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NVIDIA 580.173.02 Linux Graphics Driver Released for GeForce 10 Series
NVIDIA released a new update to their NVIDIA 580 graphics driver for GeForce 10 Series GPUs, NVIDIA 580.173.02, to address a few bugs and improve performance in games for Linux users.
New Intel Linux Driver Patches Enable HDR Over DP MST Connections
One of the limitations of the Intel Linux driver's high dynamic range (HDR) display support is that it currently doesn't work for any DisplayPort Multi-Stream Transport "DP MST" connections, such as for daisy chaining monitors or multi-monitor docking stations. But the good news is patches are being worked on to address this Intel Linux kernel display driver shortcoming...
Tmux 3.7 Terminal Multiplexer Released with Initial Floating Pane Support
Tmux 3.7 is now available, bringing early floating pane support, copy mode line numbers, clipboard improvements, and many fixes.
DXVK 3.0 Released with Shader Compilation and D3D9 Improvements
DXVK 3.0 was released today as the latest stable version for this Vulkan-based implementation of D3D9, D3D10, and D3D11 for Linux / Wine, bringing new features and improvements for many games.
Updated Raspberry Pi OS With Linux 6.18 LTS Delivers Some Performance Benefits
Last week marked the release of an updated Raspberry Pi OS that moved to Linux 6.18 LTS from its former Linux 6.12 kernel base along with making a number of other package updates. Given the jump to the newer Long Term Support kernel and other improvements, I ran some fresh benchmarks on the Raspberry Pi 5 (Raspberry Pi 500+) to see the performance difference out of the updated operating system.
QSOE 0.1 Debuts as a QNX-Inspired Open-Source OS for RISC-V
The first QSOE release delivers a QNX-inspired open-source OS with shared userspace across two microkernel variants for 64-bit RISC-V hardware.
Linux 7.2 Drops Ancient PROFIBUS Driver: Ported From SCO Unix In 1998, Unused For Years
Linux 7.2 is continuing the trend of removing obsolete hardware drivers for which the code hasn't seen any maintenance in years and there are no believed users left of said drivers, especially those that would be running modern mainline versions of the Linux kernel. The char/misc changes merged dropped two more obsolete drivers from the Linux source tree...
Purism Announces Librem 16 as World’s Most Private and Secure Linux Laptop
Linux hardware vendor Purism announced the launch of Librem 16 as the world’s most private and secure Linux laptop designed chip-by-chip and line-by-line to respect and protect your digital life.
Coreboot 26.06 Brings Support For Intel Nova Lake, AMD Strix Halo & 31 New Boards
Coreboot 26.06 is out today as the latest quarterly feature release for this software project providing open-source system firmware support for a growing number of platforms...
Kraid: A new compiler for Panfrost
Collabora has merged Kraid into Mesa, a ground-up Rust rewrite of the Panfrost shader compiler for Arm Mali GPUs. The existing compiler, originally built for Bifrost-era hardware, had accumulated too many structural limitations to fix incrementally. Kraid replaces it with a cleaner IR, a new SSA-based register allocator, and an encoder derived from Arm-provided XML rather than years of hand-reverse-engineered descriptions.
Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 2 Released For Monthly Testing
Daily ISOs of Ubuntu 26.10 "Stonking Stingray" continue to be published, but for those preferring something a bit more regulated, out today is Ubuntu 26.10 Snapshot 2 as the second monthly ISO image...
It’s 1996 All Over Again on the New GIMP 0.54 Flatpak
Think today’s Gimp is complicated? Try the 1996 Motif version, now resurrected as a Flatpak so you can suffer for nostalgia’s sake.
