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      Focusrite Forte USB Audio Interface To Be Supported By Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 January 2026

    The Focusrite Forte 2-in, 4-out USB audio interface as a portable audio recording solution will be supported by the mainline Linux 7.0 kernel. The patches are queued in the Linux kernel's sound subsystem development tree. While a convenient little device, the Focusrite Forte is no longer manufactured but can still be found used online...
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      Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 Display Support & Old Adreno 225 Enablement For Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 January 2026

    Rob Clark this week sent out the latest MSM DRM kernel driver updates for the latest Qualcomm display/graphics enhancements ahead of next month's Linux 7.0 merge window...
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      SVT-AV1 4.0 Released With More Performance Optimizations

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 January 2026

    SVT-AV1 4.0 is out as the newest major feature release for this open-source AV1 video encoder that was originally started by Intel as an open-source project and now continuining on thanks to the Alliance For Open Media...
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      GIMP 3.0.8 Released In Advance Of GIMP 3.2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 January 2026

    While the GIMP 3.2 release is expected out soon, GIMP 3.0.8 is available tonight as what could end up being the last set of bug fixes for GIMP 3.0...
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      Wine-Staging 11.1 Adds Patches For Enabling Recent Adobe Photoshop Versions On Linux

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 25 January 2026

    Following yesterday's release of Wine 11.1 for kicking off the new post-11.0 development cycle, Wine-Staging 11.1 is now available for this experimental/testing version of Wine that present is around 254 patches over the upstream Wine state...
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      CachyOS Starts 2026 By Switching To Plasma Login Manager & Live ISO Using Wayland

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 January 2026

    The Arch Linux powered CachyOS distribution is out with its first new ISO release of 2026. This Linux distribution continues to be quite popular with Linux gamers, enthusiasts craving peak performance, and others for wanting to enjoy a polished Arch Linux desktop experience...
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      DAXFS Proposed As Newest Linux File-System

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 January 2026

    There's yet another new Linux file-system on the block: DAXFS has been announced as a new read-only open-source file-system...
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      DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.1 Released With New Override & Improvements

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 January 2026

    DXVK-NVAPI 0.9.1 is out today as this NVIDIA NVAPI implementation that is used by Valve's Steam Play (Proton) with DXVK and VKD3D-Proton. This is the important piece of the Steam Play puzzle to allow for NVIDIA DLSS, NVIDIA Reflex, PhysX, and other features for Windows games running on Linux...
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      A Decade In The Making, Time Slice Extension Could Be Merged For Linux 7.0

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 January 2026

    With the upcoming Linux 6.20~7.0 kernel cycle it looks like the time slice extension work could finally been merged, which has seen various attempts over the past decade. Time slice extension for the Linux kernel implemented using Restartable Sequences "RSEQ" allows user-space processes to request a temporary, opportunistic extension of their CPU time slice without being preempted...