
Canonical Academy Announced For New Ubuntu Linux Certifications
Canonical Academy is described the Ubuntu publisher as:
"a new platform that enables individuals and enterprises to validate their open source skills with qualifications designed and maintained by the engineers behind Ubuntu. The first available track is the SysAdmin track, which includes four exams that test practical expertise with
Ubuntu 25.10 Unattended Upgrades Broken Due To Rust Coreutils Bug
Earlier this month it was reported that the date -r command can report the wrong date on Ubuntu 25.10 due to a Rust Coreutils difference compared to GNU Coreutils. It was noted that this could cause issues for backup scripts and
Linux's Proposed Cache Aware Scheduling Benchmarks Show Big Potential On AMD EPYC Turin
The past number of months has seen a lot of work by Intel Linux kernel engineers on cache-aware scheduling / load balancing for helping modern CPUs that have multiple caches. With cache aware scheduling , tasks that will likely share resources could be aggregated into the same cache domain to enjoy better cache locality. With the cache aware scheduling patches recently updated and now working past the "request for comments" stage, I was eager to try out these new patches. Especially with a 44% time reduction reported for one of
Canonical Begins Snap'ing Up Silicon-Optimized AI LLMs For Ubuntu Linux
Canonical has begun rolling out optimized inference Snaps as a new means of deploying AI LLMs on Ubuntu-powered devices. The hope is that with the likes of sudo snap install deepseek-r1 --beta you can be easily
GTK 4.22 To Natively Support SVG - Including Animations
The GTK 4.22 toolkit will be properly supporting SVG vector graphics natively within the toolkit and support for SVG animations and the like. Matthias Clasen has been building up GTK's own SVG capabilities in recent months rather than relying on librsvg and trying to
ESWIN Launching EBC7702 Mini-DTX RISC-V Board With Dual-Die EIC7702X SoC
I haven't yet found a formal announcement from ESWIN Computing around this new product but Canonical posted to the Ubuntu blog minutes ago around the EBC770