AI Assistant App For GNOME Adds MCP Server Support To Integrate With Much More Software Hitting the "1.0" milestone last summer was the GNOME AI virtual assistant app called Newelle. This third-party GNOME app has continued evolving as an AI-focused assistant on the GNOME desktop and has now rolled out MCP server support to integrate with "thousands" of other apps...

AI Assistant App For GNOME Adds MCP Server Support To Integrate With Much More Software - Phoronix

Hitting the '1.0' milestone last summer was the GNOME AI virtual assistant app called Newelle

Mesa 26.0 RADV Lands Dedicated Transfer-Only Queue Using SDMA There is another open-source Radeon Vulkan driver (RADV) improvement to look forward to in the upcoming Mesa 26.0 release that was worked on by one of Valve's Linux graphics driver developers...

Mesa 26.0 RADV Lands Dedicated Transfer-Only Queue Using SDMA - Phoronix

There is another open-source Radeon Vulkan driver (RADV) improvement to look forward to in the upcoming Mesa 26.0 release that was worked on by one...

Linux 6.19-rc5 To Fix Broken Nouveau Driver With Newer NVIDIA GPUs Now past the end-of-year holidays, this round of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) fixes for the in-development Linux 6.19 are a bit more meaningful following those light holiday weeks. Sent out today were the DRM fixes for Linux 6.19-rc5 that includes a fix for broken support for newer NVIDIA GPUs on the Nouveau open-source driver...

Linux 6.19-rc5 To Fix Broken Nouveau Driver With Newer NVIDIA GPUs - Phoronix

Now past the end-of-year holidays, this round of Direct Rendering Manager (DRM) fixes for the in-development Linux 6.19 are a bit more meaningful f...

Qualcomm Sends Out Linux Patches For RAS Support On RISC-V For Reporting Hardware Errors The latest work by Qualcomm on the RISC-V CPU architecture is sending out their first non-RFC patch series for enabling Reliability, Availability and Serviceability (RAS) support by making use of the RISC-V RERI specification. This RISC-V RAS support is useful for conveying hardware errors to users and will be especially important with future RISC-V Linux servers...

Qualcomm Sends Out Linux Patches For RAS Support On RISC-V For Reporting Hardware Errors - Phoronix

The latest work by Qualcomm on the RISC-V CPU architecture is sending out their first non-RFC patch series for enabling Reliability, Availability a...

Canonical Builds Steam Snap For Ubuntu ARM64 Leveraging FEX Canonical is making it easier for ARM64 Ubuntu users like those on the NVIDIA DGX Spark to do a bit of gaming with Steam. Canonical engineers have assembled a Steam Snap for 64-bit ARM that comes complete with the FEX emulator for running Windows/Linux x86-based games on ARM64 Linux...

Canonical Builds Steam Snap For Ubuntu ARM64 Leveraging FEX - Phoronix

Canonical is making it easier for ARM64 Ubuntu users like those on the NVIDIA DGX Spark to do a bit of gaming with Steam

Mesa 26.0 Now Supports GPU Hardware Replay With The Intel Xe Kernel Driver The Intel Mesa graphics drivers have supported a GPU hardware replay feature for making it easier to reproduce issues. But until now that functionality has only worked with the i915 kernel driver while for Mesa 26.0 the Intel Xe driver will also be supported...

Mesa 26.0 Now Supports GPU Hardware Replay With The Intel Xe Kernel Driver - Phoronix

The Intel Mesa graphics drivers have supported a GPU hardware replay feature for making it easier to reproduce issues

NVIDIA Optimizes Printing Of Linux Memory Stats For 11% System Time Savings A NVIDIA engineer restructuring some of the printf-related code within the memory resource controller "memcg" statistics printing code to reduce the system time by 11% for dumping those stats...

NVIDIA Optimizes Printing Of Linux Memory Stats For 11% System Time Savings - Phoronix

A NVIDIA engineer restructuring some of the printf-related code within the memory resource controller 'memcg' statistics printing code to...

Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation" The Linux kernel developers for months now have been debating proposed guidelines for tool-generated submissions to the Linux kernel. As part of the "tools", the main motivator for this documentation has been around the era of AI and large language models with coding assistants and more. Torvalds made some remarks on the Linux kernel mailing list around his belief in focusing the document…

Linus Torvalds: "The AI Slop Issue Is *NOT* Going To Be Solved With Documentation" - Phoronix

The Linux kernel developers for months now have been debating proposed guidelines for tool-generated submissions to the Linux kernel

Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver Is On The Verge Of Another Big Ray-Tracing Performance Gain Natalie Vock as one of the open-source developers on Valve's Linux graphics team has been spearheading another big ray-tracing performance improvement for the AMD Radeon Vulkan driver. RADV ray-tracing performance improved a lot in 2025 but it's looking like 2026 could be even more exciting...

Radeon RADV Vulkan Driver Is On The Verge Of Another Big Ray-Tracing Performance Gain - Phoronix

Natalie Vock as one of the open-source developers on Valve's Linux graphics team has been spearheading another big ray-tracing performance imp...

All Fedora 44 KDE Variants To Use Plasma Login Manager Rather Than SDDM The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved a Fedora 44 change for switching all KDE variants away from using the SDDM display manager to instead use the newer Plasma Login Manager...

All Fedora 44 KDE Variants To Use Plasma Login Manager Rather Than SDDM - Phoronix

The Fedora Engineering and Steering Committee (FESCo) has approved a Fedora 44 change for switching all KDE variants away from using the SDDM displ...