Linux 6.18 Will Be A Big Improvement For Servers Encountering DDoS Attacks
A set of patches merged via the networking pull request for the Linux 6.18 will help servers better…
Bcachefs Announces First-Tier Arch & NixOS Support, Post-Experimental Release EOY
Ahead of the stable Linux 6.17 kernel release expected in the coming hours, Bcachefs lead developer Kent Overstreet…
Arm Announces Lumex Platform With C1 CPUs Boasting SME2, Mali G1-Ultra GPU
Arm this evening lifted the lid on Lumex, their new compute subsystem platform that is purpose-built around AI…
Linux 6.17-rc3 Released: “A Bit Larger Than Usual”
Linux 6.17 is one step closer to release with Linus Torvalds having issued Linux 6.17-rc3 already today to…
AMD Linux Driver Prepares For Radeon RDNA4 “Kicker”
A few new firmware files were upstreamed today to the linux-firmware.git repository for supporting a new GFX12.0.1 (RDNA4)…
Additional Intel Linux Drivers Left Orphaned & Maintainers Let Go
Well, it’s an unpleasant afternoon in Linux land with more signs of the ongoing impact from Intel’s corporate-wide…
GNOME AI Virtual Assistant “Newelle” Reaches Version 1.0 Milestone
Newelle is a virtual AI assistant developed for the GNOME desktop that supports voice chat and can handle…
Steam Survey For July Shows Linux Use Approaching 3%
Back in February Steam on Linux was at a 1.45% marketshare, then was corrected to 2.33% for Linux…
Threadripper 9000 Series Available On 31 July, 9980X For $4999 USD
Last month AMD detailed the Ryzen Threadripper 9000 series as the new Zen 5 Threadrippers. After the Threadripper…
Linux 6.16-rc7 Bringing Fix For Possible Bogus/Miscalculated Load Averages
Among the fixes merged today ahead of Linus Torvalds releasing the Linux 6.16-rc7 test kernel release is a…
Radeon Vulkan Driver’s Emulated Ray-Tracing Scores A ~40% Improvement For Quake II RTX
In addition to Mesa’s open-source Radeon Vulkan driver “RADV” making some nice performance improvements for modern AMD GPUs…
Rust-Written NOVA Open-Source NVIDIA Driver Being Further Built Out In Linux 6.17
For Linux 6.17 in addition to Intel enabling SR-IOV for Battlemage graphics cards and many other big Intel…