RADV Driver Lands Another Big Improvement For Early AMD GCN Graphics Cards
Beyond Linux 6.19 switching old AMD GCN 1.0 and 1.1 GPUs to the AMDGPU kernel driver by default…
Linux Addressing Out-Of-Memory Killer Inaccuracy On Large Core Count Systems
A patch is on the way to the Linux kernel and looks like it could be ready for…
Hyprland 0.53 Released With New Launcher For Crash Recovery & Safe Mode, New Welcome App
Hyprland 0.53 was released today as the last feature update to this Wayland compositor for 2025. Hyprland 0.53…
KDE’s “This Week In Plasma” Will Become Less Frequent Without New Volunteers
The This Week In Plasma series written by KDE developer Nate Graham has been a great way to…
The Death Of Clear Linux, Other Intel Linux Engineering Setbacks In 2025
When it came to the most viewed AMD Linux/open-source news of 2025 there were a lot of accomplishments…
LLVM Considering An AI Tool Policy, AI Bot For Fixing Build System Breakage Proposed
Last week a request for comments (RFC) was issued around establishing an LLVM AI Tool Use Policy. The…
Google Taps More Performance Out Of AMD Zen CPUs With BPF-CCX Scheduling
For helping with thread placement on modern AMD Zen systems with multiple CPU core complexes, Google has been…
Gemini AI Yielding Sloppy Code For Ubuntu Development With New Helper Script
A few weeks ago it was mentioned by a Canonical engineer how trying to use AI to modernize…
GCC Developers Considering Whether To Accept AI/LLM-Generated Patches
The GNU Compiler Collection (GCC) developers now have a need to set a policy whether AI / Large…
Exciting Laptop & Gaming Handheld Device Improvements Merged For Linux 6.19
Merged during this second week of the Linux 6.19 feature merge window were the many x86 platform driver…
New Rule Forbids GNOME Shell Extensions Made Using AI Generated Code
The GNOME.org Extensions hosting for GNOME Shell extensions will no longer accept new contributions with AI-generated code. A…
Google Looks To Bring JPEG-XL Support Back To Chrome / Chromium
Back in 2022 was the surprising decision by Google that they were going to deprecate JPEG-XL image support…