Alexandre Julliard just released Wine 11.11 as the newest bi-weekly development release of this open-source software that powers Valve's Steam Play (Proton) and allows for running Windows games and applications under Linux as well as other platforms.

Wine 11.11 brings layered windows support in its Wayland driver. The Wine Wayland driver now implements min/max size hints for non-resizable windows, treats maximized+full-screen state as full-screen, and layered window handling as part

AMD today announced the opening of pre-orders for their Ryzen AI Halo petite PC powered by AMD Ryzen AI Max+ "Strix Halo" and working with either Microsoft Windows or Linux.

Back at CES in January, Lisa Su showed off the Ryzen AI Halo as a mini PC built around their powerful Strix Halo platform and to compete with the likes of NVIDIA GB10 / DGX Spark products for AI workloads. The Ryzen AI Halo comes with up to 128GB of unified memory, support for up to

Linux 7.1 stable is expected to be released this Sunday with its many new features . Immediately following the Linux v7.1 tagging, the Linux 7.2 merge window will open and a lot of new feature material is expected to be merged over the next two weeks.

Based on my monitoring of the mailing lists and the "-next" Git branches, below is a look at some of the new feature material for Linux 7.2. There is always the possibility of last minute issues or Linus

Last year when releasing Red Hat Enterprise Linux 10.0, Red Hat announced a RHEL 10.0 developer preview for RISC-V . Since then that RISC-V developer preview hadn't been updated but now Red Hat has published a new developer preview snapshot based on RHEL 10.2.

Red Hat announced today RHEL 10.2 for RISC-V is now available in developer preview form, 13 months after their original release. This second developer preview contains additional upstream code to benefit

On Sunday it's anticipated that Linus Torvalds will released the stable Linux 7.1 kernel. This is a really terrific mid-year update to the Linux kernel! Here's what makes me excited about Linux 7.1.

In my testing of the Linux 7.1 kernel over the past number of weeks and prior to that all of the monitoring of the merge window and "-next" branches before that, here is what has me the most excited about Linux 7.1:

- The new

Among the many new features planned for Ubuntu 26.10 is switching the default D-Bus implementation over to using the high performance Dbus-Broker drop-in replacement.

Seven years after Fedora 30 switched over to Dbus-Broker for its default D-Bus implementation, Ubuntu Linux is achieving the same with Ubuntu 26.10. Ubuntu developer Alessandro Astone posted today about the Dbus-Broker plans for Ubuntu 26.10 for this implementation providing not only better performance but greater reliability and

One of the exciting additions to the Linux 7.1 kernel is the introduction of the new NTFS file-system kernel driver . While in good shape already and proving advantageous over other NTFS open-source driver options, one of the initial limitations on it is around Windows native symbolic link handling but that is now in the process of being resolved.

Windows native symbolic links is for handling symlinks at the file-system level compared to the conventional Windows .lnk shortcuts. The Windows native symbolic links is akin to the symlinks

Linux cryptography subsystem expert Eric Biggers Eric Biggers of Google worked on some pretty nice Intel/AMD x86_64 optimizations over the years. Especially around AVX-512 optimizations within the Linux kernel's crypto code has been one of his many nice improvements to the kernel in recent times. Today he's out with another enticing AVX-512 optimization and this time it's for the software RAID code.

Biggers has written an AVX-512 optimized xor_gen(