The first Linux kernel patches specific to their next-gen Vera Rubin NLV144 "VR144NVL" were posted today to the public Linux kernel mailing list.

NVIDIA's successor to Grace Blackwell pairs their custom-designed 88-core Arm-based Vera CPU with a Rubin GPU and allows for rack-scale deployments up to 144 GPUs. Vera Rubin NLV144 is expected to formally launch in the latter half of 2026 but, of course, Linux

David Rosca who started out as a contractor for AMD working on their open-source video encode/decode capabilities for Linux formally joined the company earlier this summer. He's continued to be quite busy plumbing numerous enhancements into their accelerated video support on Linux, which includes RADV with Vulkan Video.

The latest milestone for RADV Vulkan Video to celebrate is enabling the VK_KHR_video_encode_intra_refresh extension for allowing applications to perform intra-refresh in video encode operations for better error resilience and bitrate efficiency

The Libre-Chip project led by Jacob Lifshay has received a grant from NLNet to develop a prototype/proof-of-concept processor design that can be high performance but not vulnerable to speculative execution vulnerabilities like Spectre.

Libre-Chip is an effort to develop free/libre CPU/GPU designs and supporting software. Jacob Lifshay is leading the Libre-Chip project and he previously was the one working on Vulkan-CPU and Kazan as a CPU-based Vulkan implementation . Joining Libre-Chip as co-founder is

Systemd 258 is nearing release with many big changes to this init system / service manager . Systemd 258-rc3 was released today with some last minute fixes while also now adding that the next release, systemd 259, will face increased Linux system requirements.

The systemd 258-rc3 release is now available. No major last minute features being squeezed into the release but the release notes did add in that systemd 259 is expected to up the system requirements. This next

AMD's GPUOpen team just released the FidelityFX SDK 2.0 development kit and with it is now the inclusion of the FidelityFX Super Resolution 4 (FSR 4) upscaling tech to complement the existing FSR 2 / FSR 3 support.

The AMD FidelityFX SDK 2.0 release just occurred to begin rolling out new machine learning based neural rendering technologies. The first major addition with the FidelityFX SDK 2.0 series is including FidelityFX Super Resolution 4.

Following the release of Mesa 25.2 from two weeks ago, Mesa 25.2.1 is out now as the first point release. Mesa 25.2.1 is quite heavy on bug fixes and some other notable back-ports from Mesa 25.3-devel.

First up, Mesa 25.2.1 fixes the NVIDIA Kepler GPU support with the NVK open-source Vulkan API driver. A mix-up when landing the Blackwell support for Mesa 25.2

MoltenVK 1.4 is available today for this Vulkan portability implementation that layers the Vulkan API atop Apple's Metal graphics drivers for allowing Vulkan games/apps to run across macOS, iOS, and tvOS devices.

MoltenVK 1.4 is significant in that it opens up Vulkan 1.4 graphics now to Apple devices atop the Metal graphics drivers. Vulkan 1.4 should be working out nicely now that a number of new Vulkan API extensions are wired up for this library. Newly supported extensions by MoltenVK include VK_

With the Ubuntu 25.10 release in October they are aiming to have a better ARM64 experience with their generic desktop ISO thanks to a new improvement they have been working on called Stubble.

Due to the ongoing mess around ARM desktop/laptop hardware support being primarily reliant on Device Trees rather than ACPI discovery, Ubuntu 25.10 and later will use a new software project they have been working on called Stubble. Stubble is a DTB-loading kernel stub developed by Canonical. This minimal UEFI

LibreOffice 25.8 is now available as the latest half-year feature release to this open-source office suite that is one of the most comprehensive alternatives to Microsoft Office for Linux and other platforms.

LibreOffice 25.8 brings various user interface enhancements and a variety of performance improvements yielding up to 30% faster performance for opening files in the Writer word processor and Calc spreadsheet programs. LibreOffice 25.8 also continues making enhancements to its Microsoft Office file format compatibility. Plus there are a variety of