While the Asahi Linux project has faced some setbacks, such as most recently with Alyssa Rosenzweig leaving the project and still working to bring-up M3/M4 support, the upstreaming effort by Asahi Linux developers to get their changes to the upstream Linux kernel continues.

Janne Grunau posted the set of 37 patches today to the Linux kernel mailing list in working to get the Device Tree (DT) files upstreamed for the Apple M2 Pro, Max, and Ultra devices. The M2 Pro / Max /

Posted today to the Linux kernel mailing list was the patch series for introducing the AMD ISP4 driver to the mainline kernel. This supports the image signal processor IP that to date is found with HP's Strix Halo powered ZBook Ultra G1a laptop. With time, future AMD Ryzen laptops will also likely be leveraging this ISP technology for offloading more webcamera work from the CPU, but for now the HP ZBook Ultra G1a is the main beneficiary of this open-source driver.

The necessary patches for the

The newest monthly snapshot of Ubuntu 25.10 is now available for testing and is the final planned monthly snapshot prior to the October release of the Questing Quokka.

Utkarsh Gupta of Canonical announced today the Questing Snapshot 4 release. Back in May was the Canonical announcement of monthly Ubuntu snapshot releases to complement their daily ISOs and for help in facilitating monthly testing as well as further building out their release automation. This is now their fourth snapshot release and the last before Ubuntu 25.10's official debut

The newest feature addition for Mesa 25.3 is enabling support 8x multi-sample anti-aliasing (MSAA) within the LLVMpipe software rasterizer.

While LLVMpipe has a tough enough time handling demanding OpenGL workloads with CPU-based rendering workloads, for lightweight OpenGL tasks where anti-aliasing may be desired, 8x MSAA is now supported.

Up to this point the LLVMpipe software driver has only handled up to 4x MSAA while for Mesa 25.3 is now 8x MSAA. Michał Kró

While Linus Torvalds doesn't too often like new kernel options being enabled by default, one area where it has proven beneficial and otherwise an oversight by those configuring their own kernel builds is the architecture-optimized crypto algorithm implementations. Some will enable support for different kernel crypto algorithms only to forget or be unaware that there are CPU architecture specific implementations that can also typically be enabled for much better performance over the common code. Google engineer Eric Biggers has been cleaning this up and BLAKE2s is the latest receiving treatment.

Ahead of the upcoming SUSE Linux Enterprise 16.0 release, SUSE engineers are busy finishing up work on their new "Agama" operating system installer. Agama 17 is now available as what will be the installer powering SUSE Linux Enterprise 16 installations or a version very similar to this latest milestone.

Agama 17 brings better representation of wired network connections, improvements to the storage user interface, more options on the OS registration page, allow skipping the SELinux configuration, and more.

This week's drm-misc-next pull of feature updates to the small Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) driver bring a few updates worth pointing out ahead of the Linux 6.18 cycle.

New hardware support includes the Radxa Ra620 being added to the bridge code along with the Device Tree bindings. The Rockchip DRM driver meanwhile adds support for the RK3576 SoC plus its bindings as well. The Rockchip RK3576 is an AIoT SoC made up of four Cortex

LF Networking, the networking group within the Linux Foundation, announced from the Open-Source Summit Europe today the release of Essedum 1.0. Essedum 1.0 is for integrating AI into networking environments.

The heart of the open-source Essedum project was contributed to LF Networking by Infosys. Essedum covers data ingestion, pipeline orchestration, and model deployment for AI-powered networking solutions.

Last year Intel and AMD formed an x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group "EAG" in collaboration with key partners. The x86 Ecosystem Advisory Group is to collaborate and innovate further around the x86_64 ISA. With AMD and Intel in agreement, FRED (Flexible Return Event Delivery), AVX10, and Advanced Performance Extensions (APX) are some of the early areas where they are finding common ground and interest.

Robert Hormuth as the CVP of Architecture and Strategy, Data Center Solutions Group