VideoLAN Publishes Dav2d For Open-Source AV2 Decoder
…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…
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Ubuntu To Ship Newer AMD ROCm Updates Via SRUs
…The blog post states they will end up shipping newer ROCm versions as Ubuntu SRUs: "With ROCm 7.1 now released in Ubuntu 26.04 LTS, we are focusing on delivering newer…
Valve Developer Improves The Linux Gaming Experience For Limited vRAM Hardware
…means some of the allocations made by games end up there rather than lower-priority background apps. Natalie Vock in a blog post outlines all the technical details on this work and…
Ubuntu 26.10 To Begin Laying Foundation For Context-Aware Desktop, Other New Features
…13 Comments Jean Baptiste Lallement of the Canonical Desktop Team today posted a roadmap of many development items they are hoping to tackle for Ubuntu 26.10 due out in October. Some…
NXP Neutron NPU Kernel Driver Blocked For Now By A Closed-Source User-Space Blob
…Unfortunately, it's now been discovered by upstream Linux kernel developers that this open-source repository ends up depending upon a binary-only library, libNeutronDriver.so . NXP engineers commented on the Linux…
Ubuntu MATE Is Continuing Despite No Ubuntu MATE 26.04 Release
…The only difference is that there was no 26.04 installer image released." The Ubuntu Discourse post by Thomas Ward ends with: "Rest easy, MATE is not going away, and you are…
GNOME Foundation Announces First Participants Of Fellowship Program
…Be Able To Boot On Apple M3 Macs - But Far From Useful For End-Users Valve Developer Posts New AMD Anti-Lag Implementation For RADV Driver Microsoft Announces Coreutils For Windows: Derived…
Ubuntu 26.10 Reaffirms Plans For Switching To Dbus-Broker
…Ubuntu developer Alessandro Astone posted today about the Dbus-Broker plans for Ubuntu 26.10 for this implementation providing not only better performance but greater reliability and scalability. The post notes the…
Rusticl Driver Ready To Go With OpenCL 3.1 Working On Radeon, Intel Iris & Zink/Vulkan
…As a very exciting development, Rusticl as Mesa's lead OpenCL driver implementation is ready to go with same-day OpenCL 3.1 support pending. Karol Herbst, Red Hat engineer and lead…
"Flatten The Pick" Linux Patches Progress For Better cgroup Scheduling While Linux Gaming
…On Friday, which coincidentally was the 22nd birthday of Phoronix , a new version of these scheduling patches were posted to the Linux kernel mailing list that can make a noticeable impact on…