Facebook's Meta already employs an all-star team of Linux kernel engineers and it doesn't appear that they are over in recruiting top-tier Linux kernel talent. One of Intel's senior Linux software engineers is now the latest high profile kernel developer onboard at Meta.

Earlier this month I wrote about longtime Intel Linux kernel engineer Kirill Shutemov leaving the company after 14 years . His contributions to the Linux kernel on Intel's behalf can't be overstated with being a maintainer of Trust Domain Extensions

Proton 10.0-2 beta was released today by Valve and CodeWeavers for furthering this Wine-derived software powering Steam Play for running Windows games on Linux with great success.

Proton 10.0-2 beta makes more games playable now under Linux. The latest games known to be working include Stardust Skate, STAR OCEAN THE DIVINE FORCE, Champions of Anteria, IL-2 Sturmovik Cliffs of Dover, Click&Fight, Tunnet, WRC Generations, and Post Mortem.

Proton 10.0-2

The staging area of the Linux kernel, where preliminary code initially appears to mature until being promoted out, continues seeing a lot of code churn. With Linux 6.17 the staging updates were submitted and now merged with one driver in particular standing out.

The staging changes this cycle weren't too particularly noteworthy on a grand scale. While back during the Linux 6.16 merge window it was talked about that the GPIB bus code might be ready to move out of staging in the next kernel cycle (

Christian Schaller, a Fedora developer and Director of Software Engineering at Red Hat, recently began exploring the potential of AI usage more from the open-source/Linux perspective. He was left impressed from his ability to easily generate a Python application for internal Red Hat use to porting the venerable Xtraceroute program to GTK4 and Vulkan.

Schaller recently decided to leverage Claude AI to get a better feeling for today's LLM capabilities and seeing the potential impact from a Linux/open-source developer perspective.

It had been two years since the last update to the AMDGPU X.Org DDX driver but now xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0.0 is now available for those relying on this driver/hardware-specific driver for X.Org enabled Linux systems rather than the xf86-video-modesetting generic driver or a Wayland-based desktop.

Coming as a surprise is xf86-video-amdgpu 25.0 as the successor to xf86-video-amdgpu 2

AMD's GPUOpen group today released the AMD Interactive Streaking SDK 1.1 release that now delivers Linux support alongside the existing Microsoft Windows support. The AMD Interactive Streaming SDK is designed to provide pieces for developers to build-out low-latency streaming solutions for cloud gaming, virtual desktop infrastructure (VDI), and embedded applications. This MIT-licensed streaming SDK was originally launched by AMD back in March as Windows-only while now is thankfully also native to Linux.

The headline feature of the AMD Interactive Streaming SDK

Along with the better handling of multi-device file-systems such as Btrfs' native RAID capabilities and now allowing more efficient writing of zeroes to modern storage devices , the number of VFS pull requests for Linux 6.17 also added some other extra goodies.

Some new system calls to Linux 6.17 is introducing file_getattr() and file_setattr() as more extensible alternatives to FS_IOC_FSGETXATTR and FS_IOC_FSSETXATTR. The pull request explains of file_getattr and