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 […]