Budgie 10.10 Released: Officially Migrated From X11 To Wayland The Budgie 10.10 desktop has been officially released in marking the open-source project's transition from X11 to Wayland... image
Debian 13.3 Released With Many Security & Bug Fixes Debian 13.3 is out today as the newest stable point release for Debian Trixie... image
Linux Working Around Audio Problems On The ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X For those loading Linux on the ASUS ROG Xbox Ally X gaming handheld, there is currently audio quality issues, including gaps/dropouts in audio playback. A workaround is in the process of making its way to the Linux kernel until a proper solution can be sorted out... image
ZLUDA Adds CUDA 13.1 Compatibility For Running CUDA Apps On Non-NVIDIA Hardware The current incarnation of ZLUDA continues moving along for running unmodified CUDA apps on non-NVIDIA GPUs. Released on Friday was ZLUDA 6-preview.48 with now boasting CUDA 13.1 compatibility... image
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... image
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... image
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... image
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... image
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... image
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... image