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Back in 2021 on Phoronix was first to report on Intel preparing Linux patches for a "Software Defined Silicon" feature for activating extra licensed hardware features. That Software Defined Silicon support continued moving forward and was then announced as Intel On Demand with a focus on users being able to pay to activate additional accelerators found on select SKUs but not enabled by default...
Building off Friday's release of Wine 11.2 is now Wine-Staging 11.2 as this experimental/testing version of Wine with hundreds of extra patches that have yet to be introduced in upstream proper for this open-source software enabling Windows games and applications on Linux. Notable in this bi-weekly update are more patches for continuing to improve the Adobe Photoshop installer support on Linux...
Of Intel's different CPU accelerator IPs, the arguably most useful and with the greatest customer interest remains around QuickAssist Technology (QAT). Intel QAT allows offloading various compression and encryption tasks for better performance. Intel this week released QATlib 26.02 as the newest version of their user-space library for leveraging QuickAssist Technology on capable hardware...
Back in 2022 DreamWorks Animation announced they were open-sourcing their MoonRay renderer and was then published in early 2023 for this renderer that has been used in a variety of featured animated films. Since then they have continued advancing this MoonRay code via the open-source OpenMoonRay project and this week published their newest feature update...
With QEMU 10.2 that released at the end of last year is the new "MSHV" accelerator for allowing VMs to be created from a Microsoft Hyper-V guest without using nested virtualization. Last weekend at FOSDEM 2026 was a presentation on this MSHV accelerator for those interested...
Open Media Vault is a Network Attached Storage (NAS) server based on Debian Linux. With this integrated Operating System (OS), you can share media to any other device on the network. This is not a hardware solution, but a software solution that you can run on a system and share attached media, whether internal or external storage devices. Sharing Methods You can share storage devices on the network using multiple types of sharing methods: Network File System (NFS)... https://www.linux.org/threads/setting-up-open-media-vault-as-a-home-nas.59023/
Linus Torvalds has released Linux 6.19, switching decades-old AMD graphics cards to the modern amdgpu driver and adding support for larger block sizes to ext4 among the changes. The AMD driver switch brings native Vulkan support to Radeon R9 290 and HD 7000 series GPUs, while the ext4 filesystem breaks the 4KB page size limit to improve write operations. As Linus delayed the release by a week the Linux 6.19 kernel benefitted from an extended eight-week development cycle. This is not the kernel version Ubuntu 26.04 LTS will offer (that’ll be the next one, Linux 6.20/7.10), but Ubuntu users can install Linux […]
Linux Mint, MX Linux, and several other saw some exciting changes in January.
A Linux kernel developer has proposed using user-space machine learning models to assist kernel subsystems.
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With the Linux 6.19 stable kernel expected to be released tomorrow (8 February), here is a reminder about the top features to expect from this next version of the Linux kernel...
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Plasma 6.7 is shaping up to include an improved Window List widget with sorting and clearer grouping for easier window navigation.
KDE Linux developers report the project is 62% complete on its path toward a public beta release.
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