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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...
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      AMD Releases MLIR-AIE 1.2 Compiler Toolchain For Targeting Ryzen AI NPUs

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 January 2026

    In addition to AMD releasing the Ryzen AI Software 1.7 release on Friday, they also published a new version of their MLIR-AIE compiler toolchain for targeting AMD Ryzen AI NPU devices with this LLVM-based MLIR-focused stack...
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      AMDGPU Driver Reverts Code For A Number Of Regressions On Linux 6.19

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 January 2026

    Merged on Friday as part of this week's DRM kernel graphics driver fixes for the week is addressing a regression affecting many different users with the Linux 6.19 development kernel...
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      GNOME's AI Assistant Newelle Adds Llama.cpp Support, Command Execution Tool

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 January 2026

    Newlle as a virtual AI assistant for the GNOME desktop with API integration for Google Gemini, OpenAI, Groq, and also local LLMs is out with a new release. Newelle has been steadily expanding its AI integration and capabilities and with the new Newelle 1.2 are yet more capabilities for those wanting AI on the GNOME desktop...
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      ASUS Armoury Driver For Linux 6.19 Picks Up Support For More ASUS Laptops

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 January 2026

    A new driver in the Linux 6.19 kernel is the ASUS Armoury driver for supporting additional functionality with the ROG Ally gaming handhelds and other ASUS ROG gaming hardware like their laptops. The ASUS Armoury driver builds off the existing ASUS WMI driver but provides some design improvements to make it better than handling it within the existing driver. There is support for adjusting the APU-allocated memory, Intel core count control for P and E cores, FHD and UHD mode switching for display panels, and other features typically only exposed via the system BIOS...
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      KDE Plasma Saw At Least 9 Crash Fixes This Week

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 January 2026

    KDE Plasma 6.6 feature development work continues winding down while Plasma 6.7 has begun seeing more feature work. This week also saw at least nine different crash fixes affecting Plasma/KWin...
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      GNU C Library 2.43 Released With More C23 Features, mseal & openat2 Functions

      news.movim.eu / Phoronix • 24 January 2026

    Version 2.43 of the GNU C Library "glibc" was released on Friday evening as the newest half-year feature update. This is a very feature packaged update and even managed to be released ahead of the 1 February release plan...