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      The GNOME-Aligned RustConn Connection Manager Continues Piling On More Features

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 May 2026

    One of the interesting GNOME-aligned application developments in recent months has been RustConn as a modern GTK4-based connection manager. RustConn allows managing SSH, RDP, VNC, SPICE, and a variety of other connections from this Rust-written application. It's been steadily tacking on more features and that effort continued with more features landing...
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      New NTFS Driver Sees More Fixes With Linux 7.1-rc2

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 May 2026

    One of the most prominent changes with the upcoming Linux 7.1 kernel release is the introduction of the new NTFS driver in the Linux 7.1 kernel. This new driver provides more features and better performance than the Paragon NTFS3 driver that's been in the kernel the past few years and far better off than the original NTFS read-only driver that previously was in the kernel and for which this new driver is based. Needless to say it's also a big improvement over the NTFS-3G user-space FUSE driver too...
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      Linux 7.1 Fixes Audio For The Steam Deck OLED After Being Broken 2 Years On The Upstream Kernel

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 3 May 2026

    It turns out the Steam Deck OLED gaming handheld has not had working audio support with the mainline (upstream) Linux kernel since a change in late 2023 that was merged for Linux 6.8. There was an AMD ASoC audio change that inadvertently broke audio support for the Steam Deck OLED handheld but not affecting the original LCD model. Valve's downstream Steam OS kernel has compensated for this known breakage and other distributions targeting the Steam Deck OLED have carried the patch, but now there is a proper solution upstream ahead of Linux 7.1-rc2...
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      FUSEX File-System Being Developed For Extended/Experimental Features

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 May 2026

    Miklos Szeredi of Red Hat has been developing the FUSEX file-system as an extended/experimental area for File-System in User-Space "FUSE" development...
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      AMD's GAIA Defaults To Better Model, Continued Improvements For Local AI

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 May 2026

    AMD software engineers on Friday released a new version of GAIA "Generative AI Is Awesome" as their open-source software for Windows and Linux leveraging the Lemonade SDK and aiming to make it easy to build AI agents on your PC with all local AI processing across AMD's CPUs, GPUs, and NPUs...
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      Linux 7.1-rc2 Bringing Some More Improvements/Fixes For Older AMD GPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 May 2026

    Merged on Friday ahead of the Linux 7.1-rc2 kernel release due out tomorrow were this week's batch of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) kernel graphics / display / accelerator driver fixes...
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      KDE Linux Now Using KMSCON For A Better VT Console Experience

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 May 2026

    KDE Linux continues making progress as the in-house Linux distribution to best showcase the latest KDE Plasma desktop innovations...
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      VideoLAN Publishes Dav2d For Open-Source AV2 Decoder

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 May 2026

    While the Alliance For Open Media had been aiming for the AV2 release by the end of 2025, as of right now the AV2 specification remains in a draft status. VideoLAN developers though for months have already been working on dav2d as an open-source AV2 decoder and that code was published this weekend...
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      FreeBSD 15.1 Beta Released For Early Testing

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 2 May 2026

    Following last year's release of FreeBSD 15.0, FreeBSD 15.1 is working its way toward release release in June. For kicking off the release dance, FreeBSD 15.1 Beta 1 is available today for testing...