While the upstream, open-source Nouveau driver already supports NVIDIA's Hopper and Blackwell graphics processors with the GPU System Processor (GSP) code path, the bring-up of the Rust-written Nova driver remains ongoing. Out this week is the 12th iteration of the Hopper and Blackwell enablement for this future open-source NVIDIA Linux driver.

It's looking like the Hopper and Blackwell enablement work could soon be wrapping up for the Nova driver. NVIDIA engineer John Hubbard sent out the v12

Intel this week rolled out new versions of their open-source XPU Manager and Linux NPU driver software.

Intel's XPU Manager is their open-source tool for managing and monitoring Intel data center GPUs. The Intel XPU Manager supports the monitoring and management functionality from the command-line or via RESTful APIs for managing fleets of systems or clusters in the data center. The Intel XPU Manager works on both Windows and Linux systems.

While originally developed for the Intel Data Center Flex Series and Max Series GPUs, the newer

As another interesting takeaway from this week's Microsoft Build 2026 conference beyond their open-source Intelligent Terminal project is Coreutils for Windows. Microsoft is maintaining a fork of Rust Coreutils for Windows to ease the developer experience across Windows / WSL / macOS / Linux.

Coreutils for Windows is Microsoft's maintained build of the Rust Coreutils (uutils) project along with findutils and grep. The newly-established microsoft/coreutils on GitHub argues it as:

"A Microsoft-maintained build of uutils/coreutils,

As a follow-up to the article last week about KRAID as a new compiler for modern Arm Mali graphics , that initial code has now been merged to Mesa 26.2 for benefiting the Panfrost and PanVK open-source drivers.

Faith Ekstrand of Collabora has been spearheading the effort on KRAID as this new graphics shader compiler for Arm Mali v9 "Valhall" and newer Mali graphics. KRAID is inspired by the NAK compiler from the open-source NVIDIA NVK Vulkan driver in Mesa.

While still in its early

At the beginning of the year Canonical announced a Steam Snap package for Ubuntu ARM64 that leverages the FEX emulator for running x86/x86_64 games on ARM64. After months of testing and improvements, they now consider their Steam Snap for ARM64 to be stable.

Just in time considering this week's NVIDIA RTX Spark announcement , Canonical announced their Steam Snap for ARM64 is being treated now as stable. The platforms where so far they have found the Steam

Marek Olšák who had been a longtime AMD Linux driver engineer specializing in the RadeonSI Gallium3D driver, recently began working for Valve on their Linux graphics driver team. His focus has understandably shifted to working on the RADV Vulkan driver and one of his early optimizations now with the Valve hat on is up to a 100% pixel throughput optimization for the RADV driver, which is already quite well optimized thanks to years of investment from Valve, Red Hat, and others.

A merge request opened by

Microsoft today announced their newest open-source creation... Under the MIT license it's the Intelligent Terminal.

Microsoft's Intelligent Terminal is a fork of the Windows Terminal code to add native AI agent integration. The Intelligent Terminal includes an agent status bar built into the terminal, an " agent pane: a context-aware, dedicated, configurable, docked pane with your agent CLI of choice ", automatic error detection on commands, agent management support, and configurable with different AI agents.

Microsoft intends to

KDE developers are sticking to their plans for Plasma 6.8 going Wayland-exclusive in dropping X11 support. Meanwhile it turns out 95% of current Plasma 6.6 users are running already on Wayland.

KDE developer David Edmundson authored a blog pot today outlining the latest preparations for Plasma's last X11-supported release with Plasma 6.7. With Plasma 6.8 later in the year, the Plasma X11 session support will be removed and a mass clean-up of