The Samsung Exynos 7870 Octa SoC released back in 2016 on a 14nm process and powered by eight Arm Cortex-53 cores and a Mali T830 GPU. Finally now for late 2025 there is open-source display driver happenings going mainline for this aging SoC.

Submitted today via the drm-misc-next pull request to DRM-Next ahead of Linux 6.18 is the DSIM bridge driver support for the Exynos 7870.

The Rust-based open-source operating system project Redox OS published a blog post today outlining their development priorities for the remainder of 2025 and then onward to 2026.

Over the course of the next year they are planning to focus more on Redox OS variants, including "Hosted Redox" for use as the operating system within virtual machines (VMs), "Redox Server" for edge and cloud server deployments, and "Redox Desktop" as the daily driver OS.

Some of the Redox

Earlier this week I wrote about Sheaves as an opt-in, per-CPU array-based caching layer likely coming for Linux 6.18. The sheaves patches have been queued into the "slab/for-next" Git branch ahead of the Linux 6.18 kernel merge window. Patches posted now by Google are showing the Linux Sheaves code having a massive beneficial impact for large AMD systems.

Google engineer Sudarsan Mahendran posted some benchmarks of the SLUB per-CPU Sheaves patches on Friday. The patches

Cloud Hypervisor 48.0 is now available for this Intel-started, open-source and Rust-based VMM focused on modern cloud workloads. Cloud Hypervisor continues to tailor to Windows and Linux guests while emphasizing security and cloud-native workloads.

Cloud Hypervisor 48 introduces experimental "fw_cfg" device support for being able to pass configuration data and files like VM boot configurations from the host to the guest. There is also experimental support for Inter-VM Shared Memory "ivshmem" as another new feature.

Last month I wrote about initrd support potentially being on its way out of the Linux kernel . For years Linux developers have wanted to phase out the classic initial RAM disk support from the Linux kernel and it looks like that day may finally be near with patches having been posted for removing the support.

Askar Safin was the Linux developer who a few weeks back brought up going ahead with the initrd removal and volunteered to submit such patches. On Friday evening those patches were posted to the Linux kernel mailing list for proposing the initrd

Ahead of the GNOME 49 stable release expected on Wednesday, libadwaita 1.8 released this week to incorporate all the enhancements made over the past six months to this GTK4 library that provides GNOME-specific widgets and features.

Libadwaita 1.8 brings AdwShortcutsDialog as a replacement to GTK's deprecated GtkShortcutsWindow, various shortcut improvements, full support for CSS media queries that aligns with GTK's support for it, and typography enhancements. There are also a number of other smaller changes as part of libadwaita 1.8

Following yesterday's release of the bi-weekly Wine 10.15 development release, Wine-Staging 10.15 is out with 300 patches atop the upstream Wine codebase.

Wine-Staging continues to be the testing/experimental flavor of Wine. Wine-Staging 10.15 comes in at 300 patches now after some D3D11 and MSXML patches were upstreamed to Wine proper.

There is a new patch for this five year old bug report over the

In the past few months at Intel between layoffs / corporate reorganizations and some deciding to pursue job opportunities elsewhere, there have been unfortunate impacts to their Linux engineering resources. Intel over the summer lost some prominent Linux engineering talent and in turn has even led to upstream Linux drivers being orphaned along with other driver maintainers departing and various other staffing changes . Unfortunate for Intel, another notable Linux name has left the company.

Colin Ian King announced today that it was his last day at Intel. Colin King had just been employed by

Wine 10.15 is out today as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software for running Windows games and applications on Linux as well as powering Valve's Proton for Steam Play.

Most exciting with Wine 10.15 is delivering the initial integration around the NTSYNC Linux kernel driver for better emulating the Windows NT synchronization primitives. With Linux 6.14+ the NTSYNC kernel driver is in good shape and following recent Wine activity the initial usage of the NTSYNC kernel driver