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      Linux 7.1 Looks To Support Extended Attributes On Sockets For New GNOME & systemd Functionality

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 23 hours ago

    While the Linux 7.0 feature merge window ended this past weekend and that next kernel release won't debut as stable until April, there are already features out on the horizon that are being positioned for likely merging into the Linux 7.1 kernel assuming no issues appear or objections raised by Linus Torvalds. One of the features already looking like it will be submitted for Linux 7.1 is supporting extended attributes on sockets...
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      Fwupd 2.0.20 Brings New Hardware Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Fwupd/LVFS lead developer Richard Hughes of Red Hat today released Fwupd 2.0.20 with continuing to advance firmware updating on Linux systems...
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      ZCULL Support For Nouveau + NVK Brings Some Small Performance Gains

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Merged yesterday to Mesa 26.1 for the open-source NVIDIA Vulkan driver "NVK" is ZCULL support for more efficient rendering and bringing some small performance gains to this open-source NVIDIA driver stack...
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      Intel Vulkan Driver Sees Some Minor Optimizations For DX12 Games On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Merged to Mesa 26.1-devel this week is a minor improvement to the Intel "ANV" Vulkan driver providing some slight enhancements to DirectX 12 games running on Linux by way of Valve's Steam Play with VKD3D-Proton...
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      AlmaLinux Showing Nice Growth With More Than 2M System Update Check-Ins Per Week

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    AlmaLinux as one of the leading, modern and community-minded alternatives to Red Hat Enterprise Linux (RHEL) continues enjoying very nice growth. In their 2025 Year In Review they provided a look at their growth with now having more than two million systems per week checking in for software updates...
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      GStreamer 1.28.1 Adds Whisper-Based Speech-To-Text, AV1 Stateful V4L2 Decoder Support

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Building off January's GStreamer 1.28 release with many new features, GStreamer 1.28.1 was released today as a point release bringing various fixes and minor additions to this open-source multimedia framework...
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      Firefox 149 Beta Released With Convenient Split-View Mode

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Following the Firefox 148 release with the new AI controls, Mozilla promoted Firefox 149 to beta today...
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      b4's Review TUI With AI Integration Nearing Pre-Alpha Release

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    The b4 tool used for managing patch workflows to the Linux kernel has been seeing a lot of work recently on b4 review as the text user interface (TUI) to help expedite the patch review process for the Linux kernel. The b4 review TUI has been integrating AI agent code review helpers powered by the likes of Claude Code too for trying to help enhance the efficiency for Linux kernel patch reviews. That b4 review work is quickly approaching a pre-alpha state...
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      Linux 6.18 LTS / 6.12 LTS / 6.6 LTS Support Periods Extended

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 1 day ago

    Greg Kroah-Hartman today extended the planned maintenance periods of the latest Linux 6.18, Linux 6.12, and Linux 6.6 Long Term Support (LTS) kernel series...