Linux NewsFirefox 147 Beta Released With XDG Base Directory Support
With Firefox 146 released, which is exciting for delivering fractional scaling on Wayland, Firefox 147 Beta is now available and it's also quite exciting to Linux users for another reason...
Scheduler Woes: Bisecting Early Performance Regressions Found In Linux 6.19
Yesterday I noted some early performance regressions I've found on the Linux 6.19 kernel compared to Linux 6.18 LTS stable. Those initial benchmarks were on an AMD EPYC server. Since then I've seen many of the same workloads regressing similarly on an AMD Ryzen Threadripper workstation between Linux 6.18 and Linux 6.19 Git. Given the significant impact and AMD Threadripper processors always helping out to speed-up Linux kernel build times to make for a quicker and more manageable kernel bisecting experience, here is a look at some of the results for the Linux 6.19 performance regressions.
KDE Plasma 6.5.4 Desktop Environment Released with Numerous Bug Fixes
KDE Plasma 6.5.4 is now available as the fourth maintenance update to the KDE Plasma 6.5 desktop environment series with more bug fixes. Here’s what’s changed!
PeerTube 8.0 Brings a Modern Video Player and Team Channel Management
PeerTube 8.0 decentralized video platform debuts a modern Lucide player, easier imports, and long-awaited team channel management for organizations.
AMD EPYC Embedded 2005 Series Announced For BGA Zen 5 CPUs
AMD today announced their newest member of their expansive EPYC family: the EPYC Embedded 2005 series. The new AMD EPYC Embedded 2005 Series are intended primarily for networking, storage, and industrial devices while these BGA processors will likely see other interesting thin-server uses as well.
Jolla’s Community Linux Phone Surpasses Its Funding Goal
Over 3,200 backers secure the future of Jolla’s upcoming Linux phone, pushing the project beyond its initial funding milestone.
Microsoft Has Many Hyper-V Virtualization Improvements For Linux 6.19
For benefiting their Azure cloud and other users of Hyper-V virtualization at large, Microsoft has rolled out a number of feature additions and improvements for their Hyper-V kernel code in Linux 6.19...
Flock 2026 CfP open now until Feb 2nd 2026
Apply now for the Flock to Fedora 2026 Call for Proposals (CfP) at cfp.fedoraproject.org. This year, the submission deadline for the Flock CfP is Monday, February 2nd, 2026. Flock 2026 registration is open Last month we announced that we’ll be convening again in Prague for Flock 2026 in June. Everyone interested in attending can head […]
Bug-Catching "Smatch" Static Analysis On The Linux Kernel Under Threat Due To Funding Gap
For the past 15 years the Smatch static analysis tool has been routinely run for uncovering countless bugs within the Linux kernel. Dan Carpenter who authored Smatch and has been routinely analyzing the Linux kernel with it has authored more than 5,568 patches over the years to become one of the top bug fixers for the kernel. But his funding at Linaro has been cut and the project's future now in question...
Linux 6.19 Enables Per-CPU BIO Caching By Default For Helping Performance
Last week saw the main set of block and IO_uring feature patches for the Linux 6.19 merge window but some additional block subsystem material was merged on Monday. There are various NVMe updates now merged plus enabling per-CPU BIO caching by default to help with file-system performance...
F2FS Brings More Performance Optimizations To Linux 6.19
The Flash-Friendly File-System "F2FS" is enjoying more performance optimizations and other improvements for the Linux 6.19 kernel cycle...
Firefox 146 Released with Fractional Scaling Support on Linux,
Mozilla Firefox 146 is out, adding a final flurry of features to round off what’s been an interesting year for the open source browser – but is there anything good in the update? Arguably, the ‘headline’ change for Linux users is Firefox now fully supports fractional-scaling under Wayland by default. The change, Mozilla say, makes “rendering more effective” (i.e., text, icons, menus and cursors appear non-blurry, position correctly and render at the right size). ‘Fully’ is an important qualifier as Firefox already scaled well, but a parts didn’t (e.g., AI link previews would show oversized on my laptop @ 150% […]
Using MCP for Safe, Autonomous Kubernetes Troubleshooting
Explainable AI agents can now troubleshoot Kubernetes using governed tools, observability, and human approval, making automation viable in production environments. The post Using MCP for Safe, Autonomous Kubernetes Troubleshooting appeared first on LinuxInsider.
Rust-Based Project Aims To Provide Modern Thumbnails For Audio/Video Files On GNOME
Since Showtime replaced Totem as the default video player of GNOME, the desktop has lacked thumbnail capabilities for audio and video files. But to address that defect, the Rust-based gst-thumbnailers project has been in development to leverage GStreamer and paired with Rust to provide safe thumbnail generation capabilities for audio and video content...
Mesa 26.0 Lands Initial Support For Adreno Gen 8 - Including For The Snapdragon X2
The newest Mesa 26.0-devel code as of today has landed initial support for Qualcomm Adreno Gen 8 graphics into the Freedreno Gallium3D driver. The Adreno Gen 8 graphics so far are most notably used by the new Snapdragon X2 Elite laptop SoC with its X2-85 GPU as well as the new Snapdragon 8 Elite Gen 5 with Adreno 840 graphics...